Vol-3986
urn:nbn:de:0074-3986-X

Copyright © 2025 for the individual papers by the papers' authors. Copyright © 2025 for the volume as a collection by its editors. This volume and its papers are published under the Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

ROMCIR 2025
Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval 2025

Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval
co-located the 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025)

Lucca, Italy, April 10, 2025.

Edited by

Marco Viviani ¹
Marinella Petrocchi ²
Udo Kruschwitz ³

¹ Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione, Edificio U14 (ABACUS), Viale Sarca, 336 - 20126 Milan, Italy
² Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 1 - 56124 Pisa, Italy
³ University of Regensburg, Information Science, Universitätsstraße, 31 - 93053 Regensburg, Germany

Table of Contents

Overview of ROMCIR 2025: The 5th Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval
Summary: There were 12 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 6 papers were accepted for this volume, 4 as regular papers and 2 as short papers.

Session 1: LLMs and Misinformation

LLM Based Bilingual Rumor Verification Using Evidence From Authorities 1-10
Alaaeddin Alia, Muhammad Taimoor Khan
Towards Automated Fact-Checking of Real-World Claims: Exploring Task Formulation and Assessment with LLMs 11-23
Premtim Sahitaj, Iffat Maab, Junichi Yamagishi, Jawan Kolanowski, Sebastian Möller, Vera Schmitt

Session 2: Misinformation and Children

Online Information Disorder & Children 24-38
Hrishita Chakrabarti, Tobia Diletta Micol, Monica Landoni, Maria Soledad Pera
100 Queries: What do Dutch Children See on the Web 39-53
Carsten Schnober, Maarten Sprenger

Session 3: Misinformation Detection

What about Language? A Multilingual Behavioural Study of User Engagement with Disinformation on X (short paper) 54-69
Lorella Viola
Beyond Fact-Checking: A Scalable, Domain-Agnostic, and Explainable System for Automated Fake News Detection (short paper) 70-78
Marco Aspromonte, Giuseppe Contissa, Federico Galli, Andrea Loreggia

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