Advances in Bias and Fairness in Information Retrieval: Second International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation, BIAS 2021, Lucca, Italy, April 1, 2021, Proceedings

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation, BIAS 2021, held in April, 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic BIAS 2021 was held virtually.  The 11 full papers and 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The papers cover topics that go from search and recommendation in online dating, education, and social media, over the impact of gender bias in word embeddings, to tools that allow to explore bias and fairnesson the Web.