Publications

2023

Ngozi Ihemelandu and Michael D. Ekstrand. 2023. “Inference at Scale: Significance Testing for Large Search and Recommendation Experiments”. Short paper in Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’23) (SIGIR ‘23). ACM, 5 pp. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3539618.3592004.

Christine Pinney, Amifa Raj, Alex Hanna, and Michael D. Ekstrand. 2023. “Much Ado About Gender: Current Practices and Future Recommendations for Appropriate Gender-Aware Information Access”. In ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR ‘23). DOI:10.1145/3576840.3578316.

2022

Mohammad Aliannejadi, Theo Huibers, Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2022. “The Effect of Prolonged Exposure to Online Education on a Classroom Search Companion”. In International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages (CLEF 2022). Online. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-13643-6_5

Jonathan Stray, Alon Halevy, Parisa Assar, Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Craig Boutilier, Amar Ashar, Lex Beattie, Michael Ekstrand, Claire Leibowicz, Connie Moon Sehat, Sara Johansen, Lianne Kerlin, David Vickrey, Spandana Singh, Sanne Vrijenhoek, Amy Zhang, Mckane Andrus, Natali Helberger, Polina Proutskova, Tanushree Mitra, and Nina Vasan. 2022. Building Human Values into Recommender Systems: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis. Preprint manuscript arXiv:2207.10192 [cs.IR].

Amifa Raj, Michael D. Ekstrand. 2022. “Fire Dragon and Unicorn Princess; Gender Stereotypes and Children’s Products in Search Engine Responses”. In Proceedings of SIGIR ecom’22: ACM SIGIR Workshop on eCommerce.

Maria Soledad Pera, Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, THeo Huibers. 2022. “Let’s Learn from Children: Scaffolding to Enable Search as Learning in the Educational Environment”. In 3rd International Workshop on Investigating Learning During Web Search (IWILDS 2022), at SIGIR 2022.

Amifa Raj, Michael D. Ekstrand. 2022. “Measuring Fairness in Ranked Results: An Analytical and Empirical Comparison”. In SIGIR ‘22: Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval(July 2022), 726-736. DOI:10.1145/3477495.3532018.

Michael D. Ekstrand, Anubrata Das, Robin Burke, and Fernando Diaz. 2022. “Fairness and Discrimination in Information Access Systems”. Foundations and Trends® in Information Retrieval 16(1–2), 1–177. DOI:10.1561/1500000079.

Jie Zou, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Evangelos Kanoulas, Maria Soledad Pera, and Yiqun Liu. 2022. “Users Meet Clarifying Questions: Toward a Better Understanding of User Interactions for Search Clarification”. In ACM Transactions on Information Systems. Online. DOI:10.1145/3524110

Nasim Sonboli, Robin Burke, Michael Ekstrand, and Rishabh Mehrotra. 2022. The Multisided Complexity of Fairness in Recommender Systems. AI Magazine 43 (June 2022), 164–176. DOI:10.1002/aaai.12054.

Maria Soledad Pera, Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers, and Jerry Alan Fails. 2022. “6th KidRec Workshop: Information Retrieval Systems for Children in the COVID-19 Era”. In Proceedings of the 21th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC 2022).

Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “Ethical Implications for Children’s Use of Search Tools in an Educational Setting”. In International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction- Special Issue: Ethics in CCI, Volume 32, June 2022, 100386. DOI:10.1016/j.ijcci.2021.100386.

Maria Soledad Pera, Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers, Jerry Alan Fails. 2022. “6th KidRec Workshop: Information Retrieval Systems for Children in the COVID-19 Era”. In proceedings of IDC ‘22: Interaction Design and Children.

Monica Landoni, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Theo Huibers, Emiliana Murgia, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2022. “Have a Clue! The Effect of Visual Cues on Children’s Search Behavior in the Classroom”. Short paper in Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR ‘22). ACM, 301-305 pp. DOI:10.1145/3498366.3505845.

