Discrimination discovery from data consists in the extraction of discriminatory situations and practices hidden in a large amount of historical decision records.We discuss the challenging problems in discrimination discovery, and present, in a unified form, a framework based on classification rules extraction and filtering on the basis of legally-grounded interestingness measures. The framework is implemented in the publicly available DCUBE tool. As a running example, we use a public dataset on credit scoring.

The discovery of discrimination

Pedreschi D;Ruggieri S;Turini F
2013

Abstract

Discrimination discovery from data consists in the extraction of discriminatory situations and practices hidden in a large amount of historical decision records.We discuss the challenging problems in discrimination discovery, and present, in a unified form, a framework based on classification rules extraction and filtering on the basis of legally-grounded interestingness measures. The framework is implemented in the publicly available DCUBE tool. As a running example, we use a public dataset on credit scoring.
2013
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "Alessandro Faedo" - ISTI
Inglese
Bart Custers, Toon Calders, Bart Schermer, Tal Zarsky
Discrimination and Privacy in the Information Society. Data Mining and Profiling in Large Databases.
91
108
978-3-642-30486-6
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-30487-3_5
Springer
Berlin Heidelberg
GERMANIA
Sì, ma tipo non specificato
Discrimination
H.2.8 Database Applications
3
02 Contributo in Volume::02.01 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)
268
restricted
Pedreschi, D; Ruggieri, S; Turini, F
info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart
File in questo prodotto:
File Dimensione Formato  
prod_326454-doc_99276.pdf

solo utenti autorizzati

Descrizione: The discovery of discrimination
Tipologia: Versione Editoriale (PDF)
Dimensione 495.83 kB
Formato Adobe PDF
495.83 kB Adobe PDF   Visualizza/Apri   Richiedi una copia

I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.

Utilizza questo identificativo per citare o creare un link a questo documento: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14243/297655
Citazioni
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.pmc??? ND
  • Scopus 10
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.isi??? ND
social impact