<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">[Apologies for multiple postings][ECIR 2025][ROMCIR 2025]</div>____________________________________________________________________________________________________</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><b>
ROMCIR 2025</b>: <u>The 5th International Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval</u><br>
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Co-located with ECIR 2025: The 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval<br>
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Lucca, Italy | April 10, 2025<br>
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Workshop website: <a href="https://romcir.disco.unimib.it" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://romcir.disco.unimib.it</a><br>
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Submission link: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=romcir2025" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=romcir2025</a><br>
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GENERAL DESCRIPTION<br></b>
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The fifth edition of ROMCIR concerns providing access to users to (topically) relevant and factually accurate information, to</div><div class="gmail_quote">mitigate the human-generated or AI-generated information disorder phenomenon concerning distinct domains.<br>
By "information disorder" we mean all forms of communication pollution, from misinformation made out of ignorance, </div><div class="gmail_quote">automatically built based on biased content, to intentional sharing of false content (generated both manually and automatically).<br>
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In this context, all those approaches that can serve to assess the factual accuracy of information circulating online and in </div><div class="gmail_quote">social media in particular find their place. This topic is very broad, as it concerns different contents (e.g., Web pages,<br>
news, reviews, medical information, online accounts, etc.), different Web and social media platforms (e.g., microblogging<br>
platforms, social networking services, social question-answering systems, etc.), different purposes (e.g., identifying false<br>
information, accessing information based on its truthfulness, retrieving truthful information, etc.), and different open issues<br>
related in particular to AI (e.g., explainability of search results, assessment of the truthfulness of automatically generated<br>
content, generative models to support IRSs, etc.).<br>____________________________________________________________________________________________________</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><b>THEMES<br></b>
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The themes of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:<br>
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* Access to and retrieval of truthful information<br>
* Bot/spam/troll detection<br>
* Computational fact-checking<br>
* Credibility assessment of online documents<br>
* Crowdsourcing for information truthfulness assessment<br>
* Disinformation/misinformation/bias detection<br>
* Evaluation strategies to assess information truthfulness<br>
* Generative models and information truthfulness assessment<br>
* Human-in-the-loop misinformation detection<br>
* Information polarization in online communities, echo chambers<br>
* Propaganda identification/analysis<br>
* Retrieval of credible and truthful information<br>
* Security, privacy, and information truthfulness<br>
* Societal reaction to misinformation<br>
* Stance detection<br>
* Trust and reputation<br>
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Data-driven approaches, supported by publicly available datasets, are more than welcome.<br>____________________________________________________________________________________________________</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><b>CONTRIBUTIONS<br></b>
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The Workshop solicits the sending of two types of contributions relevant to the Workshop and suitable to generate discussion:<br>
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* <b>Original, unpublished contributions</b> (pre-prints submitted to ArXiv are eligible) that will be included in an open-access<br>
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>
* <b>Already published or preliminary work</b> that will not be included in the post-proceedings volume.<br>
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All submissions will undergo SINGLE-BLIND peer review by the Program Committee.<br>
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Submissions are to be done electronically through the EasyChair at:<br>
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<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=romcir2025" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=romcir2025</a><br>____________________________________________________________________________________________________</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><b>
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS<br></b>
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Submissions must be:<br>
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* <b>Regular papers</b>: between 10 and 14 pages long<br>
* <b>Short papers</b>: Between 5 and 9 pages long<br>
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We recommend that authors use the new CEUR-ART style for writing papers to be published:<br>
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* An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available at:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw" target="_blank">https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw</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" 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 2025: The 5th Workshop on Reducing Online </div><div class="gmail_quote">Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval (held as part of ECIR 2025: The 47th European Conference on Information </div><div class="gmail_quote">Retrieval), April 10, 2025, Lucca, Italy<br>
* The title of the paper should follow the regular capitalization of English (e.g., Example of a Title of a Paper Correctly Capitalized)<br>
* Please, choose the one-column template<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" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en</a><br>
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If the paper is accepted, authors will be asked to sign (at pen) an author agreement with CEUR:<br>
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* In case you do not employ Third-Party Material (TPM) in your draft, sign the document at:<br>
<a href="https://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-ntp.pdf?ver=2024-06-04" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-ntp.pdf?ver=2024-06-04</a><br>
* If you do use TPM, the agreement can be found at:<br>
<a href="https://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-tp.pdf?ver=2024-06-04" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-tp.pdf?ver=2024-06-04</a><br>
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For further information: <a href="https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html</a><br><div class="gmail_quote">_________________________________________________________________________________________________</div><br><b>IMPORTANT DATES (AoE)<br></b>
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* <b>Abstract submission</b>: January 05, 2025<br>
* <b>Paper submission</b>: January 12, 2025<br>
* <b>Decision notification</b>: February 16, 2025<br>
* <b>Workshop day</b>: April 10, 2025<br><div class="gmail_quote">____________________________________________________________________________________________________</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><b>KEYNOTE SPEAKER</b></div><div class="gmail_quote"><b><br></b></div><div class="gmail_quote">* <b>Stefano Mizzaro</b> (<a href="https://users.dimi.uniud.it/~stefano.mizzaro/" target="_blank">https://users.dimi.uniud.it/~stefano.mizzaro/</a>), University of Udine, Italy</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote">____________________________________________________________________________________________________</div></div><br><b>ORGANIZERS<br></b>
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* <b>Udo Kruschwitz</b> (<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/udo-kruschwitz-57106b5/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/udo-kruschwitz-57106b5/</a>), University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany<br>
* <b>Marinella Petrocchi</b> (<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>
* <b>Marco Viviani</b> (<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><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="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><br></div></div></div></div>
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