Name: OSSYM 2024 - 6th International Open Search Symposium
Start: 2024-10-09T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-10-11T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Leibniz Supercomputing Centre LRZ, Munich, Germany and Online

Monday 7 October 2024
Tuesday 8 October 2024
Wednesday 9 October 2024
09:00 Conference Opening & Opening Keynote
Conference Opening & Opening Keynote
09:00 - 10:00
Contributions

09:00 Conference Opening - Dieter Kranzlmüller (LRZ), Florian Herrmann (State Minister, Head of the Bavarian State Chancellery)

09:15 Keynote „Opening Keynote“ - Roberto Viola (Director General, Communications Networks, Content and Technology, European Commission)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 Science Track: "Crawling and Infrastructure"
Science Track: "Crawling and Infrastructure"
10:30 - 12:10
Contributions

10:30 Science Track: „Crawling and Infrastructure“ - Session Chair: Andreas Wagner (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)

10:31 Architecting the Opensearch Service at CERN For OpenWebSearch.EU - Noor Afshan Fathima; Andreas Wagner, Michael Dinzinger; Stavros Moiras; Michael Granitzer

10:50 Atra: A Powerful, Lightweigt Approach to Crawling - Felix Engl (University of Bamberg)

11:10 OWLer: A Distributed and Collaborative Open Web Crawler - Michael Dinzinger, Michael Granitzer; Jelena Mitrovic; Saber Zerhoudi

11:30 Federated Data Infrastructure for the Open Web Search - Noor Afshan Fathima; Martin Golasowski; Michael Granitzer; Andreas Wagner, Chris Ariyo; Gijs Hendriksen; John Truckenbrodt; Katja Mankinen; Michael Dinzinger; Mikael Karlsson; Mohamad Hayek; Stavros Moiras; Lukas Vojacek; Stephan Hachinger; Jan Martinovič

11:50 Open Console - Mark Overmeer; Thao Nguyen
12:10 Lunch Break and Guided Tours
Lunch Break and Guided Tours
12:10 - 13:40
13:40 Science Track: „Search Applications and Technologies I“
Science Track: „Search Applications and Technologies I“
13:40 - 14:40
Contributions

13:40 Science Track „Search Applications and Technologies I“ - Session Chair: Elias Sandner (Graz University of Technology & CERN)

13:41 An Open Source Implementation of Web Clustering Algorithms for Selective Search - Gijs Hendriksen (Radboud University)

14:00 Search reports as a way to make the (academic) search process and information evaluation comprehensible and transparent - Anna Neovesky

14:20 Enriching Science Search with the Open Search Framework MOSAIC - Alexander Nussbaumer (Graz University of Technology)
14:40
14:40 - 15:40
Contributions

14:40 NGI Track „Next Generation Internet“ - Session Chair: Megi Sharikadze (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Germany)

14:45 NGI Search "Implications of an open web index for search, discovery, and indexing projects”" - Mirko Presser
15:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:20
16:20 Science Track: "Search Applications and Technologies II"
Science Track: "Search Applications and Technologies II"
16:20 - 17:20
Contributions

16:20 Science Track „Search Applications and Technologies II“ - Session Chair: Gijs Hendriksen (Radboud University, Netherlands)

16:21 NeutrinoReview: Concept Proposal for an Open Source Review Management Tool - Elias Sandner (Graz University of Technology (AT)) Igor Jakovljevic; Alice Simniceanu; Luca Fontana; Andre Henriques; Andreas Wagner; Christian Gütl

16:40 Scientific QA System with Verifiable Answers - Adela Ljajić (Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research and Development of Serbia) Nikola Milosevic (Bayer A.G.)

17:00 Design Science Research for the Development of a University Course on the Informed Use of Search Engines" - Melanie Platz
17:20 Closing of Day 1
Closing of Day 1
17:20 - 17:35
Contributions

17:20 Closing of Day 1 - Megi Sharikadze (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre)
17:55

17:55 - 18:55

19:00

19:00 - 21:00
Thursday 10 October 2024
09:00 Keynote 2
Keynote 2
09:00 - 10:00
Contributions

09:00 Keynote 2: "You.com" - Richard Socher (CEO of You.com)
10:00 Search Engine Track: "Alternative Search Engines"
Search Engine Track: "Alternative Search Engines"
10:00 - 10:40
Contributions

10:00 Search Engine Track “Alternative Search Engines” - Session Chair: Christine Plote (Open Search Foundation, Germany)

10:01 MWMBL: How to build a search engine with (almost) no money - Daoud Clarke

10:20 Meta-Press.es - Simon Descarpentries (Founder of the Meta-Press.es project; CEO at Acoeuro.com; Treasurer of the Fund for Defense of Net Neutrality FDN2.org)
10:40 Coffee Break | Exhibition
Coffee Break | Exhibition
10:40 - 11:20
11:20 Parallel Sessions: "LLMs, RAG and NER"
Parallel Sessions: "LLMs, RAG and NER"
11:20 - 12:40
Contributions