Garrett Allen, Ashlee Milton, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2022. “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: Why Using the “Right” Readability Formula in Children’s Web Search Matters”. Full paper to appear in Proceedings of the 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR ‘22).

Michael D. Ekstrand, Anubrata Das, Robin Burke, and Fernando Diaz. 2021. “Fairness in Recommender Systems”. In Recommender System Handbook, 3rd edition. Francesco Ricci, Lior Roach, and Bracha Shapira, eds. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-1-0716-2196-7. DOI:10.1007/978-1-0716-2197-4_18.

Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “4Report on the 1st IR for children 2000–2020: where are we now? (IR4C) workshop at SIGIR 2021: the need to spotlight research on children information retrieval”. In SIGIR Forum. Volume 55, Issue 2, December 2021, Article 11pp 1–7. DOI:10.1145/3527546.3527560.

2021

Monica Landoni, Maria Soledad Pera, Jerry Alan Fails, Emiliana Murgia, Natalia Kucirkova, Theo Huibers. 2021. “Report on the 1st IR for children 2000–2020: where are we now? (IR4C) workshop at SIGIR 2021: the need to spotlight research on children information retrieval”. In SIGIR Forum. Volume 55, Issue 2, December 2021, Article No.: 11, pp 1–7. DOI:10.1145/3527546.3527560.

Monica Landoni, Maria Soledad Pera, Jerry Alan Fails, Emiliana Murgia, Natalia Kucirkova, Theo Huibers. 2021. “4th KidRec - what does good look like: from design, research, and practice to policy”. In SIGIR Forum. Volume 54, Issue 2, December 2020, Article No.: 6pp 1–7. DOI:10.1145/3483382.3483391.

Himan Abdollahpouri, Toine Bogers, Bamshad Mobasher, Casper Petersen, Maria Soledad Soledad Pera. 2021. “ComplexRec 2021: Fifth Workshop on Recommendation in Complex Environments”. In Proceedings of the 15th Fifteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys’21). ACM, 775-777 pp. DOI:10.1145/3460231.3470928.

Garrett Allen, Jie Yang, Maria Soledad Pera and Ujwal Gadiraju. 2021. “Using Conversational Artificial Intelligence to Support Children’s Search in the Classroom”. Presented at CUI@CSCW ‘21 Workshop.

Mohammad Aliannejadi, Fabio Crestani, Theo Huibers, Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “The Impact of User Demographics and Task Types on Cross-App Mobile Search”. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS), pp. 223-234.

Lawrence Spear, Ashlee Milton, Garrett Allen, Amifa Raj, Michael Green, Michael D. Ekstrand, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “Baby Shark to Barracuda: Analyzing Children’s Music Listening Behavior”. In Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2021 Late-Breaking Results).

Anu Shrestha, Francesca Spezzano, Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “An Empirical Analysis of Collaborative Recommender Systems Robustness to Shilling Attacks”. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Online Misinformation-and Harm-Aware Recommender Systems (OHARS 2021).

Ngozi Ihemelandu, and Michael D. Ekstrand. 2021. “Statistical Inference: The Missing Piece of RecSys Experiment Reliability Discourse”.

Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Emiliana Murgia, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “Getting to Know You: Search Logs and Expert Grading to Define Children’s Search Roles in the Classroom”. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems (DESIRES).

Brody Downs, Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Landau Wright, Casey Kennington, Jerry Alan Fails. 2021. “KidSpell: Making a difference in spellchecking for children”. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction. DOI:10.1016/j.ijcci.2021.100373.

Theo Huibers, Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “IR for Children 2000-2020: Where Are We Now?”. In Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ‘21). ACM, 2689-2692 pp. DOI:10.1145/3404835.3462822.

Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Jerry Alan Fails, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “5th KidRec Workshop: Search and Recommendation Technology through the Lens of a Teacher (KidRec)”. In Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children (IDC 21). ACM, 658-661 pp. DOI:10.1145/3459990.3460655.

