<div dir="ltr">*****************************************************************************************************<br><br> ROMCIR 2021: Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval<br><br> Workshop @ ECIR 2021 (43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval)<br><br> Lucca, Italy, March 28 - April 1, 2021<br><br> (ONLINE EVENT)<br><br> <a href="https://romcir2021.disco.unimib.it/">https://romcir2021.disco.unimib.it/</a><br><br>
*****************************************************************************************************<br><br>The central topic of the ROMCIR (Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible<br>Information Retrieval) 2021 workshop, as part of the satellite events of the ECIR<br>(European Conference on Information Retrieval) 2021 conference, concerns providing <br>access to users to credible and/or verified information, to mitigate the information <br>disorder phenomenon. By "information disorder" we mean all forms of communication <br>pollution, from misinformation made out of ignorance, to intentional sharing of <br>false content. In this context, all those approaches that can serve to the assessment <br>of the credibility of information circulating online and in social media, in particular, <div>find their place.<br><br>This topic is very broad, as it concerns different contents (e.g., Web pages, news,<br>reviews, medical information, online accounts, etc.), different Web and social media<br>platforms (e.g., microblogging platforms, social networking services, social<br>question-answering systems, etc.), and different purposes (e.g., identifying false<br>information, accessing information based on its credibility, retrieving credible<br>information, etc.).<br><br>For this reason, the themes of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:<br><br>- Access to credible information<br>- Bias detection<br>- Bot/Spam/Troll detection<br>- Computational fact-checking<br>- Crowdsourcing for credibility<br>- Deep fakes<br>- Disinformation/Misinformation detection<br>- Evaluation strategies to assess information credibility<br>- Fake news detection<br>- Fake reviews detection<br>- Filter bubbles/Echo chambers<br>- Harassment/bullying<br>- Hate-speech detection<br>- Information polarization in online communities<br>- Propaganda identification/analysis<br>- Retrieval of credible information<br>- Security, privacy, and credibility<br>- Sentiment/Emotional analysis<br>- Stance detection<br>- Trust and Reputation systems (to mitigate the effects of disinformation)<br>- Understanding and guiding the societal reaction in the presence of disinformation<br><br>Data-driven approaches, supported by publicly available datasets, are more than welcome.<br><br>
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<br><br>SUBMISSION GUIDELINES<br><br>The workshop solicits the sending of two types of contributions relevant to the workshop<br>and suitable to generate discussion:<br><br>- Original, unpublished contributions (pre-prints submitted to ArXiv are eligible) that<br>will be included in an open-access post-proceedings volume of CEUR Workshop Proceedings<br>(<a href="http://ceur-ws.org/">http://ceur-ws.org/</a>), indexed by both Scopus and DBLP.<br>- Already published or preliminary work that will not be included in the post-proceedings<br>volume.<br><br>All submissions will undergo a double-blind peer review by the program committee.<br><br>Submissions are to be done electronically through the EasyChair at:<br><br>- <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=romcir2021">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=romcir2021</a><br><br>
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<br><br>INSTRUCTIONS<br><br>Submissions must be at least:<br><br>- 10 pages long (regular papers)<br>- between 5 and 9 pages long (short papers)<br><br>We recommend that authors use the new CEUR-ART style for writing papers to be published:<br><br>- An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available at:<br><a href="https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt">https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt</a><br>- An offline version with the style files including DOCX template files is available at:<br><a href="http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip">http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip</a><br><br>The paper must contain, as the name of the conference: ROMCIR 2021: Workshop on Reducing<br>Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval, held as part of ECIR 2021:<br>the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval, March 28 – April 1, 2021, Lucca,<br>Italy (Online Event).<br><br>The title of the paper should follow the regular capitalization of English.<br><br>Please, choose the single-column template.<br><br>According to CEUR-WS policy, the papers will be published under a CC BY 4.0 license<br>(<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en</a>).<br><br>If the paper is accepted, authors will be asked to sign (at pen) an author agreement<br>with CEUR:<br><br>- In case you do not employ Third-Party Material (TPM) in your draft, sign the document<br>at <a href="http://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-ntp.pdf?ver=2020-03-02">http://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-ntp.pdf?ver=2020-03-02</a><br>- If you do use TPM, the agreement can be found at<br><a href="http://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-tp.pdf?ver=2020-03-02">http://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-tp.pdf?ver=2020-03-02</a><br><br>Please submit an anonymized version of the submission (do not indicate the names of<br>authors and institutions and cite your work in an impersonal way).<br><br>
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<br><br>IMPORTANT DATES / Anywhere on Earth (AoE)<br><br>Abstract Submission Deadline: December 22, 2020<br>Submission Deadline: January 04, 2021<br>Decision Notifications: Feb 5, 2021<br>Early Registration Deadline: Feb 10, 2021<br>Camera-ready: March 01, 2021<br>Conference: March 28 - April 1, 2021<br><br>
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<br><br>ORGANIZERS<br><br>- Fabio Saracco, IMT School For Advanced Studies Lucca<br>- Marco Viviani, University of Milano-Bicocca<br><br>Any questions about submissions can be emailed to:<br><br>- <a href="mailto:fabio.saracco@imtlucca.it">fabio.saracco@imtlucca.it</a><br>- <a href="mailto:marco.viviani@unimib.it">marco.viviani@unimib.it</a><br><br>URL: <a href="https://romcir2021.disco.unimib.it/">https://romcir2021.disco.unimib.it/</a><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div></div></div></div></div></div>