no code implementations • 15 Apr 2023 • Edoardo Di Paolo, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi
Online Social Networks have revolutionized how we consume and share information, but they have also led to a proliferation of content not always reliable and accurate.
no code implementations • 30 Mar 2023 • Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro, Angelo Spognardi, Maurizio Tesconi, Marinella Petrocchi
The science of social bots seeks knowledge and solutions to one of the most debated forms of online misinformation.
no code implementations • 23 Nov 2021 • Stefano Cresci, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Stefano Tognazzi
Adversarial examples are inputs to a machine learning system that result in an incorrect output from that system.
no code implementations • 21 Jul 2017 • Michela Fazzolari, Vittoria Cozza, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi
In this paper, we focus on online reviews and employ artificial intelligence tools, taken from the cognitive computing field, to help understanding the relationships between the textual part of the review and the assigned numerical score.
no code implementations • 13 Mar 2017 • Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Maurizio Tesconi
We build upon digital DNA and the similarity between groups of users to characterize both genuine accounts and spambots.
no code implementations • 7 Mar 2016 • Vittoria Cozza, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi
We move from the intuition that the quality of content of medical Web documents is affected by features related with the specific domain.
no code implementations • 30 Jan 2016 • Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Maurizio Tesconi
We propose a strikingly novel, simple, and effective approach to model online user behavior: we extract and analyze digital DNA sequences from user online actions and we use Twitter as a benchmark to test our proposal.
no code implementations • 14 Sep 2015 • Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Maurizio Tesconi
$\textit{Fake followers}$ are those Twitter accounts specifically created to inflate the number of followers of a target account.
no code implementations • 19 Jun 2013 • Giuseppe Ateniese, Giovanni Felici, Luigi V. Mancini, Angelo Spognardi, Antonio Villani, Domenico Vitali
Machine Learning (ML) algorithms are used to train computers to perform a variety of complex tasks and improve with experience.