OSSYM 2023 - 5th International Open Search Symposium

4 Oct 2023, 13:00 → 6 Oct 2023, 16:00 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)

4 - 6 October 2023

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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)

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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.

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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

 

 

OSSYM_2023_FullDeck_06.pdf

Award Ceremony OSSYM-Award-Ceremony.pdf

Wednesday 4 October

13:00 → 14:30 Symposium Opening: Welcome & Keynote & Invited Talks

Conveners: Andreas Wagner (CERN), Michael Granitzer, Stefan Voigt

13:00 Welcome

Speakers: Andreas Wagner (CERN), Michael Granitzer, Stefan Voigt

13:05 CERN Welcome

Speaker: Bob Jones (CERN) (CERN)

13:15 Democratizing AI through community organizing

Speaker: Christoph Schumann (LAION)

14:00 Next Generation Internet – Initiative of the European Commssion. What’s next?

Speaker: Jorge Gasos (European Commission/DG Connect)

Next Generation Internet - OSSYM 04-10-2023.pdf

Next Generation Internet - OSSYM 04-10-2023.pptx

14:15 openwebsearch.eu – Where do we stand?

Speaker: Michael Granitzer (University of Passau, Germany)

ossym-owseu.pdf

ossym-owseu.pptx

14:30 → 15:30 ows.eu Track

Convener: Session Chair: Tobias Hecking (DLR German Aerospace Center, Munich, Germany)

14:30 “OpenWebSearch.eu I” Research and Updates from the EU Project groups and researchers

Speaker: Session Chair: Tobias Hecking (DLR German Aerospace Center, Munich, Germany)

14:31 Product Spam on YouTube: A Case Study

Speaker: Janek Bevendorff (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)

ossym23-affiliate-spam-on-youtube-talk.pdf

14:45 Challenges of index exchange for search engine interoperability

Speaker: Djoerd Hiemstra (Radboud University)

ossym2023.pdf

15:00 Prototyping Open Web Search Applications with TIRA: A Case Study in Research-oriented Teaching

Speaker: Maik Fröbe (Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena)

ossym23-prototyping-talk-frame.pdf

15:15 Session Q&A

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:45 ows.eu Track

16:00 “OpenWebSearch.eu II” Research and Updates from the EU Project groups and researchers

Speaker: Session Chair: Arjen de Vries (Radboud University)

16:01 OWler: Preliminary results for building a Collaborative Open Web Crawler

Speaker: Michael Dinzinger (University of Passau)

OWLer.pdf

OWLer.pptx

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

Speaker: Ines Zelch (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena)

ossym23-ads-in-generative-ir-talk.pdf

16:30 A Comprehensive Dataset for Webpage Classification

Speaker: Mohammed Al-Maamari (University of Passau)

Mohammed Al-Maamari - OSSYM2023-Presentation.pdf

16:45 Governance Towards an Open Web Index

Speaker: Jasmin Tietgen (Open Search Foundation)

Governance Towards an Open Web Index, JT, MA, OSSYM 2023 (2).pdf

17:00 Conceptual Design and Implementation of a Prototype Search Application using the Open Web Search Index

Speaker: Dr Alexander Nussbaumer (Graz University of Technology)

presentation.pdf

17:15 Cooperate via Open Console

Speaker: Mark Overmeer (MarkOv Solutions) (MarkOv Solutions)

open-console.odp

open-console.pdf

17:30 Session Q&A

18:30 → 20:00 Ice Breaker - Welcome Drink

Thursday 5 October

09:00 → 09:30 Keynote - Věra Jourová: Keynote

09:00 Keynote - “Trust and Transparency”

Speaker: Věra Jourová (Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency)

09:30 → 10:45 Research Track: Human centric Search / User Experience

Convener: Session Chair: Igor Jakovljevic (CERN)

09:30 Research Track „Human centric Search / User Experience“

Speaker: Session Chair: Igor Jakovljevic (CERN)

09:31 Understanding and mitigating Cognitive Bias during Web Search

Speaker: Simon Hitzginger (Graz University of Technology)

Presentation.pptx

Presentation_unanimated.pdf

09:45 Interfacing generic and specialized search engines on the User side

Speaker: Dr Steffen Leich-Nienhaus (MBG AG)

interfacing-search-egines_mb.pdf

interfacing-search-egines_mb.pdf

interfacing-search-egines_mb.pptx

10:00 Linknovate startup radar – datalife use case

Speaker: Manuel Noia (Linknovate Science)

