Fair Ranking as Fair Division: Impact-Based Individual Fairness in Ranking. (arXiv:2206.07247v1 [cs.IR])

Web: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07247

Rankings have become the primary interface in two-sided online markets. Many
have noted that the rankings not only affect the satisfaction of the users
(e.g., customers, listeners, employers, travelers), but that the position in
the ranking allocates exposure -- and thus economic opportunity -- to the
ranked items (e.g., articles, products, songs, job seekers, restaurants,
hotels). This has raised questions of fairness to the items, and most existing
works have addressed fairness by explicitly linking item exposure to item
relevance. …

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