Information Retrieval
Overview
Students solve a technical problem to understand how information retrieval systems rank relevant content. They practice computing precision and recall. Then, they are prompted to think about how these systems and metrics can interact with values like privacy.
Contributors
- Ethics content created by Uma Phatak, Veronica Rivera, Deveshi Buch, and Dan Jurafsky.
Ethics goals
- Considering the privacy implications of personalized search engines
- Considering the tradeoffs of precision vs. recall when building information retrieval systems