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Open, to What End? A Capability-Theoretic Perspective on Open Search
Nicola Neophytou, Bhaskar Mitra
The hegemony of control over our search platforms by a few large corporations raises justifiable concerns, particularly in light of emerging geopolitical tensions and growing insta…
Information Access of the Oppressed: Freirean Design for Emancipatory Information Access
Bhaskar Mitra, Nicola Neophytou, Sireesh Gururaja
Online information access (IA) platforms are targets of authoritarian capture. We explore the question of how to safeguard our platforms and ensure emancipatory outcomes through th…
Embedding Cultural Diversity in Prototype-based Recommender Systems
Armin Moradi, Nicola Neophytou, Florian Carichon +1
Popularity bias in recommender systems can increase cultural overrepresentation by favoring norms from dominant cultures and marginalizing underrepresented groups. This issue is cr…
Advancing Cultural Inclusivity: Optimizing Embedding Spaces for Balanced Music Recommendations
Armin Moradi, Nicola Neophytou, Golnoosh Farnadi
Popularity bias in music recommendation systems -- where artists and tracks with the highest listen counts are recommended more often -- can also propagate biases along demographic…
Promoting Fair Vaccination Strategies Through Influence Maximization: A Case Study on COVID-19 Spread
Nicola Neophytou, Afaf Taïk, Golnoosh Farnadi
The aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic saw more severe outcomes for racial minority groups and economically-deprived communities. Such disparities can be explained by several facto…
PrivFairFL: Privacy-Preserving Group Fairness in Federated Learning
Sikha Pentyala, Nicola Neophytou, Anderson Nascimento +2
Group fairness ensures that the outcome of machine learning (ML) based decision making systems are not biased towards a certain group of people defined by a sensitive attribute suc…