Connectionists: [3rd CfP - Extended Deadline!][ECIR 2022] ROMCIR 2022: The 2nd International Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval

[Marinella Petrocchi]

[Apologies for multiple postings]

[Extended Deadline! Abstract: January 16, 2022 - Paper: January 23, 
2022]

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ROMCIR 2022: The 2nd International Workshop on Reducing Online 
Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval

Stavanger, Norway, April 10, 2022

Conference website: https://romcir2022.disco.unimib.it/

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=romcir2022

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***AIM AND THEMES***

Within the ECIR 2022 conference (https://ecir2022.org/), the second 
edition of the ROMCIR workshop is particularly focused on discussing and 
addressing issues related to reducing misinformation through Information 
Retrieval solutions. Hence, the central topic of the workshop concerns 
providing access to users to credible and/or verified information, to 
mitigate the information disorder phenomenon. By "information disorder" 
we mean all forms of communication pollution. From misinformation made 
out of ignorance, to intentional sharing of false content. In this 
context, all those approaches that can serve to the assessment of the 
credibility 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.), and different purposes (e.g., 
identifying false information, accessing information based on its 
credibility, retrieving credible information, etc.). For this reason, 
the themes of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Access to credible information
- Bias detection
- Bot/Spam/Troll detection
- Computational fact-checking
- Crowdsourcing for credibility
- Deep fakes
- Disinformation/Misinformation detection
- Evaluation strategies to assess information credibility
- Fake news detection
- Fake reviews detection
- Filter Bubbles and Echo chambers
- Harassment/bullying
- Hate-speech detection
- Information polarization in online communities
- Propaganda identification/analysis
- Retrieval of credible information
- Security, privacy, and credibility
- Sentiment/Emotional analysis
- Stance detection
- Trust and Reputation systems (to mitigate the effects of 
disinformation)
- Understanding and guiding the societal reaction in the presence of 
disinformation

Data-driven approaches in the IR field or related fields, 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 double-blind peer review by the program 
committee.

Submissions are to be done electronically through the EasyChair at:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=romcir2022

***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 2022: 
The 2nd Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible 
Information Retrieval, held as part of ECIR 2022: the 44th European 
Conference on Information Retrieval, April 10-14, 2022, Stavanger, 
Norway

- 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 16, 2022
- Paper Submission Deadline: January 23, 2022
- Decision Notifications: February 18, 2022
- Workshop day: April 10, 2022

***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

*Proceedings Chair*

- Rishabh Upadhyay, University of Milano-Bicocca

*Program Committee*

- Rino Falcone, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies-CNR, 
Rome, Italy
- Carlos A. Iglesias, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Petr Knoth, The Open University, London, UK
- Udo Kruschwitz, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
- Yelena Mejova, ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy
- Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Doha, Qatar
- Symeon Papadopoulos, Information Technologies Institute (ITI), 
Thessaloniki, Greece
- Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
- Marinella Petrocchi, IIT – CNR – Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, 
Pisa, Italy
- Adrian Popescu, CEA LIST, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València, València, Spain
- Fabio Saracco, IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy
- Marco Viviani, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
- Xinyi Zhou, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
- Arkaitz Zubiaga, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK


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Marinella Petrocchi
Senior Researcher
@Institute of Informatics and Telematics (IIT)
National Research Council (CNR)
Pisa (Italy)

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