Connectionists: [Last CFP][Updated deadlines!][ECIR 2023][ROMCIR 2023]

[Marinella Petrocchi]

[Last CFP][Updated deadlines!][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

***UPDATED IMPORTANT DATES***

- Abstract Submission Deadline: *January 15, 2023*
- Paper Submission Deadline: *January 22, 2023*
- Decision Notifications: *February 26, 2023*
- Workshop day: *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

***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 communicated

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

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