OSSYM 2024 - 6th International Open Search Symposium
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Europe/Zurich
Leibniz Supercomputing Centre LRZ, Munich, Germany and Online
Leibniz Supercomputing Centre LRZ, Munich, Germany and Online
Andreas Wagner
(CERN),
Christian Gütl
(Graz University of Technology),
Christine Plote,
Michael Granitzer,
Stefan Voigt
(Open Search Foundation)
Description
9 - 11 October 2024
The Open Search Symposium #ossym24 brings together the Open Web Search community in Europe for the sixth time. The hybrid conference provides a forum to discuss and further develop the ideas and concepts of open internet search, search and AI, and related topics in various formats including scientific talks, panels, workshops, demonstrations, student challenges and informal discussion spaces. Participants include researchers, data centres, libraries, policy makers, legal and ethical experts, and society. (
Open Search Foundation)
Conference Programme
Discuss interdisciplinary aspects of Open Search
technical • ethical • legal • educational • economic • applications
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Science Tracks
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Sessions + Workshops
Industry Track |
Conference format
- Conference venue: Leibnitz Supercomputer Centre in Garching/Munich with the possibility of Online participation.
Conference Chairs
Michael Granitzer | University Passau, Germany
Christian Guetl | Graz University of Technology, Austria
Christine Plote | Open Search Foundation, Germany
Andreas Wagner | CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Per Öster | CSC – IT Center for Science, Finland
Stefan Voigt | Open Search Foundation, Germany
Local Organization:
LRZ – Leibniz Supercomputing Centre
Document templates for contributions
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Conference Opening & Opening Keynote
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Conference OpeningSpeaker: Dieter Kranzlmüller (LRZ), Florian Herrmann (State Minister, Head of the Bavarian State Chancellery)
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Keynote „Opening Keynote“Speaker: Roberto Viola (Director General, Communications Networks, Content and Technology, European Commission)
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10:00
Coffee Break
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Science Track: "Crawling and Infrastructure"Convener: Session Chair: Andreas Wagner (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
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Science Track: „Crawling and Infrastructure“Speaker: Session Chair: Andreas Wagner (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
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Architecting the Opensearch Service at CERN For OpenWebSearch.EUSpeaker: Noor Afshan Fathima; Andreas Wagner, Michael Dinzinger; Stavros Moiras; Michael Granitzer
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Atra: A Powerful, Lightweigt Approach to CrawlingSpeaker: Felix Engl (University of Bamberg)
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OWLer: A Distributed and Collaborative Open Web CrawlerSpeaker: Michael Dinzinger, Michael Granitzer; Jelena Mitrovic; Saber Zerhoudi
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Federated Data Infrastructure for the Open Web SearchSpeaker: 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
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12:10
Lunch Break and Guided Tours
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Science Track: "Search Applications and Technologies I": Science Track: „Search Applications and Technologies I“Convener: Session Chair: Elias Sandner (Graz University of Technology & CERN)
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Science Track „Search Applications and Technologies I“Speaker: Session Chair: Elias Sandner (Graz University of Technology & CERN)
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An Open Source Implementation of Web Clustering Algorithms for Selective SearchSpeaker: Gijs Hendriksen (Radboud University)
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Search reports as a way to make the (academic) search process and information evaluation comprehensible and transparentSpeaker: Anna Neovesky
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Enriching Science Search with the Open Search Framework MOSAICSpeaker: Mr Alexander Nussbaumer (Graz University of Technology)
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NGI Track: "Next Generation Internet"
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NGI Track „Next Generation Internet“Speaker: Session Chair: Megi Sharikadze (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Germany)
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NGI Search "Implications of an open web index for search, discovery, and indexing projects”"Speaker: Mirko Presser
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15:40
Coffee Break
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Science Track: "Search Applications and Technologies II"
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Science Track „Search Applications and Technologies II“Speaker: Session Chair: Gijs Hendriksen (Radboud University, Netherlands)
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NeutrinoReview: Concept Proposal for an Open Source Review Management ToolSpeakers: Elias Sandner (Graz University of Technology (AT)), Igor Jakovljevic; Alice Simniceanu; Luca Fontana; Andre Henriques; Andreas Wagner; Christian Gütl
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Scientific QA System with Verifiable AnswersSpeakers: Adela Ljajić (Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research and Development of Serbia), Nikola Milosevic (Bayer A.G.)