Nuhil Mehdy, Michael D. Ekstrand, Bart Knijnenburg, and Hoda Mehrpouyan. 2021. Privacy as a Planned Behavior: Effects of Situational Factors on Privacy Perceptions and Plans. In Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP ’21). DOI:10.1145/3450613.3456829.

Ashlee Milton, Garrett Allen, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “To Infinity and Beyond! Accessibility is the Future for Kids’ Search Engines”. In Proceedings of the IR for Children 2000-2020: Where Are We Now? Workshop co-located with the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

Mohammad Aliannejadi, Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “Right Way, Right Time: Towards a Better Comprehension of Young Students’ Needs when Looking for Relevant Search Results”. Short paper in Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP ‘21). ACM, 95-100 pp. DOI:10.1145/3450613.3456843.

Garrett Allen, Benjamin L Peterson, Dhanush kumar Ratakonda, Mostofa Najmus Sakib, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, Katherine Landau Wright, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “Engage!: Co-designing Search Engine Result Pages to Foster Interactions”. In Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children (IDC ‘21’). ACM, pp 583-587.

Amifa Raj, Ashlee Milton, Michael D. Ekstrand. 2021. “Pink for Princesses, Blue for Superheroes: The Need to Examine Gender Stereotypes in Kid’s Products in Search and Recommendations”. In Proceedings of the 5th International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children and Recommender and Information Retrieval Systems: Search and Recommendation Technology through the Lens of a Teacher (KidRec 2021), co-located with ACM IDC 2021.

Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “All Together Now: Teachers as Research Partners in the Design of Search Technology for the Classroom”. In Proceedings of the 5th International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children and Recommender and Information Retrieval Systems: Search and Recommendation Technology through the Lens of a Teacher (KidRec 2021), co-located with ACM IDC 2021.

Garrett Allen, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “CASTing a Net: Supporting Teachers with Search Technology”. In Proceedings of the 5th International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children and Recommender and Information Retrieval Systems: Search and Recommendation Technology through the Lens of a Teacher (KidRec 2021), co-located with ACM IDC 2021.

Ömer Kırnap, Fernando Diaz, Asia J. Biega, Michael D. Ekstrand, Ben Carterette, and Emine Yılmaz. 2021. Estimation of Fair Ranking Metrics with Incomplete Judgments. In Proceedings of The Web Conference 2021 (TheWebConf 2021). DOI:10.1145/3442381.3450080.

Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Emiliana Murgia, Mohammad Aliannejadi, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “Somewhere over the Rainbow: Exploring the Sense for Relevance in Children”. Short paper in Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2021 (ECCE 2021). ACM, 1-5 pp. DOI:10.1145/3452853.3452885.

Casey Kennington, Jerry Alan Fails, Katherine Landau Wright, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “Spellchecking for Children in Web Search: a Natural Language Interface Case-study”. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Bridging Human-Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing. ACL, 6 pp.

Garrett Allen, Brody Downs, Aprajita Shukla, Casey Kennington, Jerry Alan Fails, Katherine Landau Wright, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “BiG-BERT: Classifying Educational Web Resources for Kindergarten-12th Grades”. Short paper in Proceedings of the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR ‘21). ACM, pp 176-184.

Mohammad Aliannejadi, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Emiliana Murgia, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “Children’s Perspective on How Emojis Help Them to Recognise Relevant Results: Do Actions Speak Louder Than Words?”. Short paper in Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR ‘21). ACM, 301-305 pp. DOI:10.1145/3406522.3446058.

Michael D. Ekstrand and Daniel Kluver. 2021. Exploring Author Gender in Book Rating and Recommendation. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction 31(3) (2021). DOI:10.1145/3442381.3450080.

