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Perception-Aware Bias Detection for Query Suggestions
Fabian Haak, Philipp Schaer
Bias in web search has been in the spotlight of bias detection research for quite a while. At the same time, little attention has been paid to query suggestions in this regard. Awa…
Auditing Search Query Suggestion Bias Through Recursive Algorithm Interrogation
Fabian Haak, Philipp Schaer
Despite their important role in online information search, search query suggestions have not been researched as much as most other aspects of search engines. Although reasons for t…
Report on the Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2024) at SIGIR 2024
Timo Breuer, Christin Katharina Kreutz, Norbert Fuhr +15
This paper is a report of the Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA) workshop at SIGIR 2024. The workshop had two keynotes, a panel discussion, nine lightning talk…
Replicability Measures for Longitudinal Information Retrieval Evaluation
Jüri Keller, Timo Breuer, Philipp Schaer
Information Retrieval (IR) systems are exposed to constant changes in most components. Documents are created, updated, or deleted, the information needs are changing, and even rele…
Evaluation of Temporal Change in IR Test Collections
Jüri Keller, Timo Breuer, Philipp Schaer
Information retrieval systems have been evaluated using the Cranfield paradigm for many years. This paradigm allows a systematic, fair, and reproducible evaluation of different ret…