Viewpoint Diversity in Search Results

Abstract

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Explaining Search Result Stances to Opinionated People

“…Search for debated topics is highly subjective: when users search the web to seek advice or form opinions on these kinds of topics, not just search result relevance but also the stance of content is influential [3,14,15,33,38]. To mitigate undesired effects such as biased opinion change, earlier work has measured and increased the fairness [18,50,53] and viewpoint diversity in search results [13,34,47].…”

“…To train, test, and explain the stance detection model, we considered a public data set containing search results related to three debated topics (i.e., atheism, intellectual property rights, and school uniforms) [13]. 2 [13] motivate the selection of these three topics because they offer valid arguments for both supporting and opposing viewpoints.…”