2020

Ashlee Milton, Oghenemaro Anuyah, Lawrence Spear, Katherine Landau Wright, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2020. “A Ranking Strategy to Promote Resources Supporting the Classroom Environment”. Long Paper in Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-AIT ‘20). IEEE/WIC/ACM. DOI:10.1109/WIIAT50758.2020.00021

Fernando Diaz, Bhaskar Mitra, Michael D. Ekstrand, Asia J. Biega, and Ben Carterette. 2020. “Evaluating Stochastic Rankings with Expected Exposure”. In Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ‘20). ACM, 10 pp. DOI:10.1145/3340531.3411962.

Michael D. Ekstrand. 2020. “LensKit for Python”. In Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ‘20). ACM, 15 pp. DOI:10.1145/3340531.3412778.

Ashlee Milton, Levesson Batista, Garrett Allen, Siqi Gao, Yiu-Kai D Ng, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2020. “‘Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover’: Exploring Book Traits Children Favor”. Short paper in Proceedings of the Fourteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys ’20). ACM, 6 pp. DOI:10.1145/3383313.3418490.

Amifa Raj, Connor Wood, Ananda Montoly and Michael D. Ekstrand. 2020. “Comparing Fair Ranking Metrics”. To appear in Proceedings of the 3rd FAccTRec Workshop on Responsible Recommendation at 14th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 20).

Ion Madrazo Azpiazu and Maria Soledad Pera. 2020. “An Analysis of Transfer Learning Methods for Multilingual Readability Assessment”. Poster paper in Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP ‘20). ACM, 95-100 pp. DOI:10.1145/3386392.3397605.

Monica Landoni, Maria Soledad Pera, Emiliana Murgia, and Theo Huibers. 2020. “Inside Out: Exploring the Emotional Side of Search Engines in the Classroom”. Long paper in Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP ‘20). ACM, 95-100 pp. DOI:10.1145/3340631.3394847.

Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2020. “You’ve Got a Friend in Me: Children and Search Agents”. Poster paper in Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP ‘20). ACM, 95-100 pp. DOI:10.1145/3386392.3397604.

Ashlee Milton and Maria Soledad Pera. 2020. “What Snippets Feel: Depression, Search, and Snippets”. Short paper in Proceedings of the 2020 Joint Conference of the Information Retrieval Communities in Europe (CIRCLE ‘20). ACM, 5 pp.

Mohammad Aliannejadi, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Emiliana Murgia, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2020. “Say it with Emojis: Co-designing Relevance Cues for Searching in the Classroom”. Short paper in Proceedings of the 2020 Joint Conference of the Information Retrieval Communities in Europe (CIRCLE ‘20). ACM, 5 pp.

Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2020. “We’ve Only Just Begun: Children Searching in the Classroom”. Position paper in Proceedings of the 2020 Joint Conference of the Information Retrieval Communities in Europe (CIRCLE ‘20). ACM, 2 pp.

Ion Madrazo Azpiazu and Maria Soledad Pera. 2020. “Hierarchical Mapping for Crosslingual Word Embedding Alignment”. In Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL 2020). Volume 8, 361-376 pp. DOI:10.1162/tacl_a_00320

Brody Downs, Aprajita Shukla, Mikey Krentz, Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Landau Wright, Casey Kennington, and Jerry Fails. 2020. “Guiding the selection of child spellchecker suggestions using audio and visual cues”. Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference. DOI:10.1145/3392063.3394390.

Michael D. Ekstrand, Katherine Landau Wright, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2020. “Enhancing Classroom Instruction with Online News”. Aslib Journal of Information Management. DOI:10.1108/AJIM-11-2019-0309.

Ashlee Milton and Maria Soledad Pera. 2020. “The Horror: Evaluating Information Retrieval Systems for Kids”. In Proceedings of the 4th International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children & Recommender and Information Retrieval Systems (KidRec 2020), co-located with ACM IDC 2020.

Brody Downs, Oghenemaro Anuyah, Aprajita Shukla, Jerry Alan Fails, Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Wright, and Casey Kennington. 2020. “KidSpell: A Child-Oriented, Rule-Based, Phonetic Spellchecker”. In Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020).

