[agents] [2nd CFP][ECIR 2023] ROMCIR 2023: 3rd Workshop on Reducing Oline Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval

[Marco Viviani]

[2nd CFP][Apologies for multiple postings][ECIR 2023][ROMCIR 2023]

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ROMCIR 2023: The 3rd International Workshop on Reducing Online
Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval

Dublin, Ireland, April 2, 2023

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

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=romcir2023

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***GENERAL DESCRIPTION***

The third edition of the ROMCIR Workshop aims at studying how to provide
access to users to (topically) relevant and genuine information, to
mitigate the information disorder phenomenon with respect to distinct
domains. By “information disorder” we mean all forms of communication
pollution, from misinformation made out of ignorance, to the intentional
sharing of false content. In this context, all those approaches that can
serve to assess the genuineness of information circulating online and in
social media in particular find their place.

Given that the problem in recent years has been addressed from various
points of view (e.g., fake news detection, bot detection, information
genuineness assessment, …), the purpose of this Workshop proposed at ECIR
2023 is to consider these issues in the context of Information Access and
Retrieval, also considering related Artificial Intelligence fields such as
Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural Language Understanding (NLU),
Computer Vision, Machine and Deep Learning, etc.

***THEMES***

The themes of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Access to genuine information
- Bias detection
- Bot/spam/troll detection
- Computational fact-checking
- Crowdsourcing for information genuineness assessment
- Deep fakes
- Disinformation/misinformation detection
- Evaluation strategies to assess information genuineness
- Fake news/review detection
- Harassment/bullying/hate speech detection
- Information polarization in online communities, echo chambers
- Propaganda identification/analysis
- Retrieval of genuine information
- Security, privacy, and information genuineness
- Sentiment/emotional analysis
- Societal reaction to misinformation
- Stance detection
- Trust and reputation

Data-driven approaches, 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 SINGLE-BLIND peer review by the program
committee.

Submissions are to be done electronically through the EasyChair at:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=romcir2023

***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 2023: The
3rd Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information
Retrieval, held as part of ECIR 2023: the 45th European Conference on
Information Retrieval, April 2, 2023, Dublin, Ireland
- 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, 2023
- Paper Submission Deadline: January 10, 2023
- Decision Notifications: February 19, 2023
- Workshop day: April 2, 2023

***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, Milan, Italy

*Publicity and Proceedings Chair*

- Rishabh Upadhyay (https://en.unimib.it/rishabh-gyanendra-upadhyay),
University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

*Program Committee*

- Rino Falcone, Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies –
National Research Council, Italy
- Carlos A. Iglesias, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
- Petr Knoth, Open University, UK
- Udo Kruschwitz, University of Regensburg, Germany
- Yelena Mejova, ISI Foundation, Italy
- Preslav Nakov, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
- Symeon Papadopoulos, Centre for Research and Technology, Greece
- Marinella Petrocchi, Institute of Informatics and Telematics – National
Research Council, Italy
- Francesco Pierri, Polytechnic University of Milan
- Manuel Pratelli, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy
- Fabio Saracco, Enrico Fermi Study and Research Center (CREF), Italy
- Marco Viviani, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
- Arkaitz Zubiaga, Queen Mary University of London, UK
- Other PC members will be notified with the next CFPs

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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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