Online knowledge repositories typically rely on their users or dedicated
editors to evaluate the reliability of their content. These evaluations can be
viewed as noisy measurements of both information reliability and information
source trustworthiness. Can we leverage these noisy evaluations, often biased,
to distill a robust, unbiased and interpretable measure of both notions?
In this paper, we argue that the temporal traces left by these noisy
evaluations give cues on the reliability of the information and the
trustworthiness of the sources. Then, we propose a temporal point process
modeling framework that links these temporal traces to robust, unbiased and
interpretable notions of information reliability and source trustworthiness.
Furthermore, we develop an efficient convex optimization procedure to learn the
parameters of the model from historical traces. Experiments on real-world data
gathered from Wikipedia and Stack Overflow show that our modeling framework
accurately predicts evaluation events, provides an interpretable measure of
information reliability and source trustworthiness, and yields interesting
insights about real-world events.Comment: Accepted at 26th World Wide Web conference (WWW-17
