Bias in Retrieval Systems

Recent studies have shown that information retrieval systems may exhibit stereotypical gender biases in outcomes which may lead to discrimination against minority groups, such as different genders, and impact users’ decision making and judgements. ...

Within many domains, such as news, medicine and patent, documents contain a variety of fields such as title, author, body, source, etc. As such fielded retrieval models that query across these fields are often employed. It is largely presumed ...

Bias quantification of retrieval functions with the help of document retrievability scores has recently evolved as an important evaluation measure for recall-oriented retrieval applications. While numerous studies have evaluated retrieval bias of ...