ROMCIR 2023: 3rd International Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation Through Credible Information Retrieval Co-located with ECIR 2023: the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval Dublin, Ireland, April 2, 2023 |
Conference website | https://romcir.disco.unimib.it/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=romcir2023 |
Abstract registration deadline | January 3, 2023 |
Submission deadline | January 10, 2023 |
General Description
The third edition of the ROMCIR Workshop aims at studying how to provide access to users to (topically) relevant and genuine information, to mitigate the information disorder phenomenon with respect to distinct domains. By “information disorder” we mean all forms of communication pollution, from misinformation made out of ignorance, to the intentional sharing of false content. In this context, all those approaches that can serve to assess the genuineness of information circulating online and in social media in particular find their place.
Given that the problem in recent years has been addressed from various points of view (e.g., fake news detection, bot detection, information genuineness assessment, …), the purpose of this Workshop proposed at ECIR 2023 is to consider these issues in the context of Information Access and Retrieval, also considering related Artificial Intelligence fields such as Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Computer Vision, Machine and Deep Learning, etc.
Submission Guidelines
The Workshop solicits the sending of two types of contributions relevant to the Workshop and suitable to generate discussion:
- Original, unpublished contributions (pre-prints submitted to ArXiv are eligible) that will be included in an open-access post-proceedings volume of CEUR Workshop Proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/), indexed by both Scopus and DBLP.
- Already published or preliminary work that will not be included in the post-proceedings volume.
All submissions will undergo single-blind peer review by the Program Committee.
- Submissions must be at least:
- 10 pages long (regular papers)
- between 5 and 9 pages long (short papers)
- According to the CEUR instructions:
- A regular paper has at least 10 “standard” pages (1 standard page = 2500 characters) and an appropriate number of references. It shall contain enough substance that it can be cited in other publications.
- A short paper is still a paper with references but has between 5-9 “standard” pages.
- Further info: http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#PUBLISH-RULES
- We recommend that authors use the new CEUR-ART style for writing papers to be published:
- An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available at: https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt
- An offline version with the style files including DOCX template files is available at: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip
- The paper must contain, as the name of the conference: ROMCIR 2022: The 3rd Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval, held as part of ECIR 2023: the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval, April 2-6, 2023, Dublin, Ireland
- The title of the paper should follow the regular capitalization of English
- Please, choose the single-column template
- According to CEUR-WS policy, the papers will be published under a CC BY 4.0 license
- If the paper is accepted, authors will be asked to sign (at pen) an author agreement with CEUR:
- In case you do not employ Third-Party Material (TPM) in your draft, sign the document at http://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-ntp.pdf?ver=2020-03-02
- If you do use TPM, the agreement can be found at http://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-tp.pdf?ver=2020-03-02
- Please submit an anonymized version of the submission (do not indicate the names of authors and institutions and cite your work in an impersonal way)
List of Topics
- Access to genuine information
- Bias detection
- Bot/spam/troll detection
- Computational fact-checking
- Crowdsourcing for information genuineness assessment
- Deep fakes
- Disinformation/misinformation detection
- Evaluation strategies to assess information genuineness
- Fake news/review detection
- Harassment/bullying/hate speech detection
- Information polarization in online communities, echo chambers
- Propaganda identification/analysis
- Retrieval of genuine information
- Security, privacy, and information genuineness
- Sentiment/emotional analysis
- Stance detection
- Trust and reputation
- Societal reaction to misinformation
Committees
Organizing Committee
- Marinella Petrocchi, IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy (Organizer)
- Marco Viviani, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy (Organizer)
- Rishabh Upadhyay, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy (Publicity and Proceedings Chair)
Program Committee
- Rino Falcone, Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies – National Research Council, Italy
- Carlos A. Iglesias, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
- Petr Knoth, Open University, UK
- Udo Kruschwitz, University of Regensburg, Germany
- Yelena Mejova, ISI Foundation, Italy
- Preslav Nakov, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
- Symeon Papadopoulos, Centre for Research and Technology, Greece
- Marinella Petrocchi, Institute of Informatics and Telematics – National Research Council, Italy
- Francesco Pierri, Polytechnic University of Milan
- Manuel Pratelli, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy
- Fabio Saracco, Enrico Fermi Study and Research Center (CREF), Italy
- Marco Viviani, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
- Arkaitz Zubiaga, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Special Issue
- To be communicated
Venue
The conference will be held in Dublin, Ireland, co-located with ECIR 2023: the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to marinella.petrocchi@iit.cnr.it, marco.viviani@unimib.it, rishabh.upadhyay@unimib.it