Do You MIND? Reflections on the MIND Dataset for Research on Diversity in News Recommendations

Authors
Publication date 2023
Host editors
  • L. Boratto
  • S. Faralli
  • M. Marras
  • G. Stilo
Book title Advances in Bias and Fairness in Information Retrieval
Book subtitle 4th International Workshop, BIAS 2023, Dublin, Ireland, April 2, 2023 : revised selected papers
ISBN
  • 9783031372483
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783031372490
Series Communications in Computer and Information Science
Event 4th International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation, BIAS 2023, held as part of the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2023
Pages (from-to) 147-154
Number of pages 8
Publisher Cham: Springer
Organisations
  • Faculty of Law (FdR) - Institute for Information Law (IViR)
Abstract

The MIND dataset is at the moment of writing the most extensive dataset available for the research and development of news recommender systems. This work analyzes the suitability of the dataset for research on diverse news recommendations. On the one hand we analyze the effect the different steps in the recommendation pipeline have on the distribution of article categories, and on the other hand we check whether the supplied data would be sufficient for more sophisticated diversity analysis. We conclude that while MIND is a great step forward, there is still a lot of room for improvement.

Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37249-0_12
Other links https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85169031434
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