Facets of fairness in search and recommendation

Sahil Verma, Ruoyuan Gao, Chirag Shah

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Abstract

Several recent works have highlighted how search and recommender systems exhibit bias along different dimensions. Counteracting this bias and bringing a certain amount of fairness in search is crucial to not only creating a more balanced environment that considers relevance and diversity but also providing a more sustainable way forward for both content consumers and content producers. This short paper examines some of the recent works to define relevance, diversity, and related concepts. Then, it focuses on explaining the emerging concept of fairness in various recommendation settings. In doing so, this paper presents comparisons and highlights contracts among various measures, and gaps in our conceptual and evaluative frameworks.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationBias and Social Aspects in Search and Recommendation - 1st International Workshop, BIAS 2020, Proceedings
EditorsLudovico Boratto, Stefano Faralli, Mirko Marras, Giovanni Stilo
PublisherSpringer
Pages1-11
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783030524845
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Event1st International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation, BIAS 2020, held as part of the 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2020 - Lisbon, Portugal
Duration: Apr 14 2020Apr 14 2020

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume1245 CCIS
ISSN (Print)1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)1865-0937

Conference

Conference1st International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation, BIAS 2020, held as part of the 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2020
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityLisbon
Period4/14/204/14/20

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Computer Science
  • General Mathematics

Keywords

  • Evaluation metrics
  • Fair ranking
  • Fairness
  • Fairness in recommendation
  • Search bias

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