What an honor that my recent work with Andrés Ferraro is featured as an example for research on Equality, Diversity & Inclusion at Utrecht University’s website. There is also a sneak peek to an upcoming work with Johanna Devaney.

I am very happy that our CHIIR paper Break the Loop: Gender Imbalance in Music Recommenders with Andrés Ferraro and Xavier Serra received a lot of media attention.

It will take a while until I can integrate all the media articles (that I am aware of) in my website.
Here some links (articles in various languages):

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

Music recommendation algorithms are unfair to female artists, but we can change that.

Article written by: Christine Bauer, Utrecht University and Andrés Ferraro, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Andrés Ferraro will present our joint paper at CHIIR 2021. In the paper with the title Break the Loop: Gender Imbalance in Music Recommenders, we investigate the imbalance in music recommendations with respect to the artists gender. We propose a simple re-ranking approach to mitigate the problem and show in a simulation of feedback loops how the gender (im-)balances evolves over time.

I am glad that my summary of the ISMIR 2020 special session: ‘‘How do we—in MIR research—help artists? Do we?’’ made it to the December 2020 issue of the ACM SIGIR Forum.