Startup Radar presentation OSSYM_compressed.pdf

10:15 Reaching beyond Ethics – Perspectives of Human Rights Education on an open Search Index

Speaker: Manuel Theophil (Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern- Landau)

OSSYM_presentation_Theophil.pptx

10:30 Session Q&A

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 → 12:30 Workshop Session: Parallel Workshops

11:15 Parallel Workshops

11:16 Workshop 1: Ethical Aspects

ossym23-Workshop-ethics.pdf

11:16 Workshop 2: Cross-Border Legal Considerations

11:16 Workshop 3: Energy Efficiency in Open Web Search

12:30 → 14:15 Lunch Break

14:15 → 15:30 Panel Session: „Business Applications and Economic Value of Open Search“

Convener: Session Chair: Isabell Claus (thinkers.ai)

14:15 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

15:30 → 17:00 Keynote & Invited Talk

15:30 Keynote „Bias in Search and Recommender Systems“

Speaker: Ricardo Baeza-Yates Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University, USA

16:15 Coffee Break

16:45 Invited Talk "Building Authentic AI: The Synergy of Decentralized Knowsledge Graph and Community Incentives"

Speaker: Branimir Rakić, co-founder and CTO at Trace Labs

17:00 → 18:15 Industry Track „Alternative Search Engines“

17:00 Industry Track „Alternative Search Engines“

Speaker: Session Chair: Christine Plote (Open Search Foundation)

17:01 Web Scale Search from the Ground Up: Establishing a Viable Alternative to Big Tech.

Speaker: Colin Hayhurst, CEO, Mojeek, United Kingdom

Web Scale Search from the Ground Up.pdf

Web Scale Search from the Ground Up.pdf

17:20 For children only – the search engine fragFINN

Speaker: Anke Meinders, Managing Director, fragFINN e.V., Germany

231005-ossym23-Anke-Meinders.pdf

17:40 Assumptions about the shape of the web

Speaker: Viktor Lofgren, Founder, Marginalia Search, Sweden

18:00 Session Q&A

18:15 → 18:20 Closing Day 2

19:30 → 21:30 Conference Dinner

Friday 6 October

09:00 → 09:45 Keynote

09:00 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)

09:45 → 11:00 Research Track - “Machine Learning and Retrieval”

Convener: Session Chair: Saber Zerhoudi (University of Passau)

09:45 Research Track - “Machine Learning and Retrieval”

Speaker: Session Chair: Saber Zerhoudi (University of Passau)

09:46 Customizable Categorization of Documents in Evidence Based Research for Biopharma

Speaker: Reihaneh Manteghi (Graz University of Technology)

OSSYM2023-v2.pdf

OSSYM2023-v2.pptx

10:00 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)

presentation_slides.pdf

10:15 Extending Power ISA for Search with SVP64

Speaker: Luke Leighton (Vantosh, Belgium)

10:30 Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Filtering: Evaluating a Machine Learning Recommender System in a Large Interconnected Organization

Speaker: Igor Jakovljevic (CERN)

Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Filtering.pdf

10:45 Session Q&A

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 13:00 Research Track - “Open Search Ecosystem”

Convener: Session Chair: Maria Dimou (CERN)

11:30 Research Track - “Open Search Ecosystem”

Speaker: Session Chair: Maria Dimou, CERN

11:31 Towards a smart network schema builder using anonymous and implicit interaction data

Speaker: Aleksandar Bobic (CERN, Graz University of Technology)

11:45 Exploiting Key Information from Open Scientific Search Results to Enhance User Experience

Speaker: Sarah Frank (CERN & Graz University of Technology)

12:00 Exploring the Landscape of Innovation: A Network-Based Approach for Visualizing and Analyzing Heterogeneous Patent Graphs

Speaker: Andre Rattinger (Graz University of Technology)

OSSYM2023_RattingerAndre.pdf

12:15 Open (Web) Search, a booster for Open Science?

Speaker: Tobias Hecking (German Aerospace Center)

VoigtAndHeckingAboosterForOpenScience_01.pdf

VoigtAndHeckingAboosterForOpenScience_01.pptx

12:30 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)

Open search symposium - Europe's Technical Debt.pdf

Open search symposium - Europe's Technical Debt.pptx

12:45 Session Q&A

13:00 → 13:30 Closing: Wrap-up - Closing of #ossym 2023 - Way ahead