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Marcos Fernández Pichel

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Marcos Fernández Pichel

2025
Query Smarter, Trust Better? Exploring Search Behaviours for Verifying News Accuracy
Author/s: David Elsweiler, Samy Ateia, Markus Bink, Gregor Donabauer, Marcos Fernández-Pichel, Alexander Frummet, Udo Kruschwitz, David E. Losada, Bernd Ludwig, Selina Meyer, Noel Pascual-Presa
Congress · 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Padua, Italia. 2025
Rated A++, Class 1 in GGS
Generating Effective Health-Related Queries for Promoting Reliable Search Results
Author/s: Xiana Carrera, Marcos Fernández-Pichel, David E. Losada
Congress · 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Padua, Italia. 2025
Rated A++, Class 1 in GGS
DepreSym: A Depression Symptom Annotated Corpus and the Role of Large Language Models as Assessors of Psychological Markers
Author/s: Anxo Pérez, Marcos Fernández-Pichel, Javier Parapar, David E. Losada
Article · Language Resources and Evaluation, 2025
Provisionally Ranked Q1
Evaluating Search Engines and Large Language Models for Answering Health Questions
Author/s: Marcos Fernández-Pichel, Juan C. Pichel, David E. Losada
Article · npj Digital Medicine, 2025
Provisionally Ranked Q1
2024
The Difficulty of Misinformation Labelling: A Case Study for Radon Gas-Related Searches
Author/s: Noel Pascual-Presa, Marcos Fernández-Pichel, David Enrique Losada, Berta García-Orosa, Paula Martínez-Graña, Lucía Ortigueira-Piñeiro
Congress · XL Congreso Internacional de la SEPLN. Valladolid, España. 2024
Web Search or Conversation with an Artificial Intelligence? Analysis of Misinformation and Relevance in the Case of Radon Gas
Author/s: Noel Pascual-Presa, Marcos Fernández-Pichel, David E. Losada, Berta García-Orosa
Article · El Profesional de la Información, 2024
Large Language Models for Binary Health-Related Question Answering: A Zero- and Few-Shot Evaluation
Author/s: Marcos Fernández-Pichel, David E. Losada and Juan C. Pichel
Congress · 24th International Conference on Computational Science. Malaga, España. 2024
Inteligencia Artificial y Métodos Big Data para el estudio masivo de datos en Internet: Nuevas metodologías para el análisis de información sanitaria en línea
Author/s: Noel Pascual-Presa, Marcos Fernández-Pichel, Berta García-Orosa, David E. Losada, Paula Martínez-Graña
Congress · IX Congreso AE-IC: Comunicación e Innovación Sostenible. Murcia, España. 2024
Exploring the Challenges of Behaviour Change Language Classification: A Study on Semi-Supervised Learning and the Impact of Pseudo-Labelled Data
Author/s: Selina Meyer, Marcos Fernández-Pichel, David Elsweiser, David Losada
Congress · First Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ LREC-COLING 2024. Turín, Italia. 2024
Semi-Supervised Learning in the Field of Conversational Agents and Motivational Interviewing
Author/s: Gergana Rosenova, Marcos Fernández-Pichel, Selina Meyer, David E. Losada
Article · Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 2024
Provisionally Ranked Q1
LudoTrack: Web Mining, Search Technologies and Natural Language Processing for the Early Detection of Pathological Gambling
Author/s: David E. Losada, Nelly Condori-Fernández and Marcos Fernández-Pichel
Congress · 18th Research Challenges in Information Science. Guimaraes, Portugal. 2024
Rated B in ICORE
A user study on people’s perception to the credibility of online health information
Author/s: Marcos Fernández-Pichel, Markus Bink, David E. Losada and David Elsweiler
Congress · ROMCIR 2024: The 4th Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval. Glasgow, Escocia. 2024
DepressMind: A Depression Surveillance System for Social Media Analysis
Author/s: Roque Fernández-Iglesias, Marcos Fernández-Pichel, Mario Ezra Aragón, and David E. Losada
Congress · 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Malta, Malta. 2024
Rated A, Class 2 in GGS
An Unsupervised Perplexity-Based Method for Boilerplate Removal
Author/s: Marcos Fernández-Pichel, Manuel Prada-Corral, David E. Losada, Juan C. Pichel, Pablo Gamallo
Article · Natural Language Engineering, 2024
Provisionally Ranked Q1Download available
2023
Technologies for extracting and analysing the credibility of health-related online content
