[agents] [CFP][ECIR2022] ROMCIR 2022: The 2nd International Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval

[Marco Viviani]

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ROMCIR 2022: The 2nd International Workshop on Reducing Online
Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval

Stavanger, Norway, April 10, 2022

Conference website: https://romcir2022.disco.unimib.it/

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=romcir2022

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***AIM AND THEMES***

Within the ECIR 2022 conference (https://ecir2022.org/), the second edition
of the ROMCIR workshop is particularly focused on discussing and addressing
issues related to reducing misinformation through Information Retrieval
solutions. Hence, the central topic of the workshop 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 and 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 in the IR field or related fields, supported by
publicly available datasets, are more than welcome.

***CONTRIBUTIONS***

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 double-blind peer review by the program
committee.

Submissions are to be done electronically through the EasyChair at:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=romcir2022

***SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS***

Submissions must be:

- no more than 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 2022: The
2nd Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information
Retrieval, held as part of ECIR 2022: the 44th European Conference on
Information Retrieval, April 10-14, 2022, Stavanger, Norway

- 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)

***IMPORTANT DATES***

- Abstract Submission Deadline: January 03, 2022
- Paper Submission Deadline: January 10, 2022
- Decision Notifications: February 11, 2022
- Workshop day: April 10, 2022

***ORGANIZERS***

The following people contribute to the workshop in various capacities and
roles:

*Workshop Chairs*

- Marinella Petrocchi (https://www.iit.cnr.it/en/marinella.petrocchi/),
IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy
- Marco Viviani (https://ikr3.disco.unimib.it/people/marco-viviani/),
University of Milano-Bicocca

*Proceedings Chair*

- Rishabh Upadhyay, University of Milano-Bicocca

*Program Committee*

- Rino Falcone, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies-CNR, Rome,
Italy
- Carlos A. Iglesias, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Petr Knoth, The Open University, London, UK
- Udo Kruschwitz, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
- Yelena Mejova, ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy
- Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Doha, Qatar
- Symeon Papadopoulos, Information Technologies Institute (ITI),
Thessaloniki, Greece
- Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
- Marinella Petrocchi, IIT – CNR – Istituto di Informatica e Telematica,
Pisa, Italy
- Adrian Popescu, CEA LIST, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València, València, Spain
- Fabio Saracco, IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy
- Marco Viviani, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
- Xinyi Zhou, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
- Arkaitz Zubiaga, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

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*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: https://ikr3.disco.unimib.it/people/marco-viviani/
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