Connectionists: [1st CfP] ROMCIR 2024: The 4th International Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval

[Marinella Petrocchi]

[1st CFP][Apologies for multiple postings][ECIR 2024][ROMCIR 2024]

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ROMCIR 2024: The 4th International Workshop on Reducing Online
Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval

Co-located with ECIR 2024: 46th European Conference on Information 
Retrieval

Glasgow, UK, March 24, 2024

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

Submission link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=romcir2024

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***GENERAL DESCRIPTION***

The fourth edition of ROMCIR concerns providing access to users to 
(topically) relevant and truthful information, to mitigate the 
human-generated or AI-generated information disorder phenomenon with 
respect to distinct domains. By `information disorder’ we mean all forms 
of communication pollution, from misinformation made out of ignorance, 
automatically built on the basis of biased content, to intentional 
sharing of false content (generated both manually and automatically).

In this context, all those approaches that can serve to assess the 
truthfulness 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.), different purposes (e.g., identifying 
false information, accessing information based on its truthfulness, 
retrieving truthful information, etc.), and different open issues 
related in particular to AI (e.g., explainability of search results, 
assessment of the truthfulness of automatically generated content, 
generative models to support IRSs, etc.).

***THEMES***

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

Access to truthful information
Artificial Intelligence and information truthfulness assessment
Bias detection
Bot/spam/troll detection
Computational fact-checking
Crowdsourcing for information truthfulness assessment
Disinformation/misinformation detection
Evaluation strategies to assess information truthfulness
Generative models and information truthfulness assessment
Harassment/bullying/hate speech detection
Information polarization in online communities, echo chambers
Propaganda identification/analysis
Retrieval of truthful information
Security, privacy, and information truthfulness
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/my/conference?conf=romcir2024

***SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS***

Submissions must be:

- 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


***IMPORTANT DATES***

- Abstract Submission Deadline: January 05, 2024
- Paper Submission Deadline: January 12, 2024
- Decision Notifications: February 16, 2024
- Workshop day: March 24, 2024

***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

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


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