NLP-MisInfo-2023: SEPLN 2023 Workshop on NLP applied to Misinformation 39 Congreso de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN 2023) Jaen, Spain, September 26, 2023

General Description

The impact of fake news in the global economy, public health and even in the creation of panic in society has been extensively documented in the past few years with countless examples. Thus, the high cost associated with the spread of fake news: the absence of control and verification of the information, which makes social media a fertile ground for the spread of unverified or false information. With this in mind, we can affirm that the magnitude, diversity and substantial dangers of fake news and, in more general terms, the disinformation circulating on social media is becoming a reason of concern due to the potential social cost it may have in the near future. As a consequence, the research community in the field of Natural Language Processing, has been focusing on the detection and intervention of fake news using techniques such as Machine Learning and Deep Learning, and taking into account: – Content-based features contain information that can be extracted from the text, such as linguistic features. – Context-based features contain surrounding information such as user characteristics, social network propagation features, or users’ reactions to the information.

Thus, the objective of this workshop is to foster research both at the theoretical as well as at the level of practical real-world applications of NLP technologies applied to misinformation mitigation. The workshop aims at bringing together researchers, developers and industries  interested in the problem of mitigating misinformation through NLP technologies. We will discuss recent trends and research projects, as well as developments and advances being made in the area of NLP to address the problem of misinformation from different perspectives.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: 15th June 2023 
• Accept/Reject Communications: 7th July 2023
• Camera-ready papers due: 22nd July 2023
• Publication:  September 2023
• Workshop date:  26th September 2023

Submission Guidelines

The Workshop solicits the sending of three types of contributions relevant to the Workshop and suitable to generate discussion:

1. Dataset related submission. The aim of these papers is to present a dataset related to the topic of the workshop that has been or is being developed. These papers may be already published or not original papers.
2. Projects related submission. The aim of these papers is to present projects and lines of work within the topic of the workshop, both academic and industrial. These papers may be already published or not original papers.
3. Original, unpublished contributions.

All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review by the Program Committee and will be included in an open-access post-proceedings volume of CEUR Workshop Proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/), indexed by both Scopus and DBLP.

• Submissions must be at least:
  • 10 pages long (regular papers)
  • between 5 and 9 pages long (short papers) 
• According to the CEUR instructions:
  • A regular paper has at least 10 “standard” pages (1 standard page = 2500 characters) and an appropriate number of references. It shall contain enough substance that it can be cited in other publications.
  • A short paper is still a paper with references, but has between 5-9 “standard” pages.
  • Further info: http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#PUBLISH-RULES
• 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/read/gwhxnqcghhdt
  • 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: NLP-MisInfo 2023: SEPLN 2023 Workshop on NLP applied to Misinformation, held as part of SEPLN 2023: 39th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing, September 26th, 2023, Jaen, Spain
  • The title of the paper should follow the regular capitalization of English
  • Please, choose the single-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 http://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-ntp.pdf?ver=2020-03-02
  • If you do use TPM, the agreement can be found at http://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-tp.pdf?ver=2020-03-02 
• Please submit an anonymized version of the submission (do not indicate the names of authors and institutions and cite your work in an impersonal way)

• A selected best paper from NLP-MisInfo 2023, will be invited to publish, via fast track, an extended version in the Expert Systems Journal (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14680394).

List of Topics

• Stance detection and polarization
• Automated claim verification (inference, counter-argument generation, multilinguality/crosslinguality
• Reliability detection
• Misleading headlines
• Collective intelligence
• Digital entities
• Harmful Information Detection: fake news and hate speech
• Semi-automatic disinformation annotation
• Disinformation resources
• Misinformation and economic with the truth
• Automatic fact-checking
• Evidence Extraction
• QA-based Verification
• Representation of Misinformation Propagation with Knowledge Graphs
• Conspiracy detection
• Spreading disinformation simulation

Committees

Program Committee

• Rodrigo Agerri, HiTZ Center - Ixa, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
• Óscar Araque, GSI, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)
• Carlos Badenes-Olmedo, Ontology Engineering Group (OEG), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)
• David Camacho, Applied Intelligence & Data Analysis group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)
• Jorge Carrillo-de-Albornoz, NLP & IR, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)
• Roberto Centeno, NLP & IR, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)
• Pablo Hernandez, Maldita.es
• Manuel Montes, Laboratory of Language Technologies of the Computational Sciences Department (INAOE), México
• Borja Lozano, Newtral
• Laura Plaza, NLP & IR, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)
• Anselmo Peñas, NLP & IR UNED, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)
• Álvaro Rodrigo, NLP & IR, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)
• Paolo Rosso, PRHLT Research Center, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV).
• Fernando Sánchez, GSI, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)
• Estela Saquete, Natural Language Processing and Information Systems Group, University of Alicante
• Mariona Taule Delor, CLiC- The Language and Computation Center-CLiC, University of Barcelona 

Organizing committee

• Roberto Centeno, NLP & IR, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)
• Rodrigo Agerri, Hitz Center - IXA, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)

Publication

NLP-MisInfo-2023 proceedings will be published as an open-access post-proceedings volume of CEUR Workshop Proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/), indexed by both Scopus and DBLP.

A selected best paper from NLP-MisInfo 2023, will be invited to publish, via fast track, an extended version in the Expert Systems Journal (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14680394).

Venue

The workshop will be held in Jaen, Spain, co-located with SEPLN 2023: 39th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to rcenteno@lsi.uned.es, rodrigo.agerri@ehu.eus