<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">[2nd CFP][Apologies for multiple postings][ECIR 2024][ROMCIR 2024]<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br>*******************************************************************************************************************************************<br><br>ROMCIR 2024: The 4th International Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval<br><br>Co-located with ECIR 2024: The 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval<br><br>Glasgow, UK, March 24, 2024<br><br>Conference website: <a href="https://romcir.disco.unimib.it/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://romcir.disco.unimib.it</a> (will be updated soon!)<br><br>Submission link: <a href="https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=romcir2024" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=romcir2024</a><br><br>*******************************************************************************************************************************************<br><br></div><div dir="ltr">GENERAL DESCRIPTION<br><br>The fourth edition of ROMCIR concerns providing access to users to (topically) relevant and truthful information, to </div><div dir="ltr">mitigate the human-generated or AI-generated information disorder phenomenon concerning distinct domains. </div><div dir="ltr">By "information disorder" we mean all forms of communication pollution, from misinformation made out of ignorance, </div><div dir="ltr">automatically built based on biased content, to intentional sharing of false content (generated both manually </div><div dir="ltr">and automatically).<br><br>In this context, all those approaches that can serve to assess the truthfulness of information circulating online and on social </div><div dir="ltr">media in particular find their place. This topic is vast, as it concerns different contents (e.g., Web pages, news, </div><div dir="ltr">reviews, medical information, online accounts, etc.), different Web and social media platforms (e.g., microblogging </div><div dir="ltr">platforms, social networking services, social question-answering systems, etc.), different purposes (e.g., identifying false </div><div dir="ltr">information, accessing information based on its truthfulness, retrieving truthful information, etc.), and different open issues </div><div dir="ltr">related in particular to AI (e.g., explainability of search results, assessment of the truthfulness of automatically generated </div><div dir="ltr">content, generative models to support IRSs, etc.).</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">*******************************************************************************************************************************************<br><br>THEMES<br><br>The themes of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:<br><br>* Access to truthful information<br>* Artificial Intelligence and information truthfulness assessment<br>* Bias detection<br>* Bot/spam/troll detection<br>* Computational fact-checking<br>* Crowdsourcing for information truthfulness assessment<br>* Disinformation/misinformation detection<br>* Evaluation strategies to assess information truthfulness<br>* Generative models and information truthfulness assessment/hallucination detection<br>* Harassment/bullying/hate speech detection<br>* Information polarization in online communities, echo chambers<br>* Propaganda identification/analysis<br>* Retrieval of truthful information<br>* Security, privacy, and information truthfulness<br>* Sentiment/emotional analysis<br>* Societal reaction to misinformation<br>* Stance detection<br>* Trust and reputation<br><br>Data-driven approaches, supported by publicly available datasets, are more than welcome.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">*******************************************************************************************************************************************<br><br>CONTRIBUTIONS<br><br>The workshop solicits the sending of two types of contributions relevant to the workshop and suitable to generate </div><div dir="ltr">discussion:<br><br>* Original, unpublished contributions (pre-prints submitted to ArXiv are eligible) that will be included in an open-access </div><div dir="ltr">post-proceedings volume of CEUR Workshop Proceedings (<a href="http://ceur-ws.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">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 volume.<br><br>All submissions will undergo SINGLE-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/my/conference?conf=romcir2024" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=romcir2024</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">*******************************************************************************************************************************************<br><br>SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS<br><br>Submissions must be:<br><br>* Between 10 and 14 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: <a href="https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt</a></div><div dir="ltr">* An offline version with the style files including DOCX template files is available at: </div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip</a><br>* The paper must contain, as the name of the conference: ROMCIR 2024: The 4th Workshop </div><div dir="ltr">on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval, held as part of ECIR </div><div dir="ltr">2024: the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, March 24, 2024, Glasgow, UK<br>* The title of the paper should follow the regular capitalization of English</div><div dir="ltr">* Please, choose the single-column template<br>* According to CEUR-WS policy, the papers will be published under a CC<br>BY 4.0 license: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">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 with CEUR:<br><br>* In case you do not employ Third-Party Material (TPM) in your draft, sign the document at<br><a href="http://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-ntp.pdf?ver=2020-03-02" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">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" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-tp.pdf?ver=2020-03-02</a><br><br>*******************************************************************************************************************************************<br><br>IMPORTANT DATES<br><br>* Abstract Submission Deadline: January 05, 2024<br>* Paper Submission Deadline: January 12, 2024<br>* Decision Notifications: February 16, 2024<br>* Workshop day: March 24, 2024</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">*******************************************************************************************************************************************<br><br>CHAIRS<br><br>* Marinella Petrocchi (<a href="https://www.iit.cnr.it/en/marinella.petrocchi/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.iit.cnr.it/en/marinella.petrocchi/</a>), IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy<br>* Marco Viviani (<a href="https://ikr3.disco.unimib.it/people/marco-viviani/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ikr3.disco.unimib.it/people/marco-viviani/</a>), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><b>Marco Viviani</b> (Associate Professor)<div>University of Milano-Bicocca</div><div>Department of Informatics, Systems, and Communication (DISCo)</div><div>Information and Knowledge Representation, Retrieval, and Reasoning (IKR3) Lab</div><div>Edificio U14 - ABACUS, Viale Sarca, 336 - 20126 Milan (Italy)</div><div>e-mail: <a href="mailto:marco.viviani@unimib.it" target="_blank">marco.viviani@unimib.it</a></div><div>URL: <a href="https://ikr3.disco.unimib.it/people/marco-viviani/" target="_blank">https://ikr3.disco.unimib.it/people/marco-viviani/</a></div><div><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:Georgia,"Bitstream Charter",serif;font-style:italic"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia,"Bitstream Charter",serif;font-style:italic"><font color="#000000">- Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas -</font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>