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The Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval (ROMCIR) 2021 Workshop, as part of the satellite events of the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), is concerned with providing users with access to genuine information, to mitigate the information disorder phenomenon characterizing the current online digital ecosystem. This problem is very broad, as it concerns different information objects (e.g., Web pages, online accounts, social media posts, etc.) on different platforms, and different domains and purposes (e.g., detecting fake news, retrieving credible health-related information, reducing propaganda and hate-speech, etc.). In this context, all those approaches that can serve, from different perspectives, to tackle the credible information access problem, find their place.
Supported by the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, the University of Milano-Bicocca (DISCo – IKR3 Lab), and the scheme ‘INFRAIA-01-2018-2019: Research and Innovation action’, Grant Agreement n. 871042 ‘SoBigData++: European Integrated Infrastructure for Social Mining and Big Data Analytics’.
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We would like to thank the authors of the submitted articles for their interest in the considered problem, the members of the Program Committee for their valuable contribution to the success of the ROMCIR 2021 Workshop, and the Keynote Speakers for the interest aroused in new research directions. F.S. acknowledge also support from the European Project SoBigData++ (GA. 871042).
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Saracco, F., Viviani, M. (2021). ROMCIR 2021: Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval. In: Hiemstra, D., Moens, MF., Mothe, J., Perego, R., Potthast, M., Sebastiani, F. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12657. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72240-1_87
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