Does Reasoning Make Search More Fair? Comparing Fairness in Reasoning and Non-reasoning Rerankers.

@inproceedings{samuel-2026-reasoning, author = {Saron Samuel and Benjamin Van Durme and Eugene Yang}, editor = {Ricardo Campos and Adam Jatowt and Yanyan Lan and Mohammad Aliannejadi and Christine Bauer and Sean MacAvaney and Avishek Anand and Zhaochun Ren and Suzan Verberne and Nan Bai and Masoud Mansoury}, title = {{Does Reasoning Make Search More Fair? Comparing Fairness in Reasoning and Non-reasoning Rerankers}}, booktitle = {{Advances in Information Retrieval - 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, Delft, The Netherlands, March 29 - April 2, 2026, Proceedings, Part III}}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {16485}, pages = {305--318}, publisher = {Springer}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21324-2_25}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21324-2_25} }