[agents] CFP: Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval (ROMCIR at ECIR 2021)

[Marco Viviani]

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*ROMCIR 2021: Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information
Retrieval*

        Workshop @ ECIR 2021 (*43rd European Conference on Information
Retrieval*)

                                          Lucca, Italy, March 28 - April 1,
2021

                                                  *     (ONLINE EVENT)*

                                         https://romcir2021.disco.unimib.it/

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The central topic of the
*ROMCIR (Reducing Online Misinformation through CredibleInformation
Retrieval)* 2021 workshop, as part of the satellite events of the
*ECIR(European Conference on Information Retrieval)* 2021 conference,
concerns providing
access to users to credible and/or verified information, to mitigate the
information disorder
phenomenon. By "information disorder"  we mean all forms of communication
pollution,
from misinformation made out of ignorance, to intentional sharing of false
content. In this
context, all those approaches that can serve to the assessment of the
credibility of
information circulating online and in social media, in particular, find
their place.

This topic is very broad, as it concerns different contents (e.g., Web
pages, news,
reviews, medical information, online accounts, etc.), different Web and
social media
platforms (e.g., microblogging platforms, social networking services, social
question-answering systems, etc.), and different purposes (e.g.,
identifying false
information, accessing information based on its credibility, retrieving
credible
information, etc.).

For this reason, the *themes of interest* include, but are not limited to,
the following:

   - Access to credible information
   - Bias detection
   - Bot/Spam/Troll detection
   - Computational fact-checking
   - Crowdsourcing for credibility
   - Deep fakes
   - Disinformation/Misinformation detection
   - Evaluation strategies to assess information credibility
   - Fake news detection
   - Fake reviews detection
   - Filter bubbles/Echo chambers
   - Harassment/bullying
   - Hate-speech detection
   - Information polarization in online communities
   - Propaganda identification/analysis
   - Retrieval of credible information
   - Security, privacy, and credibility
   - Sentiment/Emotional analysis
   - Stance detection
   - Trust and Reputation systems (to mitigate the effects of
   disinformation)
   - Understanding and guiding the societal reaction in the presence of
   disinformation

Data-driven approaches, supported by *publicly available datasets*, are
more than welcome.

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*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 a *double-blind peer review* by the program
committee.

Submissions are to be done electronically through the *EasyChair* at:

- https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=romcir2021

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*INSTRUCTIONS*

Submissions must be at least:

- *10 pages* long (*regular papers*)
- *between 5 and 9 pages* long (*short papers*)

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 2021:
Workshop on Reducing
Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval, held as part
of ECIR 2021:
the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval, March 28 – April
1, 2021, Lucca,
Italy (Online Event).

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*
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en).

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).

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*IMPORTANT DATES / Anywhere on Earth (AoE)*

*Abstract Submission Deadline*: *December 22, 2020*
*Submission Deadline*: *January 04, 2021*
*Decision Notifications*: *Feb 5, 2021*
*Early Registration Deadline*: *Feb 10, 2021*
*Camera-ready*: *March 01, 2021*
*Conference*: *March 28 - April 1, 2021*

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*ORGANIZERS*

   - *Fabio Saracco*, IMT School For Advanced Studies Lucca
   - *Marco Viviani*, University of Milano-Bicocca

Any *questions* about submissions can be emailed to:

   - fabio.saracco at imtlucca.it
   - marco.viviani at unimib.it

URL: https://romcir2021.disco.unimib.it/

-- 
*Marco Viviani* (Assistant Professor)
University of Milano-Bicocca
Department of Informatics, Systems, and Communication (DISCo)
Viale Sarca, 336 - 20126 Milan (Italy)
e-mail: marco.viviani at unimib.it
url: http://www.ir.disco.unimib.it/people/marco-viviani/
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