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

OSSYM 2024 - 6th International Open Search Symposium

from Wednesday, October 9, 2024 (9:00 AM) to Friday, October 11, 2024 (4:00 PM)

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

9:00 AM Conference Opening - Dieter Kranzlmüller (LRZ), Florian Herrmann (State Minister, Head of the Bavarian State Chancellery)

9:15 AM Keynote „Opening Keynote“ - Roberto Viola (Director General, Communications Networks, Content and Technology, European Commission)
10:00 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM Science Track: "Crawling and Infrastructure": Science Track: "Crawling and Infrastructure"
Science Track: "Crawling and Infrastructure"
10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Contributions

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

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

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

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

11:30 AM 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 AM Open Console - Mark Overmeer; Thao Nguyen
12:10 PM Lunch Break and Guided Tours
Lunch Break and Guided Tours
12:10 PM - 1:40 PM
1:40 PM Science Track: "Search Applications and Technologies I": Science Track: „Search Applications and Technologies I“
Science Track: „Search Applications and Technologies I“
1:40 PM - 2:40 PM
Contributions

1:40 PM Science Track „Search Applications and Technologies I“ - Session Chair: Elias Sandner (Graz University of Technology & CERN)

1:41 PM An Open Source Implementation of Web Clustering Algorithms for Selective Search - Gijs Hendriksen (Radboud University)

2:00 PM Search reports as a way to make the (academic) search process and information evaluation comprehensible and transparent - Anna Neovesky

2:20 PM Enriching Science Search with the Open Search Framework MOSAIC - Alexander Nussbaumer (Graz University of Technology)
2:40 PM NGI Track: "Next Generation Internet"
2:40 PM - 3:40 PM
Contributions

2:40 PM NGI Track „Next Generation Internet“ - Session Chair: Megi Sharikadze (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Germany)

2:45 PM NGI Search "Implications of an open web index for search, discovery, and indexing projects”" - Mirko Presser
3:40 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:40 PM - 4:20 PM
4:20 PM Science Track: "Search Applications and Technologies II": Science Track: "Search Applications and Technologies II"
Science Track: "Search Applications and Technologies II"
4:20 PM - 5:20 PM
Contributions

4:20 PM Science Track „Search Applications and Technologies II“ - Session Chair: Gijs Hendriksen (Radboud University, Netherlands)

4:21 PM 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

4:40 PM Scientific QA System with Verifiable Answers - Adela Ljajić (Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research and Development of Serbia) Nikola Milosevic (Bayer A.G.)

5:00 PM Design Science Research for the Development of a University Course on the Informed Use of Search Engines" - Melanie Platz
5:20 PM Closing of Day 1: Closing of Day 1
Closing of Day 1
5:20 PM - 5:35 PM
Contributions

5:20 PM Closing of Day 1 - Megi Sharikadze (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre)
5:55 PM Guided Tours

5:55 PM - 6:55 PM

7:00 PM Sponsored Event: “Open Web Search community meet-up”

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Thursday, October 10, 2024
9:00 AM Keynote 2: Richard Socher (CEO of You.com): Keynote 2
Keynote 2
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Keynote 2: "You.com" - Richard Socher (CEO of You.com)
10:00 AM Search Engine Track: "Alternative Search Engines": Search Engine Track: "Alternative Search Engines"
Search Engine Track: "Alternative Search Engines"
10:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

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

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

10:20 AM 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 AM Coffee Break | Exhibition
Coffee Break | Exhibition
10:40 AM - 11:20 AM
11:20 AM Parallel Sessions: "LLMs, RAG and NER": Parallel Sessions: "LLMs, RAG and NER"
Parallel Sessions: "LLMs, RAG and NER"
11:20 AM - 12:40 PM
Contributions

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

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

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

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

12:20 PM 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"
Parallel Sessions: "Preprocessing and ML for Search"
11:20 AM - 12:40 PM
Contributions

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

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

11:40 AM 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 PM Impact of Tokenization Techniques on URL Classification - Mohammed Al-Maamari

12:20 PM Web Page Classification using Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Clustering Technique - Hema Pandey
12:40 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:40 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Keynote: Keynote
Keynote
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Keynote: “The Internet of monopolies. How we are taking back the net” - Martin Andree (Bestselling Author & Researcher at University of Cologne)
3:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM Workshop Session: Workshop 1: Workshop Session: Workshop 1
Workshop Session: Workshop 1
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM Workshop 1: Economy - Organisers: Olivier Blanchard; Daniel Nowakovski
Workshop Session: Workshop 2: Workshop Session: "Workshop 2"
Workshop Session: "Workshop 2"
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM 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
5:30 PM Closing of Day 2: Closing of Day 2
Closing of Day 2
5:30 PM - 5:45 PM

5:45 PM Guided Tours: Guided Tours
Guided Tours
5:45 PM - 6:45 PM

7:30 PM Conference Dinner (self-hosted)
Conference Dinner (self-hosted)
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Friday, October 11, 2024
9:00 AM Keynote: "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"
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Keynote: "Digital Discourse: how the Wikipedia Community safeguards the quality of the digital encyclopedia" - Nina Leseberg (Head of Communities & Engagement, Wikimedia Deutschland)
9:45 AM 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”
anel Session Ethics & Society 1: “Exploring and defining the ethical foundations of web search”
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Contributions

9:45 AM Panel Session Ethics & Society 1: "“Exploring and defining the ethical foundations of web search”" - Session Chair: Christine Plote (Open Search Foundation OSF)
10:45 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
11:15 AM Workshop Session: "Ethics & Society 2": Workshop Session: "Ethics & Society 2"
Workshop Session: "Ethics & Society 2"
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Contributions

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

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

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

11:55 AM From Free Software to Open Source: Traversing the Values and Ethics of Open Search Infrastructures - Renée Ridgway (Aarhus University)
12:15 PM Student Session: "Young Innovators for Open Web Search”
"Young Innovators for Open Web Search”
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

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

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

12:36 PM "Exploring Curation Strategies for an Open Web Index" - Felice Douglas (Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart) Susanne Krol
1:00 PM Wrap-up - Closing of #ossym 2023 - Way ahead: Wrap-up - Closing of #ossym 2023 - Way ahead
Wrap-up - Closing of #ossym 2023 - Way ahead
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Contributions

1:00 PM Wrap-up - Closing of #ossym 2023 - Way ahead: Wrap-up - Closing of #ossym 2023 - Way ahead

1:15 PM End of Symposium