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most citedAssessing Viewpoint Diversity in Search Results Using Ranking Fairness Metrics

28 citations · 113 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

cs.CL2026

Consensus vs. Dissent: Dynamic LLM Modeling of Subjective Preferences in Group Recommenders

Cedric Waterschoot, Nava Tintarev, Francesco Barile

Previous work in group recommender systems has demonstrated a sensitivity to the distribution of preferences within a group. Specifically, the selection of the preference aggregati…

cs.CY2026

Keeping an Eye on AI: A Framework for Effective Human Oversight of AI Systems

Susanne Gaube, Markus Langer, Tim Miller +17

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in high-risk, decision-making scenarios presents technical, safety, and normative challenges; problems that may only be ameliorated by human…

cs.CV2025

A Little More Like This: Text-to-Image Retrieval with Vision-Language Models Using Relevance Feedback

Bulat Khaertdinov, Mirela Popa, Nava Tintarev

Large vision-language models (VLMs) enable intuitive visual search using natural language queries. However, improving their performance often requires fine-tuning and scaling to la…

cs.CL2025★ 3 cited

Consistent Explainers or Unreliable Narrators? Understanding LLM-generated Group Recommendations

Cedric Waterschoot, Nava Tintarev, Francesco Barile

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being implemented as joint decision-makers and explanation generators for Group Recommender Systems (GRS). In this paper, we evaluate…

cs.HC2025

Patient-Centred Explainability in IVF Outcome Prediction

Adarsa Sivaprasad, Ehud Reiter, David McLernon +3

This paper evaluates the user interface of an in vitro fertility (IVF) outcome prediction tool, focussing on its understandability for patients or potential patients. We analyse fo…

cs.CL2025★ 7 cited

The Pitfalls of Growing Group Complexity: LLMs and Social Choice-Based Aggregation for Group Recommendations

Cedric Waterschoot, Nava Tintarev, Francesco Barile

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly applied in recommender systems aimed at both individuals and groups. Previously, Group Recommender Systems (GRS) often used social cho…

cs.HC2025★ 11 cited

With Friends Like These, Who Needs Explanations? Evaluating User Understanding of Group Recommendations

Cedric Waterschoot, Raciel Yera Toledo, Nava Tintarev +1

Group Recommender Systems (GRS) employing social choice-based aggregation strategies have previously been explored in terms of perceived consensus, fairness, and satisfaction. At t…

cs.IR2025

OKRA: an Explainable, Heterogeneous, Multi-Stakeholder Job Recommender System

Roan Schellingerhout, Francesco Barile, Nava Tintarev

The use of recommender systems in the recruitment domain has been labeled as 'high-risk' in recent legislation. As a result, strict requirements regarding explainability and fairne…

cs.IR2025★ 3 cited

De-centering the (Traditional) User: Multistakeholder Evaluation of Recommender Systems

Robin Burke, Gediminas Adomavicius, Toine Bogers +7

Multistakeholder recommender systems are those that account for the impacts and preferences of multiple groups of individuals, not just the end users receiving recommendations. Due…

cs.CV2024

Does SpatioTemporal information benefit Two video summarization benchmarks?

Aashutosh Ganesh, Mirela Popa, Daan Odijk +1

An important aspect of summarizing videos is understanding the temporal context behind each part of the video to grasp what is and is not important. Video summarization models have…

cs.HC2024★ 1 cited

Bridging the Transparency Gap: Exploring Multi-Stakeholder Preferences for Targeted Advertisement Explanations

Dina Zilbershtein, Francesco Barile, Daan Odijk +1

Limited transparency in targeted advertising on online content delivery platforms can breed mistrust for both viewers (of the content and ads) and advertisers. This user study (n=8…

cs.HC2024

Creating Healthy Friction: Determining Stakeholder Requirements of Job Recommendation Explanations

