[agents] [3rd CfP][ECIR 2025] ROMCIR 2025: The 5th International Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval

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[Apologies for multiple postings][ECIR 2025][ROMCIR 2025]
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* ROMCIR 2025*: *The 5th International Workshop on Reducing Online
Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval*

Co-located with ECIR 2025: The 47th European Conference on Information
Retrieval

Lucca, Italy | April 10, 2025

Workshop website: https://romcir.disco.unimib.it

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=romcir2025
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* GENERAL DESCRIPTION*
The fifth edition of ROMCIR concerns providing access to users to
(topically) relevant and factually accurate information, to
mitigate the human-generated or AI-generated information disorder
phenomenon concerning distinct domains.
By "information disorder" we mean all forms of communication pollution,
from misinformation made out of ignorance,
automatically built based on biased content, to intentional sharing of
false content (generated both manually and automatically).

In this context, all those approaches that can serve to assess the factual
accuracy 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.), different purposes (e.g., identifying false
information, accessing information based on its truthfulness, retrieving
truthful information, etc.), and different open issues
related in particular to AI (e.g., explainability of search results,
assessment of the truthfulness of automatically generated
content, generative models to support IRSs, etc.).
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*THEMES*
The themes of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

*  Access to and retrieval of truthful information
*  Bot/spam/troll detection
*  Computational fact-checking
*  Credibility assessment of online documents
*  Crowdsourcing for information truthfulness assessment
*  Disinformation/misinformation/bias detection
*  Evaluation strategies to assess information truthfulness
*  Generative models and information truthfulness assessment
*  Human-in-the-loop misinformation detection
*  Information polarization in online communities, echo chambers
*  Propaganda identification/analysis
*  Retrieval of credible and truthful information
*  Security, privacy, and information truthfulness
*  Societal reaction to misinformation
*  Stance detection
*  Trust and reputation

Data-driven approaches, supported by publicly available datasets, are more
than welcome.
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*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 SINGLE-BLIND peer review by the Program
Committee.

Submissions are to be done electronically through the EasyChair at:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=romcir2025
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* SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS*
Submissions must be:

*  *Regular papers*: between 10 and 14 pages long
*  *Short papers*: Between 5 and 9 pages long

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/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw
*  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 2025: The
5th Workshop on Reducing Online
Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval (held as part of ECIR
2025: The 47th European Conference on Information
Retrieval), April 10, 2025, Lucca, Italy
*  The title of the paper should follow the regular capitalization of
English (e.g., Example of a Title of a Paper Correctly Capitalized)
*  Please, choose the one-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:
https://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-ntp.pdf?ver=2024-06-04
*  If you do use TPM, the agreement can be found at:
https://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-tp.pdf?ver=2024-06-04

For further information: https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html
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*IMPORTANT DATES (AoE)*
*  *Abstract submission*: January 05, 2025
*  *Paper submission*: January 12, 2025
*  *Decision notification*: February 16, 2025
*  *Workshop day*: April 10, 2025
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*KEYNOTE SPEAKER*

* *Stefano Mizzaro* (https://users.dimi.uniud.it/~stefano.mizzaro/),
University of Udine, Italy
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*ORGANIZERS*
*  *Udo Kruschwitz* (https://www.linkedin.com/in/udo-kruschwitz-57106b5/),
University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
*  *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, Milan, Italy

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*Marco Viviani* (Associate Professor)
University of Milano-Bicocca
Department of Informatics, Systems, and Communication (DISCo)
Information and Knowledge Representation, Retrieval, and Reasoning (IKR3)
Lab
Edificio U14 - ABACUS, 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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