11:20 Parallel Sessions: "LLMs, RAG and NER" - Session chair: Jelena Mitrovic (University of Passau, Germany)

11:21 A Dataset of GDPR Compliant NER for Privacy Policies - Harshil Darji (Universität Passau)

11:40 Retrieval Augmented Generation and Scientific Knowledge Graphs to Support Scientific Hypotheses Generation - Oliver Bensch Tobias Hecking

12:00 Utilising Transformer Models for Controllable Scientific Abstractive Summarization - Sarah Frank Sebastian Johannes Weidinger

12:20 Creating explainable summaries for long scientific documents using large language models - Sebastian Schäffer (Graz University of Technology)
Parallel Sessions: "Preprocessing and ML for Search"
Parallel Sessions: "Preprocessing and ML for Search"
11:20 - 12:40
Contributions

11:20 Parallel Sessions: "Preprocessing and ML for Search" - Session chair: Sheikh Mastura Farzana

11:21 Search, Find, Cite and Apply Grammar Rules for Textgeneration - Engelbert Niehaus

11:40 Towards a systematic use of web-text data to support geospatial analysis of major natural disaster and crisis events – Evidence from the Ahrtal 2021 flooding, Germany - Vanessa Rittlinger; Sheikh Mastura Farzana, Xuke Hu, Hema Pandey, Stefan Voigt, Christian Geiß, Hannes Taubenboeck

12:00 Impact of Tokenization Techniques on URL Classification - Mohammed Al-Maamari

12:20 Web Page Classification using Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Clustering Technique - Hema Pandey
12:40 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:40 - 14:00
14:00 Keynote
Keynote
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions

14:00 Keynote: “The Internet of monopolies. How we are taking back the net” - Martin Andree (Bestselling Author & Researcher at University of Cologne)
15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 Workshop Session: Workshop 1
Workshop Session: Workshop 1
15:30 - 17:30
Contributions

15:30 Workshop 1: Economy - Organisers: Olivier Blanchard; Daniel Nowakovski
Workshop Session: "Workshop 2"
Workshop Session: "Workshop 2"
15:30 - 17:30
Contributions

15:30 Workshop 2: Legal Challenges and Opportunities for an Open Web Index: Insights & Discussions from Leading Research Projects - Session Chair: Christian Geminn (University of Kassel, Germany) Organizers: Matthias Wendland; RA Paul C. Johannes; Kai Erenli
17:30 Closing of Day 2
Closing of Day 2
17:30 - 17:45

17:45 Guided Tours
Guided Tours
17:45 - 18:45

19:30 Conference Dinner (self-hosted)
Conference Dinner (self-hosted)
19:30 - 22:00
Friday 11 October 2024
09:00 "Digital Discourse: how the Wikipedia Community safeguards the quality of the digital encyclopedia"
"Digital Discourse: how the Wikipedia Community safeguards the quality of the digital encyclopedia"
09:00 - 09:45
Contributions

09:00 Keynote: "Digital Discourse: how the Wikipedia Community safeguards the quality of the digital encyclopedia" - Nina Leseberg (Head of Communities & Engagement, Wikimedia Deutschland)
09:45 anel Session Ethics & Society 1: “Exploring and defining the ethical foundations of web search”
anel Session Ethics & Society 1: “Exploring and defining the ethical foundations of web search”
09:45 - 10:45
Contributions

09:45 Panel Session Ethics & Society 1: "“Exploring and defining the ethical foundations of web search”" - Session Chair: Christine Plote (Open Search Foundation OSF)
10:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:15
11:15 Workshop Session: "Ethics & Society 2"
Workshop Session: "Ethics & Society 2"
11:15 - 12:15
Contributions

11:15 Ethics Session Ethics & Society 2 - Session Chair: Alexander Nußbaumer

11:16 What makes an ethical smartphone OS? Digital rights strengthened by open source, open data and open standards - Rik Viergever (E Foundation)

11:35 Energy Efficency and Search (WT) - Alex de Vries

11:55 From Free Software to Open Source: Traversing the Values and Ethics of Open Search Infrastructures - Renée Ridgway (Aarhus University)
12:15 "Young Innovators for Open Web Search”
"Young Innovators for Open Web Search”
12:15 - 13:00
Contributions

12:15 Student Session “Young Innovators for Open Web Search” - Session Chair: Stefan Voigt (German Aerospace Centre / Open Search Foundation, Germany)

12:16 “User-Driven Re-Ranking for Adapting the Variety in Search Results“ - Daphne Auer; Birgitta Koenig-Ries; Divyasha Sunil Naik

12:36 "Exploring Curation Strategies for an Open Web Index" - Felice Douglas (Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart) Susanne Krol
13:00 Wrap-up - Closing of #ossym 2023 - Way ahead
Wrap-up - Closing of #ossym 2023 - Way ahead
13:00 - 13:30
Contributions

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

13:15 End of Symposium