Roan Schellingerhout, Francesco Barile, Nava Tintarev

The increased use of information retrieval in recruitment, primarily through job recommender systems (JRSs), can have a large impact on job seekers, recruiters, and companies. As a…

cs.IR2024★ 2 cited

Navigating the Thin Line: Examining User Behavior in Search to Detect Engagement and Backfire Effects

F. M. Cau, N. Tintarev

Opinionated users often seek information that aligns with their preexisting beliefs while dismissing contradictory evidence due to confirmation bias. This conduct hinders their abi…

cs.AI2023★ 8 cited

Evaluation of Human-Understandability of Global Model Explanations using Decision Tree

Adarsa Sivaprasad, Ehud Reiter, Nava Tintarev +1

In explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) research, the predominant focus has been on interpreting models for experts and practitioners. Model agnostic and local explanation app…

cs.IR2023★ 2 cited

Explaining Search Result Stances to Opinionated People

Z. Wu, T. Draws, F. Cau +3

People use web search engines to find information before forming opinions, which can lead to practical decisions with different levels of impact. The cognitive effort of search can…

cs.HC2023

A Co-design Study for Multi-Stakeholder Job Recommender System Explanations

Roan Schellingerhout, Francesco Barile, Nava Tintarev

Recent legislation proposals have significantly increased the demand for eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in many businesses, especially in so-called `high-risk' domains,…

cs.CL2022

Beyond Digital "Echo Chambers": The Role of Viewpoint Diversity in Political Discussion

Rishav Hada, Amir Ebrahimi Fard, Sarah Shugars +5

Increasingly taking place in online spaces, modern political conversations are typically perceived to be unproductively affirming -- siloed in so called ``echo chambers'' of exclus…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

"It's Not Just Hate'': A Multi-Dimensional Perspective on Detecting Harmful Speech Online

Federico Bianchi, Stefanie Anja Hills, Patricia Rossini +3

Well-annotated data is a prerequisite for good Natural Language Processing models. Too often, though, annotation decisions are governed by optimizing time or annotator agreement. W…

cs.IR2021★ 2 cited

Designing Explanations for Group Recommender Systems

A. Felfernig, N. Tintarev, T. N. T. Trang +1

Explanations are used in recommender systems for various reasons. Users have to be supported in making (high-quality) decisions more quickly. Developers of recommender systems want…

cs.HC2021★ 12 cited

Disparate Impact Diminishes Consumer Trust Even for Advantaged Users

Tim Draws, Zoltán Szlávik, Benjamin Timmermans +3

Systems aiming to aid consumers in their decision-making (e.g., by implementing persuasive techniques) are more likely to be effective when consumers trust them. However, recent re…

cs.IR2021

Operationalizing Framing to Support Multiperspective Recommendations of Opinion Pieces

Mats Mulder, Oana Inel, Jasper Oosterman +1

Diversity in personalized news recommender systems is often defined as dissimilarity, and based on topic diversity (e.g., corona versus farmers strike). Diversity in news media, ho…

cs.IR2020★ 28 cited

Assessing Viewpoint Diversity in Search Results Using Ranking Fairness Metrics

Tim Draws, Nava Tintarev, Ujwal Gadiraju +2

The way pages are ranked in search results influences whether the users of search engines are exposed to more homogeneous, or rather to more diverse viewpoints. However, this viewp…

cs.CL2020★ 9 cited

Helping users discover perspectives: Enhancing opinion mining with joint topic models

Tim Draws, Jody Liu, Nava Tintarev

Support or opposition concerning a debated claim such as abortion should be legal can have different underlying reasons, which we call perspectives. This paper explores how opinion…

cs.IR2020★ 5 cited

Contextual Personalized Re-Ranking of Music Recommendations through Audio Features

Boning Gong, Mesut Kaya, Nava Tintarev

Users are able to access millions of songs through music streaming services like Spotify, Pandora, and Deezer. Access to such large catalogs, created a need for relevant song recom…