Author/s: Marcos Fernández-Pichel · Tutor: Juan Carlos Pichel Campos
Thesis · 2023-12-18
Inteligencia Artificial para el análisis de información sobre riesgos para la salud en Internet
Author/s: Noel Pascual Presa, Marcos Fernández-Pichel, David E. Losada, Berta García-Orosa, Paula Martínez Graña
Congress · XV Congreso Internacional de Comunicación Digital y Ciberperiodismo. Leoia, España. 2023
Health Information on the Internet: Relevant Search Results about Radon
Author/s: Noel Pascual Presa, Lucía Ortigueira Piñeiro, Noemí Fernández Folgueiro, David E. Losada, Berta García-Orosa, Marcos Fernández-Pichel
Congress · VIII Congreso Internacional de Estudios sobre Medios de Comunicación. Madrid, España. 2023
Personality trait analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic: a comparative study on social media
Author/s: Marcos Fernández-Pichel, Mario Ezra Aragón, Julián Saborido-Patiño, David E. Losada
Article · Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 2023
Ranked Q1
Improving the Reliability of Health Information Credibility Assessments
Author/s: Marcos Fernández-Pichel, Selina Meyer, Markus Bink, Alexander Frummet, David E. Losada, David Elsweiler
Congress · 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR). Dublin, Irland. 2023
Rated A in ICORERated A-, Class 2 in GGS
2022
CiTIUS at the TREC 2022 Health Misinformation Track
Author/s: Marcos Fernández-Pichel, Manuel Prada-Corral, David E. Losada and Juan C. Pichel
Congress · 31st Text Retrieval Conference (TREC). online, online. 2022
Do we still need Human Assessors? Prompt based GPT-3 User Simulation in Conversational AI
Author/s: Selina Meyer, David Elsweiler, Bernd Ludwig, Marcos Fernández-Pichel and David E. Losada
Congress · 4TH International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces. Glasgow,, Scotland. 2022
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A Multistage Retrieval System for Health-related Misinformation Detection
Author/s: Marcos Fernández-Pichel, David E. Losada, Juan C. Pichel
Article · Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2022
Ranked Q1
Social Minder: a tool for social media monitoring and its use for detecting COVID-19 misinformation
Author/s: Marcos Fernández-Pichel, David E. Losada, Juan C. Pichel
Congress · Joint Conference of the Information Retrieval Communities in Europe. Toulouse, France. 2022
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2021
CiTIUS at the TREC 2021 Health Misinformation Track
Author/s: Marcos Fernández-Pichel, Manuel Prada-Corral, David E. Losada, Juan C. Pichel and Pablo Gamallo
Congress · 30th Text REtrieval Conference. Gaithersburg, Maryland, EEUU. 2021
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Comparing Traditional and Neural Approaches for detecting Health-related Misinformation
Author/s: Marcos Fernández-Pichel, David E. Losada, Juan C. Pichel, David Elsweiler
Congress · Conference and Lab of the Evaluation Forum 2021. Bucharest, Romania. 2021
Estimating the Reliability of Health-related Search Results
Author/s: Marcos Fernández-Pichel
Congress · 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Online, . 2021
Rated A* in ICORERated A++, Class 1 in GGS
Colaboración entre docentes de una universidad alemana y una española para el desarrollo de seminarios prácticos acerca de la credibilidad de la información
Author/s: Marcos Fernández-Pichel, David Elsweiler, David E. Losada, Juan C. Pichel
Congress · XXVII Jornadas sobre la Enseñanza Universitaria de la Informática. Valencia, España. 2021
Reliability Prediction for Health-related Content: A Replicability Study
Author/s: Marcos Fernández-Pichel, David E. Losada, Juan C. Pichel, David Elsweiler
Congress · European Conference on Information Retrieval. Lucca, Italia. 2021
Rated A in ICORERated A-, Class 2 in GGS
2020
CiTIUS at the TREC 2020 Health Misinformation Track
Author/s: Marcos Fernández-Pichel, David E. Losada, Juan C. Pichel, and David Elsweiler
Congress · Text Retrieval Conference. Gaithersburg, United States. 2020
eXtream: a System for Real-time Monitoring of Dynamic Web Sources
Author/s: Marcos Fernández-Pichel, Rodrigo Martínez-Castaño, David E. Losada and Juan C. Pichel
Congress · Joint Conference of the Information Retrieval Communities in Europe. Toulouse, France. 2020