The last several years have brought a growing body of work on ensuring that recommender systems are in some sense consumer-fair -- that is, they provide comparable quality of service, accuracy of representation, and other effects to their users. However, there are many different strategies to make systems more fair and a range of intervention points. In this position paper, we build on ongoing work to highlight the need for researchers and practitioners to attend to the details of their application, users, and the fairness objective they aim to achieve, and adopt interventions that are appropriate to the situation. We argue that consumer fairness should be a creative endeavor flowing from the particularities of the specific problem to be solved.
翻译:过去几年来,为确保建议系统在某种意义上是消费者公平的 -- -- 也就是说,它们为用户提供了相当的服务质量、代表性的准确性和其他效果,从而带来了越来越多的工作。然而,有许多不同的战略可以使系统更加公平和一系列干预点。在本立场文件中,我们以正在进行的工作为基础,强调研究人员和从业人员需要关注其应用细节、用户以及他们要实现的公平目标,并采取适合情况的干预措施。我们主张,消费者公平应当是需要解决的具体问题的特殊性的一种创造性努力。