OSSYM 2023 - 5th International Open Search Symposium

from Wednesday 4 October 2023 (13:00) to Friday 6 October 2023 (16:00)
CERN (31/3-004)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
4 Oct 2023
5 Oct 2023
6 Oct 2023
AM
09:00
Keynote - Věra Jourová (until 09:30) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
09:00 Keynote - “Trust and Transparency” - Věra Jourová (Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
09:30
Research Track - Session Chair: Igor Jakovljevic (CERN) (until 10:45) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
09:30 Research Track „Human centric Search / User Experience“ - Session Chair: Igor Jakovljevic (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
09:31 Understanding and mitigating Cognitive Bias during Web Search - Simon Hitzginger (Graz University of Technology)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
09:45 Interfacing generic and specialized search engines on the User side - Dr Steffen Leich-Nienhaus (MBG AG)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
10:00 Linknovate startup radar – datalife use case - Manuel Noia (Linknovate Science)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
10:15 Reaching beyond Ethics – Perspectives of Human Rights Education on an open Search Index - Manuel Theophil (Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern- Landau)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
10:30 Session Q&A   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
10:45 --- Coffee Break ---
11:15
Workshop Session (until 12:30) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
11:15 Parallel Workshops   ()
11:16 Workshop 1: Ethical Aspects   ()
11:16 Workshop 2: Cross-Border Legal Considerations   ()
11:16 Workshop 3: Energy Efficiency in Open Web Search   ()
09:00
Keynote (until 09:45) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
09:00 Keynote „Inclusion by whose terms? When being in doesn’t mean digital and web search inclusion“ - Angella Ndaka (The Centre for Africa Epistemic Justice and University of Otago)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
09:45
Research Track - “Machine Learning and Retrieval” - Session Chair: Saber Zerhoudi (University of Passau) (until 11:00) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
09:45 Research Track - “Machine Learning and Retrieval” - Session Chair: Saber Zerhoudi (University of Passau)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
09:46 Customizable Categorization of Documents in Evidence Based Research for Biopharma - Reihaneh Manteghi (Graz University of Technology)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
10:00 A System for Geospatial Question-Answering using LLMs, LangChain, ChromaDB, and a Modern React.Js Frontend - Patrick Lovric (Graz University of Technology) Maximilian Theiner (Graz University of Technology)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
10:15 Extending Power ISA for Search with SVP64 - Luke Leighton (Vantosh, Belgium)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
10:30 Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Filtering: Evaluating a Machine Learning Recommender System in a Large Interconnected Organization - Igor Jakovljevic (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
10:45 Session Q&A   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30
Research Track - “Open Search Ecosystem” - Session Chair: Maria Dimou (CERN) (until 13:00) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
11:30 Research Track - “Open Search Ecosystem” - Session Chair: Maria Dimou, CERN   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
11:31 Towards a smart network schema builder using anonymous and implicit interaction data - Aleksandar Bobic (CERN, Graz University of Technology)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
11:45 Exploiting Key Information from Open Scientific Search Results to Enhance User Experience - Sarah Frank (CERN & Graz University of Technology)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
12:00 Exploring the Landscape of Innovation: A Network-Based Approach for Visualizing and Analyzing Heterogeneous Patent Graphs - Andre Rattinger (Graz University of Technology)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
12:15 Open (Web) Search, a booster for Open Science? - Tobias Hecking (German Aerospace Center)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
12:30 Europe’s Technical Debt: Why We Need Web Search in the Age of Generative AI - Pedro Ortiz Suarez (German Research Center for Artifical Intelligence)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
12:45 Session Q&A   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
PM
13:00
Symposium Opening: Welcome & Keynote & Invited Talks - Stefan Voigt Michael Granitzer Andreas Wagner (CERN) (until 14:30) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
13:00 Welcome - Michael Granitzer Stefan Voigt Andreas Wagner (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
13:05 CERN Welcome - Bob Jones (CERN) (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
13:15 Democratizing AI through community organizing - Christoph Schumann (LAION)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
14:00 Next Generation Internet – Initiative of the European Commssion. What’s next? - Jorge Gasos (European Commission/DG Connect)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
14:15 openwebsearch.eu – Where do we stand? - Michael Granitzer (University of Passau, Germany)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
14:30
ows.eu Track - Session Chair: Tobias Hecking (DLR German Aerospace Center, Munich, Germany) (until 15:30) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
14:30 “OpenWebSearch.eu I” Research and Updates from the EU Project groups and researchers - Session Chair: Tobias Hecking (DLR German Aerospace Center, Munich, Germany)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
14:31 Product Spam on YouTube: A Case Study - Janek Bevendorff (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
14:45 Challenges of index exchange for search engine interoperability - Djoerd Hiemstra (Radboud University)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
15:00 Prototyping Open Web Search Applications with TIRA: A Case Study in Research-oriented Teaching - Maik Fröbe (Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
15:15 Session Q&A   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
ows.eu Track (until 17:45) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
16:00 “OpenWebSearch.eu II” Research and Updates from the EU Project groups and researchers - Session Chair: Arjen de Vries (Radboud University)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
16:01 OWler: Preliminary results for building a Collaborative Open Web Crawler - Michael Dinzinger (University of Passau)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
16:15 Commercialized Generative AI: A Critical Study of the Feasibility and Ethics of Generating Native Advertising Using Large Language Models in Conversational Web Search - Ines Zelch (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
16:30 A Comprehensive Dataset for Webpage Classification - Mohammed Al-Maamari (University of Passau)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
16:45 Governance Towards an Open Web Index - Jasmin Tietgen (Open Search Foundation)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
17:00 Conceptual Design and Implementation of a Prototype Search Application using the Open Web Search Index - Dr Alexander Nussbaumer (Graz University of Technology)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
17:15 Cooperate via Open Console - Mark Overmeer (MarkOv Solutions) (MarkOv Solutions)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
17:30 Session Q&A   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
18:30 --- Ice Breaker - Welcome Drink ---
12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
14:15
Panel Session - Session Chair: Isabell Claus (thinkers.ai) (until 15:30) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
14:15 Panel Session „Business Applications and Economic Value of Open Search“ - Session Chair: Isabell Claus (thinkers.ai); Jacqueline Erhart, ASFINAG Maut Service GmbH; Prof. Uwe Seebacher, Author and Editor, Springer Nature Group   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
15:30
Keynote & Invited Talk (until 17:00) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
15:30 Keynote „Bias in Search and Recommender Systems“ - Ricardo Baeza-Yates Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University, USA   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
16:15 --- Coffee Break ---
16:45 Invited Talk "Building Authentic AI: The Synergy of Decentralized Knowsledge Graph and Community Incentives" - Branimir Rakić, co-founder and CTO at Trace Labs   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
17:00
Industry Track „Alternative Search Engines“ (until 18:15) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
17:00 Industry Track „Alternative Search Engines“ - Session Chair: Christine Plote (Open Search Foundation)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
17:01 Web Scale Search from the Ground Up: Establishing a Viable Alternative to Big Tech. - Colin Hayhurst, CEO, Mojeek, United Kingdom   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
17:20 For children only – the search engine fragFINN - Anke Meinders, Managing Director, fragFINN e.V., Germany   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
17:40 Assumptions about the shape of the web - Viktor Lofgren, Founder, Marginalia Search, Sweden   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
18:00 Session Q&A   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
18:15
Closing Day 2 (until 18:20) ()
19:30 --- Conference Dinner ---
13:00
Closing (until 13:30) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)