Toward creating a fairer ranking in search engine results

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Highlights:

• Top web search results from search engines are topically biased.

• Diversity fairness can improve diversity and relevance in retrieval results

• Performance of fair ranking strategies depend on fairness constraint and data.

• The lower the diversity bias, the higher the relevance, diversity and novelty.

摘要

•Top web search results from search engines are topically biased.•Diversity fairness can improve diversity and relevance in retrieval results•Performance of fair ranking strategies depend on fairness constraint and data.•The lower the diversity bias, the higher the relevance, diversity and novelty.

论文关键词:Information retrieval,Search engine bias,Fairness ranking,Relevance,Diversity,Novelty,00-01,99-00

论文评审过程:Received 29 April 2019, Revised 28 September 2019, Accepted 2 October 2019, Available online 16 October 2019, Version of Record 16 October 2019.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2019.102138