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Keyword Recommendation for Fair Search

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Advances in Bias and Fairness in Information Retrieval (BIAS 2022)

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Online search engines are an extremely popular tool for seeking information. However, the results returned sometimes exhibit undesirable or even wrongful forms of bias, such as with respect to gender or race. In this paper, we consider the problem of fair keyword recommendation, in which the goal is to suggest keywords that are relevant to a user’s search query, but exhibit less (or opposite) bias. We present a multi-objective optimization method that uses word embeddings to suggest alternate keywords for biased keywords present in a search query. We perform a qualitative analysis on pairs of subReddits from Reddit.com (r/Republican vs. r/democrats). Our results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed method and illustrate subtle linguistic differences between subReddits.

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S. Soundarajan is supported by NSF #2047224.

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    Harshit Mishra & Sucheta Soundarajan

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  1. University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

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  2. Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

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  3. University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

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  4. University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy

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Mishra, H., Soundarajan, S. (2022). Keyword Recommendation for Fair Search. In: Boratto, L., Faralli, S., Marras, M., Stilo, G. (eds) Advances in Bias and Fairness in Information Retrieval. BIAS 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1610. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09316-6_12

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