Mucun Tian and Michael D. Ekstrand. 2020. “Estimating Error and Bias in Offline Evaluation Results”. Short paper in Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Computer-Human Interaction and Information Retrieval (CHIIR ‘20). ACM, 5 pp. DOI:10.1145/3343413.3378004.

Asia J. Biega, Fernando Diaz, Michael D. Ekstrand, and Sebastian Kohlmeier. 2020. Overview of the TREC 2019 Fair Ranking Track. In The Twenty-Eighth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2019) Proceedings. arXiv:2003.11650.

2019

Oghenemaro Anuyah, Ashlee Milton, Michael Green, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2019. “An empirical analysis of search engines’ response to web search queries associated with the classroom setting”. Aslib Journal of Information Management.

Alexandra Olteanu, Jean Garcia-Gathright, Maarten de Rijke, and Michael D. Ekstrand. 2019. “FACTS-IR: Fairness, Accountability, Confidentiality, Transparency, and Safety in Information Retrieval”. SIGIR Forum 53(2) (December 2019), 20–43.

Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni, Maria Soledad Pera, and Theo Huibers. 201. “When Will The Promises of Search Technology In The Classroom Come True”. In Proceedings of the 12th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation(ICERI 2019).

Ashlee Milton, Michael Green, Adam Keener, Joshua Ames, Michael D Ekstrand, Maria Soledad Pera. 2019. “StoryTime: eliciting preferences from children for book recommendations”. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2019 Demo Proceedings).

Michael D Ekstrand, Robin Burke, and Fernando Diaz. 2019. “Fairness and discrimination in recommendation and retrieval”. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2019).

Ashlee Milton, Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2019. “Here, There, and Everywhere: Building a Scaffolding for Children’s Learning Through Recommendations”. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on the Impact of Recommender Systems co-located with the 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (ImpactRS 2019).

Monica Landoni, Davide Matteri, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2019. “Sonny, Cerca! evaluating the impact of using a vocal assistant to search at school”. In International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages (CLEF 2019).

Ion Madrazo Azpiazu and Maria Soledad Pera. 2019. “Is cross‐lingual readability assessment possible?”. In Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST 2019).

Alexandra Olteanu, Jean Garcia-Gathright, Maarten de Rijke, and Michael D Ekstrand. 2019. “Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, Confidentiality, Transparency, and Safety in Information Retrieval (FACTS-IR)”. In Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019).

Michael D Ekstrand, Robin Burke, and Fernando Diaz. 2019. “Fairness and Discrimination in Retrieval and Recommendation”. In Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019).

Ion Madrazo Azpiazu and Maria Soledad Pera. 2019. “Multiattentive Recurrent Neural Network Architecture for Multilingual Readability Assessment”. In Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL 2019).

Jerry Alan Fails, Maria Soledad Pera, Oghenemaro Anuyah, Casey Kennington, Katherine Landau Wright, and William Bigirimana. 2019. “Query formulation assistance for kids: What is available, when to help & what kids want”. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC 2019).

Brody Downs, Tyler French, Katherine Landau Wright, Maria Soledad Pera, Casey Kennington, and Jerry Alan Fails. 2019. “Children and search tools: Evaluation remains unclear”. In Proceedings of the 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children & Recommender and Information Retrieval Systems (KidRec 2019), co-located with ACM IDC 2019.

Brody Downs, Tyler French, Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Landau Wright, Casey Kennington, and Jerry Alan Fails. 2019. “Searching for spellcheckers: What kids want, what kids need”. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC 2019).

Theo Huibers, Natalia Kucirkova, Emiliana Murgia, Jerry Alan Fails, Monica Landoni, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2019. “3rd KidRec Workshop: What does good look like?”. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC 2019).

