[agents] [CFP - ECIR 2021 / ROMCIR] Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval Workshop

[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
Credible
Information 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/
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