ROMCIR 2025: The 5th International Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval

Co-located with ECIR 2025: The 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval

Lucca, Italy | April 10, 2025

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

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=romcir2025 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The fifth edition of ROMCIR concerns providing access to users to (topically) relevant and factually accurate 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 serve to assess the factual accuracy 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 and retrieval of truthful information * Bot/spam/troll detection * Computational fact-checking * Credibility assessment of online documents * Crowdsourcing for information truthfulness assessment * Disinformation/misinformation/bias detection * Evaluation strategies to assess information truthfulness * Generative models and information truthfulness assessment * Human-in-the-loop misinformation detection * Information polarization in online communities, echo chambers * Propaganda identification/analysis * Retrieval of credible and truthful information * Security, privacy, and information truthfulness * 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=romcir2025

**************************************************************************************************** SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Submissions must be:

* Regular papers: between 10 and 14 pages long * Short papers: Between 5 and 9 pages long

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/project/671e05abc213fddad9644a94 * 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 2025: The 5th Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval (held as part of ECIR 2025: The 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval), April 10, 2025, Lucca, Italy * The title of the paper should follow the regular capitalization of English (e.g., Example of a Title of a Paper Correctly Capitalized) * Please, choose the one-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: https://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-ntp.pdf?ver=2024-06-04 * If you do use TPM, the agreement can be found at: https://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-tp.pdf?ver=2024-06-04

For further information: https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html

**************************************************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES (AoE)

* Abstract submission: January 05, 2025 * Paper submission: January 12, 2025 * Decision notification: February 16, 2025 * Workshop day: April 10, 2025

**************************************************************************************************** ORGANIZERS

* Udo Kruschwitz (https://www.linkedin.com/in/udo-kruschwitz-57106b5/), University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany * 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