Oghenemaro Anuyah, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Nevena Dragovic, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2019. “Lightning Talk-Looking for the Movie Seven or Sven from the Movie Frozen?”. In Companion Proceedings of The 2019 World Wide Web Conference.

2018

Yiu-Kai Ng and Maria Soledad Pera. 2018. “Recommending Social-Interactive Games for Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)”. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2018).

Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Micahel Green, Oghenemaro Anuyah, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2018. “Can we leverage rating patterns from traditional users to enhance recommendations for children?”. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2018 Late-Breaking Results).

Michael D. Ekstrand, Mucun Tian, Mohammed R. Imran Kazi, Hoda Mehrpouyan, and Daniel Kluver. 2018. “Exploring Author Gender in Book Rating and Recommendation”. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2018).

Anu Shresta, Francesca Spezzano, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2018. “Who is Really Affected by Fraudulent Reviews?: An analysis of shilling attacks on recommender systems in real-world scenarios”. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2018 Late-Breaking Results).

Michael D. Ekstrand. 2018. “The LKPY Package for Recommender Systems Experiments”. In Proceedings of the REVEAL 2018 Workshop on Offline evaluation for recommender systems, co-located with ACM RecSys 2018.

Mucun Tian and Michael D. Ekstrand. 2018. “Monte Carlo Estimates of Evaluation Metric Error and Bias”. In Proceedings of the REVEAL 2018 Workshop on Offline evaluation for recommender systems, co-located with ACM RecSys 2018.

Michael D. Ekstrand, Pierre-Nicolas Schwab, Jean Garcia-Gathright, Toshihiro Kamishima, and Nasim Sonboli. (2020). “3rd FAccTRec Workshop: Responsible Recommendation”. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. DOI:10.1145/3383313.3411538

Toshihiro Kamishima, Pierre-Nicolas Schwab, and Michael D. Ekstrand. 2018. “2nd FATREC Workshop: Responsible Recommendation”. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2017). DOI:10.1145/3240323.3240335.

Michael D. Ekstrand, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Katherine Landau Wright, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2018. “Retrieving and Recommending for the Classroom: Stakeholders, Objectives, Resources, and Users”. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Recommendation in Complex Scenarios (ComplexRec 2018), at RecSys 2018.

Nevena Dragovic, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2018. “From Recommendation to Curation: When the system becomes your personal docent”. In Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS 2018), co-located with ACM RecSys 2018.

Jerry Alan Fails, Maria Soledad Pera, Natalia Kucirkova, Franca Garzotto. 2018. “International and interdisciplinary perspectives on children & recommender systems (kidrec)”. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children.

Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Wright, Michael D. Ekstrand. 2018. “Recommending Texts to Children with an Expert in the Loop”. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Children & Recommender Systems (KidRec 2018), co-located with ACM IDC 2018.

Daniel Kluver, Michael D. Ekstrand, and Joseph A. Konstan. 2018. “Rating-Based Collaborative Filtering: Algorithms and Evaluation”. In Social Information Access. Peter Brusilovsky and Daqing He, eds. Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 10100, pp. 344–390. DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-90092-6_10. ISBN 978-3-319-90091-9.

Nicola Ferro, Norbert Fuhr, Gregory Grefenstette, Joseph A. Konstan, Pablo Castells, Elizabeth M. Daly, Thierry Declerck, Michael D. Ekstrand, Werner Geyer, Julio Gonzalo, Tsvi Kuflik, Krister Lindén, Bernardo Magnini, Jian-Yun Nie, Raffaele Perego, Bracha Shapira, Ian Soboroff, Nava Tintarev, Karin Verspoor, Martijn C. Willemsen, and Justin Zobel. 2018. “The Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop on Performance Modeling and Prediction”. The Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop on Performance Modeling and Prediction. SIGIR Forum 52(1) (June 2018), 91–101.

