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ROMCIR 2021
Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval 2021

Proceedings of the Workshop Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval (ROMCIR 2021)
co-located with the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval ( ECIR 2021 )

Lucca, Italy (On-line), April 1, 2021 .

Edited by

Fabio Saracco *
Marco Viviani **

* IMT School For Advanced Studies Lucca , NETWORKS Unit, P.zza S.Francesco 19, 55100 Lucca, Italy
** Università Degli Studi di Milano Bicocca , Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, IKR3 Lab, Viale Sarca 336, 20126 Milan, Italy

Table of Contents

Overview of ROMCIR 2021: Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval
An overview of the issues and solutions discussed in the Workshop is presented.
Accepted papers are discussed and information about the keynote speakers and organizers of the Workshop is provided.
In summary, there were 20 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 6 papers were accepted for this volume, as regular papers.
Fabio Saracco , Marco Viviani ;

Session 1: Information sources and credibility

Improving Authorship Verification using Linguistic Divergence 1-15
Yifan Zhang , Dainis Boumber , Marjan Hosseinia , Fan Yang , Arjun Mukherjee
Bias and truth in science evaluation: a simulation model of grant review panel discussions 16-24
Adrián Martín Bethencourt , Junwen Luo , Thomas Feliciani

Session 2: Malinformation and misinformation

Consumption of Hate Speech on Twitter: A Topical Approach to Capture Networks of Hateful Users 25-34
Sameer Gupta , Seema Nagar , Amit Anil Nanavati , Kuntal Dey , Ferdous Ahmed Barbhuiya , Sougata Mukherjea
On the Feasibility of Using GANs for Claim Verification- Experiments and Analysis 35-46
Amartya Hatua , Arjun Mukherjee , Rakesh M. Verma

Session 3: Access to credible information

Supporting verification of news articles with automated search for semantically similar articles 47-58
Vishwani Gupta , Katharina Beckh , Sven Giesselbach , Dennis Wegener , Tim Wirtz
Sharing retrieved information using Linked Credibility Reviews 59-65
Ronald Denaux , Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez

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