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Design Science Research for the Development of a University Course on the Informed Use of Search Engines"Speaker: Prof. Melanie Platz
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Closing of Day 1
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Closing of Day 1Speaker: Megi Sharikadze (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre)
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Guided Tours
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Sponsored Event: “Open Web Search community meet-up”
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Keynote 2: Richard Socher (CEO of You.com): Keynote 2
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Keynote 2: "You.com"Speaker: Richard Socher (CEO of You.com)
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Search Engine Track: "Alternative Search Engines"Convener: Session Chair: Christine Plote (Open Search Foundation, Germany)
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Search Engine Track “Alternative Search Engines”Speaker: Session Chair: Christine Plote (Open Search Foundation, Germany)
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MWMBL: How to build a search engine with (almost) no moneySpeaker: Daoud Clarke
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Meta-Press.esSpeaker: Simon Descarpentries (Founder of the Meta-Press.es project; CEO at Acoeuro.com; Treasurer of the Fund for Defense of Net Neutrality FDN2.org)
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10:40
Coffee Break | Exhibition
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Parallel Sessions: "LLMs, RAG and NER"Convener: Session chair: tbd
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Parallel Sessions: "LLMs, RAG and NER"Speaker: Session chair: Jelena Mitrovic (University of Passau, Germany)
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A Dataset of GDPR Compliant NER for Privacy PoliciesSpeaker: Harshil Darji (Universität Passau)
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Retrieval Augmented Generation and Scientific Knowledge Graphs to Support Scientific Hypotheses GenerationSpeakers: Oliver Bensch, Tobias Hecking
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Utilising Transformer Models for Controllable Scientific Abstractive SummarizationSpeakers: Sarah Frank, Sebastian Johannes Weidinger
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Creating explainable summaries for long scientific documents using large language modelsSpeaker: Sebastian Schäffer (Graz University of Technology)
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Parallel Sessions: "Preprocessing and ML for Search"Convener: Session chair: Sheikh Mastura Farzana (German Aerospace Center DLR)
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Parallel Sessions: "Preprocessing and ML for Search"Speaker: Session chair: Sheikh Mastura Farzana
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Search, Find, Cite and Apply Grammar Rules for TextgenerationSpeaker: Engelbert Niehaus
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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, GermanySpeaker: Vanessa Rittlinger; Sheikh Mastura Farzana, Xuke Hu, Hema Pandey, Stefan Voigt, Christian Geiß, Hannes Taubenboeck
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Impact of Tokenization Techniques on URL ClassificationSpeaker: Mohammed Al-Maamari
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Web Page Classification using Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Clustering TechniqueSpeaker: Hema Pandey
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12:40
Lunch Break
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Keynote
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Keynote: “The Internet of monopolies. How we are taking back the net”Speaker: Martin Andree (Bestselling Author & Researcher at University of Cologne)
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15:00
Coffee Break
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Workshop Session: Workshop 1
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Workshop 1: EconomySpeaker: Organisers: Olivier Blanchard; Daniel Nowakovski
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Workshop Session: Workshop 2: Workshop Session: "Workshop 2"
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Workshop 2: Legal Challenges and Opportunities for an Open Web Index: Insights & Discussions from Leading Research ProjectsSpeaker: Session Chair: Christian Geminn (University of Kassel, Germany) Organizers: Matthias Wendland; RA Paul C. Johannes; Kai Erenli
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Closing of Day 2
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Guided Tours
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19:30
Conference Dinner (self-hosted)
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Keynote: "Digital Discourse: how the Wikipedia Community safeguards the quality of the digital encyclopedia"Convener: Nina Leseberg (Head of Communities & Engagement, Wikimedia Deutschland)
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Keynote: "Digital Discourse: how the Wikipedia Community safeguards the quality of the digital encyclopedia"Speaker: Nina Leseberg (Head of Communities & Engagement, Wikimedia Deutschland)
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Panel Session Ethics & Society I “Exploring and defining the ethical foundations of web search”: anel Session Ethics & Society 1: “Exploring and defining the ethical foundations of web search”Convener: Christine Plote (Open Search Foundation OSF)
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Panel Session Ethics & Society 1: "“Exploring and defining the ethical foundations of web search”"Speaker: Session Chair: Christine Plote (Open Search Foundation OSF)
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10:45
Coffee Break
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Workshop Session: "Ethics & Society 2"Convener: Session Chair: Alexander Nußbaumer (Graz University of Technology)
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Ethics Session Ethics & Society 2Speaker: Session Chair: Alexander Nußbaumer
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What makes an ethical smartphone OS? Digital rights strengthened by open source, open data and open standardsSpeaker: Rik Viergever (E Foundation)
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From Free Software to Open Source: Traversing the Values and Ethics of Open Search InfrastructuresSpeaker: Renée Ridgway (Aarhus University)
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Student Session: "Young Innovators for Open Web Search”Convener: Session Chair: Stefan Voigt (German Aerospace Centre / Open Search Foundation, Germany)
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Student Session “Young Innovators for Open Web Search”Speaker: Session Chair: Stefan Voigt (German Aerospace Centre / Open Search Foundation, Germany)
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“User-Driven Re-Ranking for Adapting the Variety in Search Results“Speaker: Daphne Auer; Birgitta Koenig-Ries; Divyasha Sunil Naik
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"Exploring Curation Strategies for an Open Web Index"Speakers: Felice Douglas (Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart), Susanne Krol
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Wrap-up - Closing of #ossym 2023 - Way ahead
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Wrap-up - Closing of #ossym 2023 - Way ahead: Wrap-up - Closing of #ossym 2023 - Way ahead
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End of Symposium
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