OSSYM 2023 - 5th International Open Search Symposium
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Europe/Zurich
31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre (CERN)
Andreas Wagner
(CERN),
Christian Gütl
(Graz University of Technology),
Christine Plote,
Michael Granitzer,
Stefan Voigt
(Open Search Foundation)
Description
4 - 6 October 2023
The #ossym Open Search Symposium series brings together the Open Internet Search community in Europe for the fifth time this year. The interactive conference provides a forum to discuss and further develop the ideas and concepts of open internet search. Participants include researchers, data centres, libraries, policy makers, legal and ethical experts, and society. (
Open Search Foundation)
Conference Programme
Research Tracks
- Open search architectures and platforms
- Federated search and cross-domain search
- Web Data Analytics and Web Mining
- Natural language and multi-media processing for search
- Large Language Model and Machine learning
- Personalization and recommendation in search
- Conversational Retrieval Experiences
- Georeferencing of web content and geospatial search/ analysis
- Evaluation of open search systems
- Green computing and sustainability
- Societal and ethical challenges and solutions
- Politics and governance
- Search engine advertising and business models in an open search world
- Applications of open search in domains such as science, e-commerce, health, and education
- Legal aspects
- Economic dimensions of open search
Conference Timetable
- The timetable of the OSSYM 2023 is available at:
https://indico.cern.ch/event/1231545/timetable/#all.detailed
Conference format
- The conferencetook place at CERN with the possibility of Online participation.
Symposium organizing committee
Maari Alanko, CSC – IT Center for Science, Finland
Isabell Claus, thinkers.ai, Austria
Michael Granitzer, University Passau, Germany
Christian Guetl, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Christine Plote, Open Search Foundation, Germany
Stefan Voigt, Open Search Foundation, Germany
Andreas Wagner, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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Conveners: Andreas Wagner (CERN), Michael Granitzer, Stefan Voigt
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Convener: Session Chair: Tobias Hecking (DLR German Aerospace Center, Munich, Germany)
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“OpenWebSearch.eu I” Research and Updates from the EU Project groups and researchers¶Speaker: Session Chair: Tobias Hecking (DLR German Aerospace Center, Munich, Germany)
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Product Spam on YouTube: A Case Study¶Speaker: Janek Bevendorff (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
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Challenges of index exchange for search engine interoperability¶Speaker: Djoerd Hiemstra (Radboud University)
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Prototyping Open Web Search Applications with TIRA: A Case Study in Research-oriented Teaching¶Speaker: Maik Fröbe (Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena)
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Session Q&A¶
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15:30
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“OpenWebSearch.eu II” Research and Updates from the EU Project groups and researchers¶Speaker: Session Chair: Arjen de Vries (Radboud University)
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OWler: Preliminary results for building a Collaborative Open Web Crawler¶Speaker: Michael Dinzinger (University of Passau)
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Commercialized Generative AI: A Critical Study of the Feasibility and Ethics of Generating Native Advertising Using Large Language Models in Conversational Web Search¶Speaker: Ines Zelch (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena)
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A Comprehensive Dataset for Webpage Classification¶Speaker: Mohammed Al-Maamari (University of Passau)
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Governance Towards an Open Web Index¶Speaker: Jasmin Tietgen (Open Search Foundation)
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Conceptual Design and Implementation of a Prototype Search Application using the Open Web Search Index¶Speaker: Dr Alexander Nussbaumer (Graz University of Technology)
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Cooperate via Open Console¶Speaker: Mark Overmeer (MarkOv Solutions) (MarkOv Solutions)
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Session Q&A¶
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18:30
Ice Breaker - Welcome Drink 500/1-201 - Mezzanine
500/1-201 - Mezzanine
CERN
Main Building close to CERN Restaurant 1 https://maps.cern.ch/?xmin=2492361.42&ymin=1120370.04&xmax=2494134.13&ymax=1121540.56&basemap=plan&mode=2D10Show room on map
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Convener: Session Chair: Igor Jakovljevic (CERN)
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Research Track „Human centric Search / User Experience“¶Speaker: Session Chair: Igor Jakovljevic (CERN)
