[Corpora-List] TOIS - Call for Special Issue on Trust and Veracity of Information in Social Media

[Leon Derczynski]

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Call for Special Issue on Trust and Veracity of Information in Social Media


Submission deadline: March 24, 2015

Special Issue page:http://tois.acm.org/Call_for_special_issue010215.html


Motivation

>From a business and government point of view there is an increasing need to
interpret and act upon information from large-volume media, such as
Twitter, Facebook and Web news. However, knowledge gathered from online
sources and social media comes with a major caveat - it cannot always be
trusted, nor is it always factual and of high quality. Rumors tend to
spread rapidly through social networks, especially in circumstances where
their veracity is hard to establish. Researchers have found that people
read and rely on untrusted sources for various reasons, the main ones being
their interestingness, entertainment value, a friend's online
recommendation, or a search engine result. A 2012 report from Pew Internet
Research on the future of big data argues that even though by 2020 big data
is likely to have a transformational effect on our knowledge and
understanding of the world, there is also high risk of "distribution of
harms" due to the abundance of inaccurate and false information.

This special issue will focus on the problem of modelling and assessing the
trust and veracity of content and information posted in social media,
including but not limited to automatic detection, tracking, and
visualization of deceptive content, rumors and malicious campaigns, and
their spread across media, languages and social networks. The aim of this
multidisciplinary special issue is to bring together researchers from
Information Retrieval, Web Science, Data Mining, Social Network Analysis,
Social Computing, Information Visualization, Natural Language Processing,
Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction, and to combine perspectives and
research from Computer Science and Sociology.


Scope & Topics of Interest

While all high-quality manuscripts focused on trust and veracity of
information will be considered, we are particularly interested in
approaches, applications and case studies with a focus on social media,
including online social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn),
media sharing applications (Flickr, Instagram, YouTube, DailyMotion, Vine,
Imgur), social news (Reddit, Fark, Slashdot), blogging (Tumblr, Blogger),
question-answering and knowledge exchange applications (Quora,
StackExchange), location-based social networks (Foursquare), reviewing
sites (epinions, yelp, TripAdvisor), collaborative authoring environments
(Wikipedia), social bookmarking and tagging (Pinterest, StumbleUpon,
delicious), and other applications and platforms extensively based on
user-generated content and feedback (referred to simply as "social media"
below for brevity). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:

- Detection of rumors, misinformation, tampered content and spam in social
media;
- Propagation of rumors and deceptive content within and across social
networks;
- Modelling social network user and information source trustworthiness;
- Methods of quantifying trust and reliability of shared information and
content;
- Identifying false claims and manipulations in user-generated content;
- Using inference and machine learning to distinguish between rumors and
facts;
- Identifying false claims and manipulations in user-generated content;
- Qualitative studies of rumors and deception in social media;
- Using Linked Open Data as a factual knowledge source;
- Spatio-temporal grounding of rumors and deceptive content;
- Annotation schemas and evaluation of trust, rumor and misinformation
detection;
- Visualization of rumor propagation and spheres of influence;
- Case studies of rumor and deception detection as currently practiced in
real-world settings (e.g., digital journalism, crisis response, public
order situations);
- Applications of rumor and deception detection methods and tools to
real-world problems (e.g., digital journalism, crisis response,
environmental communication).

All accepted manuscripts are expected to make a significant scientific
contribution and present a rigorous evaluation of the methods they present
(e.g., a comprehensive user study should accompany any new visualization
proposal).


Submission

For submission instructions and reviewing procedure, please refer tohttp://
tois.acm.org/authors.html  and add a comment in the email to the Assistant
to the Editor-In-Chief that the submission is intended for the special
issue on Trust and Veracity of Information in Social Media. All papers will
be reviewed by three external reviewers plus at least one guest editor.


Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: Mar 24, 2015
Notification to Authors (first round): Jun 23, 2015
Articles invited to revise for reconsideration due: Aug 18, 2015
Final Notification to authors: Oct 27, 2015
Camera-ready articles due: Nov 17, 2015


Guest Editors

Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK (Primary
Contact:k.bontcheva at dcs.shef.ac.uk)
Symeon Papadopoulos, CERTH-ITI, Greece (Primary Contact:papadop at iti.gr)
Eva Jaho, Athens Technology Center (ATC), Greece
Rob Procter, University of Warwick, UK
Mihai Lupu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Carlos Castillo, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
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