EDBT 2026 Demo / reviewers in the wild / expert
Noel Pascual-Presa
dblp:392/0397
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0002-9091-7631ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Information retrieval · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Information retrieval
query formulation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Query Smarter, Trust Better? Exploring Search Behaviours for Verifying News Accuracy · SIGIR 2025 |
Information retrieval › user behavior
search behavior |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Query Smarter, Trust Better? Exploring Search Behaviours for Verifying News Accuracy · SIGIR 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
user study · 0.9large language model simulation · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Query Smarter, Trust Better? Exploring Search Behaviours for Verifying News AccuracyabstractWhile it is often assumed that searching for information to evaluate misinformation will help identify false claims, recent work suggests that search behaviours can instead reinforce belief in misleading news, particularly when users generate queries using vocabulary from the source articles. Our research explores how different query generation strategies affect news verification and whether the way people search influences the accuracy of their information evaluation. A mixed-methods approach was used, consisting of three parts: (1) an analysis of existing data to understand how search behaviour influences trust in fake news (2) a simulation of query generation strategies using a Large Language Model (LLM) to assess the impact of different query formulations on search result quality, and (3) a user study to examine how 'Boost' interventions in interface design can guide users to adopt more effective query strategies. The results show that search behaviour significantly affects trust in news, with successful searches involving multiple queries and yielding higher-quality results. Queries inspired by different parts of a news article produced search results of varying quality, and weak initial queries improved when reformulated using full SERP information. Although 'Boost' interventions had limited impact, the study suggests that interface design encouraging users to thoroughly review search results can enhance query formulation. This study highlights the importance of query strategies in evaluating news and proposes that interface design can play a key role in promoting more effective search practices, serving as one component of a broader set of interventions to combat misinformation. 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 |
SIGIR | 11 |