* AIM OF THE WORKSHOP *

The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion about issues
related to information credibility and its evaluation.

As computers and computer networks become more sophisticated, a huge
amount of information, such as that found in Web documents, has been
accumulated and circulated. Such information gives people a framework for organizing their daily
lives. A well-functioning society needs technology that can be used to
manage this wealth of information and, in particular, investigate its credibility.
This technology would be able to handle a wide range of tasks:
extracting credible information related to a given topic,
organizing this information, detecting its provenance, clarifying
background, facts, and various related opinions and the distribution of
them, and so on. Especially, as the Web is becoming a major source of
information nowadays, it is necessary to provide efficient and reliable
methods for evaluation of Web content's trustworthiness.

* TOPICS *

We invite submissions on any aspects of information credibility on the
Web. Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Information credibility evaluation and its applications
- Content analysis for credibility evaluation
- Sentiment analysis of content
- Credibility of Web search results
- Search models and applications for trustworthy content
- Conflicting opinion detection and analysis
- Credibility evaluation of user-generated content
- Information credibility evaluation in social networks
- Analysis of information dissemination
- Estimation of author and publishing venue reputation
- Spatial and temporal aspects in information credibility
- Estimation of information age, provenance and validity
- Sociological and psychological aspects of information credibility
- Users study for information credibility
- Risk assessment of information credibility
- Multimedia content credibility
- Persuasive technologies
- Information credibility in online advertising and Internet monetization
- Object identification on the Web

* IMPORTANT DATES *

- July 20, 2008 - Paper submission
- August 10, 2008 - Notification of acceptance
- August 15, 2008 - Camera-ready paper submission
- October 30, 2008 - Workshop

* SUBMISSION *

All accepted papers will appear in CIKM Workshops Proceedings by ACM
Press. Submissions should be sent in English in PDF format. They should adhere
to ACM formatting guidelines and should not exceed 8 pages. Papers must
be original and have not been submitted for publication elsewhere. At
least one author of accepted submissions should register and participate
in the workshop.

* ORGANIZATION *

General Chairs:

- Katsumi Tanaka Kyoto University, Japan
- Takashi Matsuyama Kyoto University, Japan
- Ee-Peng Lim Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

PC Chair:

- Adam Jatowt Kyoto University, Japan

Program Committee:

- Witold Abramowicz Poznan University of Economics, Poland
- Sourav S Bhowmick Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Yunbo Cao Microsoft Research Asia, China
- Jean-Yves Delort University of Montpellier 2, France
- Pavel Dmitriev Yahoo!, USA
- Rino Falcone CNR, Italy
- Kentaro Inui NAIST, Japan
- Daxin Jiang Microsoft Research Asia, China
- Yoshikiyo Kato NICT, Japan
- Masaru Kitsuregawa University of Tokyo, Japan
- Marek Kowalkiewicz SAP Research, Australia
- Dariusz Krol Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
- Sadao Kurohashi Kyoto University, Japan
- Ee-Peng Lim Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Yutaka Matsuo University of Tokyo, Japan
- Hisashi Miyamori Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
- Manabu Okumura Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
- Kotagiri Ramamohanarao University of Melbourne, Australia
- Hideaki Takeda NII, Japan
- Katsumi Tanaka Kyoto University, Japan
- Martin Wolpers Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
- Masatoshi Yoshikawa Kyoto University, Japan

* CONTACT *

Adam Jatowt
email: adam [at] dl [dot] kuis [dot] kyoto-u [dot] ac [dot] jp
phone/fax: +81-75-231-4282