Cognitive biases in search: a review and reflection of cognitive biases in Information Retrieval

L Azzopardi - Proceedings of the 2021 conference on human …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
People are susceptible to an array of cognitive biases, which can result in systematic errors
and deviations from rational decision making. Over the past decade, an increasing amount …

Fair ranking: a critical review, challenges, and future directions

GK Patro, L Porcaro, L Mitchell, Q Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Ranking, recommendation, and retrieval systems are widely used in online platforms and
other societal systems, including e-commerce, media-streaming, admissions, gig platforms …

Leveraging large language models in conversational recommender systems

L Friedman, S Ahuja, D Allen, Z Tan… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
A Conversational Recommender System (CRS) offers increased transparency and control to
users by enabling them to engage with the system through a real-time multi-turn dialogue …

Fairness in information access systems

MD Ekstrand, A Das, R Burke… - Foundations and Trends …, 2022 - nowpublishers.com
Recommendation, information retrieval, and other information access systems pose unique
challenges for investigating and applying the fairness and non-discrimination concepts that …

Unbiased learning-to-rank with biased feedback

T Joachims, A Swaminathan, T Schnabel - Proceedings of the tenth …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Implicit feedback (eg, clicks, dwell times, etc.) is an abundant source of data in human-
interactive systems. While implicit feedback has many advantages (eg, it is inexpensive to …

Clicks can be cheating: Counterfactual recommendation for mitigating clickbait issue

W Wang, F Feng, X He, H Zhang, TS Chua - Proceedings of the 44th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Recommendation is a prevalent and critical service in information systems. To provide
personalized suggestions to users, industry players embrace machine learning, more …

Position bias estimation for unbiased learning to rank in personal search

X Wang, N Golbandi, M Bendersky, D Metzler… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
A well-known challenge in learning from click data is its inherent bias and most notably
position bias. Traditional click models aim to extract the‹ query, document› relevance and …

Bias in algorithmic filtering and personalization

E Bozdag - Ethics and information technology, 2013 - Springer
Online information intermediaries such as Facebook and Google are slowly replacing
traditional media channels thereby partly becoming the gatekeepers of our society. To deal …

Unbiased learning to rank with unbiased propensity estimation

Q Ai, K Bi, C Luo, J Guo, WB Croft - The 41st international ACM SIGIR …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Learning to rank with biased click data is a well-known challenge. A variety of methods has
been explored to debias click data for learning to rank such as click models, result …

Learning to rank with selection bias in personal search

X Wang, M Bendersky, D Metzler… - Proceedings of the 39th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Click-through data has proven to be a critical resource for improving search ranking quality.
Though a large amount of click data can be easily collected by search engines, various …