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Overview of EXIST 2023: sEXism Identification in Social neTworks
The paper describes the lab on Sexism identification in social networks (EXIST 2023) that will be hosted at the CLEF 2023 conference. …
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RMIT CIDDA IR at the TREC 2022 Fair Ranking Track
This report describes the participation of the RMIT CIDDA IR group at the TREC 2022 Fair Ranking Track (Task 1). We submitted 8 runs …
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A Crowdsourcing Methodology to Measure Algorithmic Bias in Black-box Systems: A Case Study with COVID-related Searches
Commercial software systems are typically opaque with regard to their inner workings. This makes it challenging to understand the …
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BUM at CheckThat! 2022: A Composite Deep Learning Approach to Fake News Detection using Evidence Retrieval
We detail a deep learning approach based on the transformer architecture for performing fake news detection. The proposed approach is …
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ITTC @ TREC 2021 Clinical Trials Track
This paper describes the submissions of the Natural Language Processing (NLP) team from the Australian Research Council Industrial …
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Ranking Interruptus: When Truncated Rankings Are Better and How to Measure That
Most of information retrieval effectiveness evaluation metrics assume that systems appending irrelevant documents at the bottom of the …
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RMIT at TREC 2021 Fair Ranking Track
This report describes the data, the assumptions, methodology, and our results involved in the participation at the TREC 2021 Fair …
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Where Do Queries Come From?
Where do queries – the words searchers type into a search box – come from? The Information Retrieval community understands …
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Accessing Media Via an Audio-only Communication Channel: A Log Analysis
Studies of interaction log analysis are a common tool to investigate behavioural data and contribute to insights into users’ …
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Accessing Media Via an Audio-only Communication Channel: A Log Analysis
The Meant, the Said, and the Understood: Conversational Argument Search and Cognitive Biases
Many questions of public interest do not have a single answer but come with a set of choices, each of which with its pros and cons.An …
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The Meant, the Said, and the Understood: Conversational Argument Search and Cognitive Biases