OSSYM 2024 - 6th International Open Search Symposium

from Wednesday, October 9, 2024 (9:00 AM) to Friday, October 11, 2024 (4:00 PM)
Leibniz Supercomputing Centre LRZ, Munich, Germany and Online

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Oct 9, 2024
Oct 10, 2024
Oct 11, 2024
AM
9:00 AM
Conference Opening & Opening Keynote (until 10:00 AM)
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 ---
10:30 AM
Science Track: "Crawling and Infrastructure" - Session Chair: Andreas Wagner (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) (until 12:10 PM)
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  
9:00 AM
Keynote 2: Richard Socher (CEO of You.com) (until 10:00 AM)
9:00 AM Keynote 2: "You.com" - Richard Socher (CEO of You.com)  
10:00 AM
Search Engine Track: "Alternative Search Engines" - Session Chair: Christine Plote (Open Search Foundation, Germany) (until 10:40 AM)
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 ---
11:20 AM
Parallel Sessions: "LLMs, RAG and NER" - Session chair: tbd (until 12:40 PM)
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 - Tobias Hecking Oliver Bensch  
12:00 PM Utilising Transformer Models for Controllable Scientific Abstractive Summarization - Sebastian Johannes Weidinger Sarah Frank  
12:20 PM Creating explainable summaries for long scientific documents using large language models - Sebastian Schäffer (Graz University of Technology)  
11:20 AM
Parallel Sessions: "Preprocessing and ML for Search" - Session chair: Sheikh Mastura Farzana (German Aerospace Center DLR) (until 12:40 PM)
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  
9:00 AM
Keynote - Nina Leseberg (Head of Communities & Engagement, Wikimedia Deutschland) (until 9:45 AM)
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” - Christine Plote (Open Search Foundation OSF) (until 10:45 AM)
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 ---
11:15 AM
Workshop Session: "Ethics & Society 2" - Session Chair: Alexander Nußbaumer (Graz University of Technology) (until 12:15 PM)
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)  
PM
12:10 PM --- Lunch Break and Guided Tours ---
1:40 PM
Science Track: "Search Applications and Technologies I" - Session Chair: Elias Sandner (Graz University of Technology & CERN) (until 2:40 PM)
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 - Mr Alexander Nussbaumer (Graz University of Technology)  
2:40 PM
NGI Track: "Next Generation Internet" (until 3:40 PM)
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 ---
4:20 PM
Science Track: "Search Applications and Technologies II" (until 5:20 PM)
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 - Igor Jakovljevic; Alice Simniceanu; Luca Fontana; Andre Henriques; Andreas Wagner; Christian Gütl Elias Sandner (Graz University of Technology (AT))  
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" - Prof. Melanie Platz  
5:20 PM
Closing of Day 1 (until 5:35 PM)
5:20 PM Closing of Day 1 - Megi Sharikadze (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre)  
5:55 PM
Guided Tours (until 6:55 PM)
7:00 PM
Sponsored Event: “Open Web Search community meet-up” (until 9:00 PM)
12:40 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM
Keynote (until 3:00 PM)
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 ---
3:30 PM
Workshop Session: Workshop 1 (until 5:30 PM)
3:30 PM Workshop 1: Economy - Organisers: Olivier Blanchard; Daniel Nowakovski  
3:30 PM
Workshop Session: Workshop 2 (until 5:30 PM)
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 (until 5:45 PM)
5:45 PM
Guided Tours (until 6:45 PM)
7:30 PM --- Conference Dinner (self-hosted) ---
12:15 PM
Student Session - Session Chair: Stefan Voigt (German Aerospace Centre / Open Search Foundation, Germany) (until 1:00 PM)
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" - Susanne Krol Felice Douglas (Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart)  
1:00 PM
Wrap-up - Closing of #ossym 2023 - Way ahead (until 1:30 PM)
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