International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search
and Recommendation (Bias 2020)

April 14, 2020, Lisbon, Portugal

Scope & Topics

The International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation (Bias 2020) to be held as part of the 42^nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2020). Search and recommendation are getting closer and closer as research areas. Though they require fundamentally different inputs, i.e., the user is asked to provide a query in search, while implicit and explicit feedback is leveraged in recommendation, existing search algorithms are being personalized based on users' profiles and recommender systems are optimizing their output on the ranking quality.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following

• Data Set Collection and Preparation
• Countermeasure Design and Development
• Decision-making in presence of uncertainties
• Evaluation Protocol and Metric Formulation
• Case Study Exploration
• Social networks
• Healthcare systems
• Managing imbalances and inequalities within data sets
• E-commerce platforms
• Educational environments

Paper Submission

All submissions must be written in English. Authors should consult ECIR paper guidelines and Fuhr’s guide to avoid common IR evaluation mistakes for the preparation of their papers. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelinesand use their proceedings templates, either LaTeX or WordPapers should be submitted as PDF files to Easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bias2020 Please be aware that at least one author per paper needs to register and attend the workshop to present the work.

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