Tag: network analysis
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Evaluating the Fairness of News Recommender Algorithms Within Detected User Communities
Author: Bernhard Steindl Supervisor: Julia Neidhardt, Co-Supervisor: Thomas E. Kolb Awards: Bernhard Steindl won the ASAI Masterthesis Prize 2025 (Informatics Website) Abstract This work addresses the problem of unfair treatment of different user groups in the recommendations they receive from recommendation algorithms. Recommender systems (RS) are algorithms that suggest items to a user that are…
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Network Analysis on the Austrian Media Corpus: Examining measures of co-occurrence between entities in Austrian media
Author: Gabriel Grill Supervisor: Hannes Werthner, Co-Supervisor: Julia Neidhardt Abstract The quantitative study of news media can provide insights into reporting patterns and enable public discourse. Print media is essential in democratic societies, so its study remains important. This thesis examines Austrian reporting using network-based methods and unpacks the suitability of such an approach for…