Call for Papers

Ubiquitous misinformation such as unreliable and/or harmful content is actively and successfully influencing public perception and stance towards many sensitive issues and domains, including economy, health, environment, culture, and foreign policy. Today, around half the world’s population have access to the Internet, where they can create, propagate, and consume information instantly and globally. In spite of this rising addiction to rapid consumption of online information, people and current technologies are yet to adapt to the age of misinformation, where incorrect or misleading information is intentionally or unintentionally spread across social hm media, the Web and even some mainstream media. This workshop aims to gather cutting edge research, expertise, and techniques generated by the Semantic Web community, to join the growing global battle against misinformation.

Topics of interest

Includes but not limited to:

• Ontologies for representing rumors, misinformation, disinformation, and other deceptive content
• Semantic models of misinformation detection
• Knowledge graphs for integrating and analysing misinformation content
• Semantic analysis of opinion and sentiment towards misinformation
• Misinformed-behaviour semantic representation and analysis
• Detection of information and semantic frame manipulation
• Semantic similarity of articles with more/less exaggerated/biased content
• Semantic topic affinity analysis of users sharing unreliable content
• Semantic extraction of misinforming topics and events
• Misinformation semantic patterns identification and prediction
• Semantically-enriched datasets of misinformation content and sources
• Semantic matching of Fact-Checking misinformation assessment labels
• Modelling user/information source trustworthiness
• Semantic annotation standards for misinformation annotation
• ClaimReview schema usage and structure assessment
• Semantic applications for tackling the spread of misinformation
• Using Linked Open Data as a source of factual information

Submission

Submission can be as short papers (up to 4 pages long) and long papers (up to 8 pages long), excluding references. Accepted papers will be invited to submit to a forthcoming Journal of Web Semantics special issue on Web Content Credibility. All submissions must be in PDF and written in English, formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details on the LNCS style, see Springer’s Author Instructions. SEMIFORM proceedings will be published with CEUR-WS.org. The submission web site is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semiform2020

Dates

Workshop papers submissions - August 10, 2020 … until September 15, 2020

Notification - September 11, 2020

Camera Ready Submission - September 21, 2020

Publication of Proceedings - October 2, 2020

For any questions, please feel free to contact the organisers directly, or via semiform2020@easychair.org.