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Improving medical experts’ efficiency of misinformation detection: an exploratory study

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Fighting medical disinformation in the era of the pandemic is an increasingly important problem. Today, automatic systems for assessing the credibility of medical information do not offer sufficient precision, so human supervision and the involvement of medical expert annotators are required. Our work aims to optimize the utilization of medical experts’ time. We also equip them with tools for semi-automatic initial verification of the credibility of the annotated content. We introduce a general framework for filtering medical statements that do not require manual evaluation by medical experts, thus focusing annotation efforts on non-credible medical statements. Our framework is based on the construction of filtering classifiers adapted to narrow thematic categories. This allows medical experts to fact-check and identify over two times more non-credible medical statements in a given time interval without applying any changes to the annotation flow. We verify our results across a broad spectrum of medical topic areas. We perform quantitative, as well as exploratory analysis on our output data. We also point out how those filtering classifiers can be modified to provide experts with different types of feedback without any loss of performance.

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Category:
Articles
Type:
artykuły w czasopismach
Published in:
WORLD WIDE WEB-INTERNET AND WEB INFORMATION SYSTEMS no. 12,
ISSN: 1386-145X
Language:
English
Publication year:
2022
Bibliographic description:
Nabożny A., Balcerzak B., Morzy M., Wierzbicki A., Savov P., Warpechowski K.: Improving medical experts’ efficiency of misinformation detection: an exploratory study// WORLD WIDE WEB-INTERNET AND WEB INFORMATION SYSTEMS -Vol. 12,iss. 1 (2022), s.26-
DOI:
Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1007/s11280-022-01084-5
Sources of funding:
  • Free publication
Verified by:
Gdańsk University of Technology

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