Michael D. Ekstrand, Mucun Tian, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Jennifer D. Ekstrand, Oghenemaro Anuyah, David McNeill, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2018. “All The Cool Kids, How Do They Fit In?: Popularity and Demographic Biases in Recommender Evaluation and Effectiveness”. In Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FAT* 2018).

Michael D. Ekstrand, Rezvan Joshaghani, and Hoda Mehrpouyan. 2018. “Privacy for All: Ensuring Fair and Equitable Privacy Protections”. In Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FAT* 2018).

Rezvan Joshaghani, Michael D. Ekstrand, Bart Knijnenburg, and Hoda Mehrpouyan. 2018. “Do Different Groups Have Comparable Privacy Tradeoffs”. In Proceedings of the Networked Privacy Workshop at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018).

2017

Michael D. Ekstrand and Maria Soledad Pera. 2017. “The Demographics of Cool: Popularity and Recommender Performance for Different Groups of Users”. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2017 Poster Proceedings).

Oghenemaro Anuyah, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, David McNeill, Maria Soledad Pera. 2017. “Can Readability Enhance Recommendations on Community Question Answering Sites?”. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2017 Poster Proceedings).

Michael D. Ekstrand, and Amit Sharma. 2017. “FATREC Workshop on Responsible Recommendation”. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2017).

Jerry Alan Fails, Maria Soledad Pera, Franca Garzotto, Mirko Gelsomini. 2017. “KidRec: Children & recommender systems: Workshop co-located with ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2017)”. In of the Eleventh ACM Conference on Recommender Systems.

Michael D. Ekstrand. 2017. “Challenges in Evaluating Recommendations for Children”. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Children & Recommender Systems (KidRec 2017), co-located with ACM RecSys 2017.

Sushma Channamsetty and Michael D. Ekstrand. 2017. “Recommender Response to Diversity and Popularity Bias in User Profiles”. In Proceedings of the 30th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2017).

Jason Hall and Sole Pera. 2017. “UBR: A Book Search–Recommender Hybrid”. In Proceedings of the 30th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2017).

Michael D. Ekstrand and Vaibhav Mahant. 2017. “Sturgeon and the Cool Kids: Problems with Top-N Recommender Evaluation”. In Proceedings of the 30th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2017).

Nevena Dragovic and Sole Pera. 2017. “Exploiting Reviews to Generate Personalized and Justified Recommendations to Guide Users’ Selections”. In Proceedings of the 30th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2017).

2016

Sean MacLachlan, Stacey Donohue, Nevena Dragovic and Maria Soledad Pera. 2016. “‘One Size Doesn’t Fit All’’:’ Helping Users Find Events from Multiple Perspectives”. In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Recommenders in Tourism (RecTour 2016), co-located with ACM RecSys 2016 .

Nevena Dragovic and Maria Soledad Pera. 2016. “Genre prediction to inform the recommendation process”. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2016 Poster Proceedings).

Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Nevena Dragovic and Maria Soledad Pera. 2016. “Finding, understanding and learning: Making information discovery tasks useful for children and teachers”. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2016 Poster Proceedings).

Stacey Donohue, Nevena Dragovic and Maria Soledad Pera. 2016. “Anything Fun Going On?’:’ A Simple Wizard to Avoid the Cold-Start Problem for Event Recommenders”. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2016 Poster Proceedings).

Michael D. Ekstrand and Martijn C Willemsen. 2016. “Behaviorism is Not Enough’:’ Better Recommendations through Listening to Users”. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2016).

Ion Madrazo Azpiazu and Maria Soledad Pera. 2016. “Is Readability a Valuable Signal for Hashtag Recommendations?”. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2016 Poster Proceedings).

Nevena Dragovic, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu and Maria Soledad Pera. 2016. “Is sven seven?’:’ A search intent module for children”. In Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2016).

Michael D. Ekstrand and Michael Ludwig. 2016. “Dependency Injection with Static Analysis and Context-Aware Policy”. Journal of Object Technology, 15(1), 1-1.