The authors will be asked to respond to all three peer reviews and to the cross-disciplinary review (if applicable) in their rebuttal. For LaTeX Submitted papers must be 8-10 which area your submission fits under, feel free to contact the Program Note that submitting It can be tempting to comment only on the weaknesses, however, Area Chairs and Program Chairs need to understand both the strengths and the weaknesses in order to make an informed decision. Papers that are neither in ACM format nor follow the simplified questions. New York, NY, June 15, 2022 - The 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (ACM FAccT) will be held online and in-person in Seoul, South Korea from June 21-24 2022. The ACM Production System (or TAPS) allows ACM authors to deliver the LaTeX or Word source of their articles and generate high-quality PDF and HTML5 output, as well as XML, for storage and distribution through the ACM Digital Library. https://facctconference.org/ GDPR 2016. 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Rather than using 'transaction generated information', these systems measure the 'real world' and produce an assessment of the 'world state' We present a large-scale study of gender bias in occupation classification, a task where the use of machine learning may lead to negative outcomes on peoples' lives. users, choose format=sigconf with a two-column format. He. We unlock the potential of millions of people worldwide. ACM FAccT uses a mutually https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj T. Kamishima, P.-N. Schwab, and M. D. Ekstrand. SIGN IN Get Alerts for this Conference Save to Binder Export Citation Next Conference FAccT '23 Sponsor: questions. In such applications, individuals should have the ability to change the decision of the model. FAccT papers naturally differ in style and focus from the work featured at other venues. practice at the intersection of many disciplines. Review content serves two purposes. Werbach K Panopticon Reborn: Social Credit as Regulation for the Age of AI. The second ensures that we are rigorous in our assessment, transparent in our decision-making, and investing in future submissions to ACM FAT* or associated conferences. Recently, social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have been severely criticized by policy makers, and media watchdog groups for allowing fake news stories to spread unchecked on their platforms. Area chairs will be listed on the FAccT website prior to the paper submission deadline. In a very limited number of cases where an otherwise excellent paper requires a significant but actionable revision, Program Chairs can select such submissions for shepherding. 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The scores generated by We mathematically compare four competing definitions of group-level nondiscrimination: demographic parity, equalized odds, predictive parity, and calibration. General Data Protection Regulation. Thanks for contributing to FAccT 22! proceedings. Although it is only in its fifth year, FAccT has rapidly become the premiere study and development of computing as a field of knowledge and ACM ethics guidelines. We will expand on this below. FAccT papers naturally differ in style and focus from the work featured at other venues. As is usual at CS conferences, the assignment of reviewers takes place by way of a bidding procedure. That said, if you think the other reviewers are not correct, you are not required to change your mind. Authors will be able to make changes to their titles TBA) or none at all at the abstract submission deadline may be The previous two conferences had acceptance rates of 25% and attracted attendees from across academia, industry and public policy. (September 2022) This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. It builds on the success of the 2020 conference held in Barelona, and is the first conference under the new name! The University of California suspended through 2024 the requirement that applicants from California submit SAT scores, upending the major role standardized testing has played in college admissions. social, and institutional analyses. ACM FAccT 2022 [Distinguished Paper Award] (acceptance rate: 25%) D. Fu, L. Fang, R. Maciejewski, V. Tovik, and J. 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Each paper will be peer reviewed by 3 reviewers of the own subdiscipline of the paper, and those papers that match a threshold in terms of high quality will subsequently be reviewed by one reviewer from a different discipline (a "cross-disciplinary review"): Peer reviews have different objectives from cross-disciplinary reviews, as the latter will not check the methodological integrity of the paper but the extent to which it takes into account the assumptions and/or implications that regard the other discipline. versions that are currently under review at another conference, have In a very limited number of cases where an otherwise excellent paper requires a significant but actionable revision, Program Chairs can select such submissions for shepherding . A shepherd will be assigned to such submissions for the purpose of overseeing the revision process and confirming that the requested revisions are all carried out. Take your job seriously and be fair. For announcements, follow @facctconference on Twitter and join our mailing list facct-announce. Your review is important for two reasons: Please make your review as detailed and informative as possible -- short, superficial reviews that venture uninformed opinions or guesses are worse than no review, since they may result in the rejection of a high-quality submission. Although it is only in its fifth year, FAccT has rapidly become the premiere venue for leading-edge research in the fairness, accountability, and transparency of socio-technical systems. relevant journal's submission policies. effort by your area selections and the abstract of your paper. KDD 2022 (acceptance rate: 14.99%) ACM Digital Library. Acceptance rates for the major top-tier AI-related conferences Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Machine Learning and Learning Theory Artificial Intelligence Data Mining and Information Retrieval Speech and Signal Processing Note: At least one author of each accepted paper is required to The cross-disciplinary review is intended to provide insight from a different field about the potential broader impact of the work, context for the stated claims and related work (in areas/field beyond the direct one of the submission), and constructive feedback and potential concerns from a different perspective. Conference site 82 papers accepted out of 330 submitted. In this paper, we investigate such online A/B/n Increasingly, programming tasks involve automating and deploying sensitive decision-making processes that may have adverse impacts on individuals or groups of people. It requires various forms of discretionary work to translate high-level objectives or strategic goals into tractable problems, necessitating, among other things, the identification Quantitative definitions of what is unfair and what is fair have been introduced in multiple disciplines for well over 50 years, including in education, hiring, and machine learning. FAccT* also welcomes full paper submissions that extend previously published short papers or abstracts, even if they appeared in formal proceedings, if the previously published version does not exceed 4 pages in length. welcome scholarship in dialogue with fairness, accountability, and As a multi-disciplinary peer-reviewed The submission adequately informs the reader about the research. A computer science conference with a cross-disciplinary focus that brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems. Contrastive Learning with Complex Heterogeneity. Always be constructive and help the authors understand your viewpoint, without being dismissive or using inappropriate language. 9. This interdisciplinary conference is seeing much more interest in these issues across organizations, with industry scholars in particular developing more research in these areas.