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OSSYM 2023 - 5th International Open Search Symposium
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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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Symposium Opening: Welcome & Keynote & Invited Talks 31/3-004 - IT AmphitheatreConveners: Andreas Wagner (CERN), Michael Granitzer, Stefan Voigt
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Welcome 5mSpeakers: Andreas Wagner (CERN), Michael Granitzer, Stefan Voigt
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CERN Welcome 10mSpeaker: Bob Jones (CERN) (CERN)
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Democratizing AI through community organizing 45mSpeaker: Christoph Schumann (LAION)
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Next Generation Internet – Initiative of the European Commssion. What’s next? 15mSpeaker: Jorge Gasos (European Commission/DG Connect)
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openwebsearch.eu – Where do we stand? 15mSpeaker: Michael Granitzer (University of Passau, Germany)
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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 1mSpeaker: Session Chair: Tobias Hecking (DLR German Aerospace Center, Munich, Germany)
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Product Spam on YouTube: A Case Study 14mSpeaker: Janek Bevendorff (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
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Challenges of index exchange for search engine interoperability 15mSpeaker: Djoerd Hiemstra (Radboud University)
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Prototyping Open Web Search Applications with TIRA: A Case Study in Research-oriented Teaching 15mSpeaker: Maik Fröbe (Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena)
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Session Q&A 15m
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“OpenWebSearch.eu II” Research and Updates from the EU Project groups and researchers 1mSpeaker: Session Chair: Arjen de Vries (Radboud University)
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OWler: Preliminary results for building a Collaborative Open Web Crawler 14mSpeaker: 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 15mSpeaker: Ines Zelch (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena)
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A Comprehensive Dataset for Webpage Classification 15mSpeaker: Mohammed Al-Maamari (University of Passau)
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Governance Towards an Open Web Index 15mSpeaker: Jasmin Tietgen (Open Search Foundation)
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Conceptual Design and Implementation of a Prototype Search Application using the Open Web Search Index 15mSpeaker: Dr Alexander Nussbaumer (Graz University of Technology)
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Cooperate via Open Console 15mSpeaker: Mark Overmeer (MarkOv Solutions) (MarkOv Solutions)
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Session Q&A 15m
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Ice Breaker - Welcome Drink 1h 30m 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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Keynote - Věra Jourová: Keynote 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
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Keynote - “Trust and Transparency” 30mSpeaker: Věra Jourová (Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency)
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Research Track: Human centric Search / User Experience 31/3-004 - IT AmphitheatreConvener: Session Chair: Igor Jakovljevic (CERN)
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Research Track „Human centric Search / User Experience“ 1mSpeaker: Session Chair: Igor Jakovljevic (CERN)
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Understanding and mitigating Cognitive Bias during Web Search 14mSpeaker: Simon Hitzginger (Graz University of Technology)
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Interfacing generic and specialized search engines on the User side 15mSpeaker: Dr Steffen Leich-Nienhaus (MBG AG)
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Linknovate startup radar – datalife use case 15mSpeaker: Manuel Noia (Linknovate Science)
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Reaching beyond Ethics – Perspectives of Human Rights Education on an open Search Index 15mSpeaker: Manuel Theophil (Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern- Landau)
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Session Q&A 15m
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Workshop Session: Parallel Workshops 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
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Parallel Workshops 1m
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Workshop 1: Ethical Aspects 1h 14m
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Workshop 2: Cross-Border Legal Considerations 1h 14m
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Workshop 3: Energy Efficiency in Open Web Search 1h 14m
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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“ 1h 15mSpeaker: 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 & Invited Talk 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
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Keynote „Bias in Search and Recommender Systems“ 45mSpeaker: Ricardo Baeza-Yates Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University, USA
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Coffee Break 30m
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Invited Talk "Building Authentic AI: The Synergy of Decentralized Knowsledge Graph and Community Incentives" 15mSpeaker: Branimir Rakić, co-founder and CTO at Trace Labs
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Industry Track „Alternative Search Engines“ 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
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Industry Track „Alternative Search Engines“ 1mSpeaker: 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. 19mSpeaker: Colin Hayhurst, CEO, Mojeek, United Kingdom
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For children only – the search engine fragFINN 20mSpeaker: Anke Meinders, Managing Director, fragFINN e.V., Germany
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Assumptions about the shape of the web 20mSpeaker: Viktor Lofgren, Founder, Marginalia Search, Sweden
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Session Q&A 15m
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Closing Day 2
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Conference Dinner 2h 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“ 45mSpeaker: Angella Ndaka (The Centre for Africa Epistemic Justice and University of Otago)
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Research Track - “Machine Learning and Retrieval” 31/3-004 - IT AmphitheatreConvener: Session Chair: Saber Zerhoudi (University of Passau)
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Research Track - “Machine Learning and Retrieval” 1mSpeaker: Session Chair: Saber Zerhoudi (University of Passau)
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Customizable Categorization of Documents in Evidence Based Research for Biopharma 14mSpeaker: 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 15mSpeakers: Maximilian Theiner (Graz University of Technology), Patrick Lovric (Graz University of Technology)
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Extending Power ISA for Search with SVP64 15mSpeaker: Luke Leighton (Vantosh, Belgium)
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Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Filtering: Evaluating a Machine Learning Recommender System in a Large Interconnected Organization 15mSpeaker: Igor Jakovljevic (CERN)
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Session Q&A 15m
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Research Track - “Open Search Ecosystem” 31/3-004 - IT AmphitheatreConvener: Session Chair: Maria Dimou (CERN)
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Research Track - “Open Search Ecosystem” 1mSpeaker: Session Chair: Maria Dimou, CERN
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Towards a smart network schema builder using anonymous and implicit interaction data 14mSpeaker: Aleksandar Bobic (CERN, Graz University of Technology)
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Exploiting Key Information from Open Scientific Search Results to Enhance User Experience 15mSpeaker: 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 15mSpeaker: Andre Rattinger (Graz University of Technology)
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Open (Web) Search, a booster for Open Science? 15mSpeaker: Tobias Hecking (German Aerospace Center)
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Europe’s Technical Debt: Why We Need Web Search in the Age of Generative AI 15mSpeaker: Pedro Ortiz Suarez (German Research Center for Artifical Intelligence)
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Session Q&A 15m
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Closing: Wrap-up - Closing of #ossym 2023 - Way ahead 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
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