ROMCIR 2024: The 4th Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval Glasgow, UK, March 24, 2024 |
Conference website | https://romcir.disco.unimib.it/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=romcir2024 |
Abstract registration deadline | January 5, 2024 |
Submission deadline | January 12, 2024 |
The fourth edition of the ROMCIR Workshop concerns providing access to users to (topically) relevant and truthful information, to mitigate the human-generated or AI-generated information disorder phenomenon concerning distinct domains. By "information disorder" we mean all forms of communication pollution, from misinformation made out of ignorance, automatically built based on biased content, to intentional sharing of false content (generated both manually and automatically). In this context, all those approaches that can assess the truthfulness of information circulating online and on social media find their place. This topic is vast, 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.).
Submission Guidelines
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- Original, unpublished contributions (pre-prints submitted to ArXiv are eligible) that will be included in an open-access post-proceedings volume of CEUR Workshop Proceedings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
Submissions must be:
- Between 10 and 14 pages long (regular papers)
- Between 5 and 9 pages long (short papers)
Further instructions:
- 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
- Please, choose the single-column template.
- The paper must contain, as the name of the Workshop: "ROMCIR 2024: The 4th Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval, held as part of ECIR 2024: the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, March 24, 2024, Glasgow, UK".
- The title of the paper should follow the regular capitalization of English.
- According to CEUR-WS policy, the papers will be published under a CCBY 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 athttp://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-ntp.pdf?ver=2020-03-02
- If you do use TPM, the agreement can be found athttp://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-tp.pdf?ver=2020-03-02
Important Dates
- Abstract Submission: January 05, 2024
- Paper Submission: January 12, 2024
- Decision Notifications: February 16, 2024
- Workshop day: March 24, 2024
List of Topics
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/hallucination detection
- 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
Committees
Program Committee
- Carlos A. Iglesias, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- David Losada, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Udo Kruschwitz, Universität Regensburg, Germany
- Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
- To be updated...
Organizing Committee
- Marinella Petrocchi, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica - CNR, Pisa, Italy
- Marco Viviani, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Venue
The Workshop will be held under the ECIR 2024 Conference that will take place in Glasgow, Scotland, on 24th-28th March 2024
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to marco.viviani@unimib.it