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, 9 October 2024 (09:00) to Friday, 11 October 2024 (16:00)

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 (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre LRZ)

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

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, Djoerd Hiemstra; Arjen de Vries

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; Sebastian Gürtl; Johannes Honeder; Tobias Hecking; Christian Gütl
14:40
14:40 - 15:25
Contributions

14:40 NGI Track „Next Generation Internet“ - Session Chair: tbd

14:41 NGI Search - Mirko Presser
15:25 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:25 - 15:55

15:55 NGI4ALL
NGI4ALL
15:55 - 16:40
16:40 Science Track: "Search Applications and Technologies II"
Science Track: "Search Applications and Technologies II"
16:40 - 17:40
Contributions

16:40 Science Track „Search Applications and Technologies II“ - Session Chair: tbd

16:41 NeutrinoReview: CONCEPT PROPOSAL FOR AN OPEN SOURCE REVIEW MANAGEMENT TOOL - Elias Sandner, Christian Gütl; Igor Jakovljevic; Andreas Wagner

17:00 Scientific QA System with Verifiable Answers - Adela Ljajić; Miloš Košprdić; Bojana Bašaragin; Darija Medvecki; Lorenzo Cassano; Nikola Milosevic

17:20 Design Science Research for the development of a university course on the informed use of search engines - Melanie Platz
17:40 Closing of Day 1
Closing of Day 1
17:40 - 17:55
Thursday, 10 October 2024
09:00 Keynote 2
Keynote 2
09:00 - 10:00
Contributions

09:00 Keynote 2: "You.com" - Richard Socher
10:00 Industry Track: "Alternative Search Engines"
Industry Track: "Alternative Search Engines"
10:00 - 10:40
Contributions

10:00 Industry Track „Alternative Search Engines“ - Session Chair: tbd
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: tbd

11:21 A Dataset of GDPR Compliant NER for Privacy Policies - Harshil Darji, Stefan Becher, Jelena Mitrovic, Armin Gerl, Michael Granitzer

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

12:00 Utilising Transformer Models for Controllable Scientific Abstractive Summarization - Sarah Frank, Sebastian Johannes Weidinger, Christian Gütl, Andreas Wagner

12:20 Creating explainable summaries for long scientific documents using large language models - Sarah Frank; Sebastian Schäffer; Alexander Steinmaurer, Christian Gütl; Alexander Nussbaumer; Andreas Wagner
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, Rafaela Kastor, Jörg Rapp, Svenja Müller

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, Mahmoud Istaiti, Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Dinzinger, Michael Granitzer, Jelena Mitrovic

12:20 Web Page Classification using Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Clustering Technique - Hema Pandey, Tobias Elssner, Jens Kersten
12:40 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:40 - 14:00
14:00 Keynote 2
Keynote 2
14:00 - 14:50
Contributions

14:00 Keynote - Martin Andree (Bestselling Author & Researcher at University of Cologne)
14:50 Workshop Session: Workshop 1
Workshop Session: Workshop 1
14:50 - 15:30
Contributions

14:50 Workshop 1: Economy
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Workshop Session: "Workshop 2"
Workshop Session: "Workshop 2"
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Workshop 2: Legal
17:30 Guided Tours
Guided Tours
17:30 - 18:30

18:30 Closing of Day 2
Closing of Day 2
18:30 - 18:45

19:30 Conference Dinner (self-hosted)
Conference Dinner (self-hosted)
19:30 - 22:00
Friday, 11 October 2024

09:00 Keynote 4
Keynote 4
09:00 - 09:45
09:45 Workshop Session: "Ethics & Society 1"
Workshop Session: "Ethics & Society 1"
09:45 - 10:45
Contributions

09:45 Workshop Session „Ethics & Society 1“ - 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

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
12:15 Wikimedia Session: "Wiki Curation"
Wikimedia Session: "Wiki Curation"
12:15 - 13:30
Contributions

12:15 Wikimedia Session „Wiki Curation“ - Nina Leseberg (Wikimedia Germany)
13:30 Wrap-up - Closing of #ossym 2023 - Way ahead
Wrap-up - Closing of #ossym 2023 - Way ahead
13:30 - 14:00

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