The aim of the 5th edition of ROMCIR is to generate a discussion on, and possibly provide countermeasures to, the problem of online information disorder, by identifying subjective and objective factors associated with information credibility and truthfulness respectively, and integrating such factors as fundamental dimensions of relevance within Information Retrieval Systems. Given that the problem in recent years has been addressed from various points of view (e.g., fake news detection, bot detection, information truthfulness assessment, etc.), the purpose of this Workshop proposed at ECIR 2025 is to consider these issues in the context of Information Retrieval, also considering related Artificial Intelligence fields such as Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Computer Vision, Machine and Deep Learning.

Submission Instructions

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• Original, unpublished contributions (pre-prints submitted to ArXiv are eligible) that will be included in an open-access post-proceedings volume of CEUR Workshop Proceedings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

Instructions

Submissions must be:

• Between 10 and 14 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/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw
• 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
• 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

List of Topics

The topics 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
• Harassment/bullying/hate speech detection
• Information polarization in online communities, filter bubbles, echo chambers
• Propaganda identification/analysis
• Retrieval of credible and truthful information
• Security, privacy, and information truthfulness
• Sentiment/emotional analysis/stance detection
• Societal reaction to misinformation
• Trust and reputation

Data-driven approaches, supported by publicly available datasets, are more than welcome.

Committees

Organizing Committee

• Udo Kruschwitz, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
• Marinella Petrocchini, National Research Council (IIT-CNR), Pisa, Italy
• Marco Viviani, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Publicity an Proceedings

• John Bianchi, IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy
• Gregor Donabauer, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
• Luca Herranz-Celotti, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Venue

The Workshop will be held in conjuction with ECIR 2025 (47th European Conference on Information Retrieval) that will take place in Lucca, Italy, from 6th-10th April 2025.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to marco.viviani@unimib.it