Gender Representation-Bias for Information Retrieval (GrepBiasIR)

The GrepBiasIR provides a set of bias-sensitive queries, namely the gender-neutral queries for which biases in their retrieval results are considered socially problematic. The queries cover 7 gender dimensions on topics such as physical capabilities and child care. Each query is also accompanied by one relevant and one non-relevant document, where each document is expressed in neutral, male, and female wording.

@inproceedings{krieg2022grep,
  title={Grep-BiasIR: a dataset for investigating gender representation-bias in information retrieval results},
  author={Krieg, Klara and Parada-Cabaleiro, Emilia and Medicus, Gertraud and Lesota, Oleg and Schedl, Markus and Rekabsaz, Navid},
  booktitle={Proceeding of the 2023 ACM SIGIR Conference On Human Information Interaction And Retrieval (CHIIR)},
  year={2022}
}

Preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.07754.pdf

GrepBiasIR files

The dataset consists of the queries.csv file comprising all queries, and seven files with respective documents corresponding to the seven topics. The formatting of these files are explained below:

queries.csv:

• q_id - unique ID of the query
• category - query category (one of seven)
• query - query text

queries-documents_[CATEGORY].csv:

[CATEGORY] - one of the seven query categories

• q_id - unique ID of the query
• d_id - unique ID of the document
• relevant - document to query relevance judgement (1 - relevant, 0 - not relevant)
• query - query text
• doc_title - title of the document
• document - text of the document
• content_gender - gender indication inferred from the text of the document (F - female, M - male, N - neutral)
• exp_stereotype - expected stereotype annotation

Show me a "Male Nurse"! dataset

Using GrepBiasIR, Kopeinik et al. (citation below) conduct a user study to observe and measure the potential biases of the search engines' users, when formulating queries on gender-sensitive topics. The dataset consisting of these formulated queries is available here: https://github.com/CPJKU/user-interaction-gender-bias-IR

@inproceedings{Kopeinik2023Show,
  title={Show me a "Male Nurse"! How Gender Bias is Reflected in the Query Formulation of Search Engine Users},
  author={Kopeinik, Simone and Mara, Martina and Ratz, Linda and Krieg, Klara and Schedl, Markus and Rekabsaz, Navid},
  booktitle={Proceeding of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI),},
  year={2023}
}