Algorithmic bias Ranking systems

Reputation (in)dependence in ranking systems: demographics influence over output disparities

Your reputation on the Web does not depend only on your behavior, but also on your sensitive attributes. Concretely, belonging to a minority demographic group affects your reputation and how your preferences are valued in online ranking systems. In a recent SIGIR 2020 paper with Guilherme Ramos, we considered reputation-based ranking systems, which is a …

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