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Understanding and mitigating Cognitive Bias during Web Search¶Speaker: Simon Hitzginger (Graz University of Technology)
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Interfacing generic and specialized search engines on the User side¶Speaker: Dr Steffen Leich-Nienhaus (MBG AG)
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Linknovate startup radar – datalife use case¶Speaker: Manuel Noia (Linknovate Science)
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Reaching beyond Ethics – Perspectives of Human Rights Education on an open Search Index¶Speaker: Manuel Theophil (Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern- Landau)
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Session Q&A¶
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10:45
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12:30
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Panel Session: „Business Applications and Economic Value of Open Search“¶ 31/3-004 - IT AmphitheatreConvener: Session Chair: Isabell Claus (thinkers.ai)
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Panel Session „Business Applications and Economic Value of Open Search“¶Speaker: Session Chair: Isabell Claus (thinkers.ai); Jacqueline Erhart, ASFINAG Maut Service GmbH; Prof. Uwe Seebacher, Author and Editor, Springer Nature Group
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Keynote „Bias in Search and Recommender Systems“¶Speaker: Ricardo Baeza-Yates Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University, USA
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16:15
Coffee Break
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Invited Talk "Building Authentic AI: The Synergy of Decentralized Knowsledge Graph and Community Incentives"¶Speaker: Branimir Rakić, co-founder and CTO at Trace Labs
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Industry Track „Alternative Search Engines“¶Speaker: Session Chair: Christine Plote (Open Search Foundation)
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Web Scale Search from the Ground Up: Establishing a Viable Alternative to Big Tech.¶Speaker: Colin Hayhurst, CEO, Mojeek, United Kingdom
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For children only – the search engine fragFINN¶Speaker: Anke Meinders, Managing Director, fragFINN e.V., Germany
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Session Q&A¶
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19:30
Conference Dinner Restaurant le Coq Rouge
Restaurant le Coq Rouge
Restaurant le Coq Rouge 1 Place de la Fontaine 01630 SAINT-GENIS-POUILLY +33 4 50 42 20 50 https://www.restaurantlecoqrouge.fr/
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Keynote „Inclusion by whose terms? When being in doesn’t mean digital and web search inclusion“¶Speaker: Angella Ndaka (The Centre for Africa Epistemic Justice and University of Otago)
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Convener: Session Chair: Saber Zerhoudi (University of Passau)
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Research Track - “Machine Learning and Retrieval”¶Speaker: Session Chair: Saber Zerhoudi (University of Passau)
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Customizable Categorization of Documents in Evidence Based Research for Biopharma¶Speaker: Reihaneh Manteghi (Graz University of Technology)
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A System for Geospatial Question-Answering using LLMs, LangChain, ChromaDB, and a Modern React.Js Frontend¶Speakers: Maximilian Theiner (Graz University of Technology), Patrick Lovric (Graz University of Technology)
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Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Filtering: Evaluating a Machine Learning Recommender System in a Large Interconnected Organization¶Speaker: Igor Jakovljevic (CERN)
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Session Q&A¶
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11:00
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Convener: Session Chair: Maria Dimou (CERN)
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Towards a smart network schema builder using anonymous and implicit interaction data¶Speaker: Aleksandar Bobic (CERN, Graz University of Technology)
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Exploiting Key Information from Open Scientific Search Results to Enhance User Experience¶Speaker: Sarah Frank (CERN & Graz University of Technology)
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Exploring the Landscape of Innovation: A Network-Based Approach for Visualizing and Analyzing Heterogeneous Patent Graphs¶Speaker: Andre Rattinger (Graz University of Technology)
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Open (Web) Search, a booster for Open Science?¶Speaker: Tobias Hecking (German Aerospace Center)
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Europe’s Technical Debt: Why We Need Web Search in the Age of Generative AI¶Speaker: Pedro Ortiz Suarez (German Research Center for Artifical Intelligence)
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Session Q&A¶
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