TY - JOUR PY - 2018// TI - On measuring bias in online information JO - SIGMOD record A1 - Pitoura, Evaggelia A1 - Tsaparas, Panayiotis A1 - Flouris, Giorgos A1 - Fundulaki, Irini A1 - Papadakos, Panagiotis A1 - Abiteboul, Serge A1 - Weikum, Gerhard SP - 16 EP - 21 VL - 46 IS - 4 N2 - Bias in online information has recently become a pressing issue, with search engines, social networks and recommendation services being accused of exhibiting some form of bias. In this vision paper, we make the case for a systematic approach towards measuring bias. To this end, we discuss formal measures for quantifying the various types of bias, we outline the system components necessary for realizing them, and we highlight the related research challenges and open problems.

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LA - en SN - 0163-5808 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3186549.3186553 ID - ref1 ER -