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Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, Confidentiality, Transparency, and Safety in Information Retrieval (FACTS-IR)

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This workshop explores challenges in responsible information retrieval system development and deployment. The focus is on determining actionable research agendas on five key dimensions of responsible information retrieval: fairness, accountability, confidentiality, transparency, and safety. Rather than just a mini-conference, this workshop is an event during which participants are expected to work. The workshop brings together a diverse set of researchers and practitioners interested in contributing to the development of a technical research agenda for responsible information retrieval.

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            SIGIR'19: Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
            July 2019
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            DOI:10.1145/3331184
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            1. accountability
            2. confidentiality
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            4. responsible information retrieval
            5. safety
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            • (2023)The Archive Query Log: Mining Millions of Search Result Pages of Hundreds of Search Engines from 25 Years of Web ArchivesProceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval10.1145/3539618.3591890(2848-2860)Online publication date: 19-Jul-2023
            • (2021)FACTS-IRACM SIGIR Forum10.1145/3458553.345855653:2(20-43)Online publication date: 23-Mar-2021
            • (2020)When Are Search Completion Suggestions Problematic?Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/34152424:CSCW2(1-25)Online publication date: 15-Oct-2020

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