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OSSYM 2024 - 6th International Open Search Symposium

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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

Science Tracks

  • Crawling and Infrastructure
  • Search Applications and Technologies
  • Preprocessing and ML for Search
  • LLMs and RAG
     
     

Sessions + Workshops

  • Ethics + Society
  • Wiki/Curation
  • NGI
  • Legal aspects of open web search

Industry Track
“Alternative Search Engines”

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
  • Wednesday 9 October
    • Conference Opening & Opening Keynote
      • 1
        Conference Opening
        Speaker: Dieter Kranzlmüller (LRZ), Florian Herrmann (State Minister, Head of the Bavarian State Chancellery)
      • 2
        Keynote „Opening Keynote“
        Speaker: Roberto Viola (Director General, Communications Networks, Content and Technology, European Commission)
    • 10:00
      Coffee Break
    • Science Track: "Crawling and Infrastructure"
      Convener: Session Chair: Andreas Wagner (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
      • 3
        Science Track: „Crawling and Infrastructure“
        Speaker: Session Chair: Andreas Wagner (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
      • 4
        Architecting the Opensearch Service at CERN For OpenWebSearch.EU
        Speaker: Noor Afshan Fathima; Andreas Wagner, Michael Dinzinger; Stavros Moiras; Michael Granitzer
        OSSYM-Presentation-1.pdf
        OSSYM-Presentation-1.pptx
      • 5
        Atra: A Powerful, Lightweigt Approach to Crawling
        Speaker: Felix Engl (University of Bamberg)
        OSSYM-2024--CIN-P02--S08--Atra--F-Engl--presentation--v01.pdf
      • 6
        OWLer: A Distributed and Collaborative Open Web Crawler
        Speaker: Michael Dinzinger, Michael Granitzer; Jelena Mitrovic; Saber Zerhoudi
        OWLer_OSSYM2024.pptx
      • 7
        Federated Data Infrastructure for the Open Web Search
        Speaker: 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
        ossym24-presentation-2.pdf
        ossym24-presentation-2.pptx
      • 8
        Open Console
        Speaker: Mark Overmeer; Thao Nguyen
        20241009-OWS-ossym.odp
    • 12:10
      Lunch Break and Guided Tours
    • NGI Track: "Next Generation Internet"
      • 13
        NGI Track „Next Generation Internet“
        Speaker: Session Chair: Megi Sharikadze (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Germany)
      • 14
        NGI Search "Implications of an open web index for search, discovery, and indexing projects”"
        Speaker: Mirko Presser
    • 15:40
      Coffee Break
    • Closing of Day 1
      • 19
        Closing of Day 1
        Speaker: Megi Sharikadze (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre)
    • Guided Tours
    • Sponsored Event: “Open Web Search community meet-up”
  • Thursday 10 October
    • Keynote 2: Richard Socher (CEO of You.com): Keynote 2
      • 20
        Keynote 2: "You.com"
        Speaker: Richard Socher (CEO of You.com)
    • Search Engine Track: "Alternative Search Engines"
      Convener: Session Chair: Christine Plote (Open Search Foundation, Germany)
      • 21
        Search Engine Track “Alternative Search Engines”
        Speaker: Session Chair: Christine Plote (Open Search Foundation, Germany)
      • 23
        Meta-Press.es
        Speaker: 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
    • Parallel Sessions: "LLMs, RAG and NER"
      Convener: Session chair: tbd
      • 24
        Parallel Sessions: "LLMs, RAG and NER"
        Speaker: Session chair: Jelena Mitrovic (University of Passau, Germany)
      • 25
        A Dataset of GDPR Compliant NER for Privacy Policies
        Speaker: Harshil Darji (Universität Passau)
        ossym24.pdf
      • 26
        Retrieval Augmented Generation and Scientific Knowledge Graphs to Support Scientific Hypotheses Generation
        Speakers: Oliver Bensch, Tobias Hecking
        OSSYM_24_RAG-LBD.pdf
        OSSYM_24_RAG-LBD.pptx
      • 27
        Utilising Transformer Models for Controllable Scientific Abstractive Summarization
        Speakers: Sarah Frank, Sebastian Johannes Weidinger
        OSSYM2024.pdf
      • 28
        Creating explainable summaries for long scientific documents using large language models
        Speaker: Sebastian Schäffer (Graz University of Technology)
        Creating explainable summaries for long scientific documents using large language models.pdf
    • Parallel Sessions: "Preprocessing and ML for Search"
      Convener: Session chair: Sheikh Mastura Farzana (German Aerospace Center DLR)
      • 29
        Parallel Sessions: "Preprocessing and ML for Search"
        Speaker: Session chair: Sheikh Mastura Farzana
      • 30
        Search, Find, Cite and Apply Grammar Rules for Textgeneration
        Speaker: Engelbert Niehaus
        OSSYM2024_Mueller_Rapp_Kastor_Niehaus.pdf
      • 31
        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
        Speaker: Vanessa Rittlinger; Sheikh Mastura Farzana, Xuke Hu, Hema Pandey, Stefan Voigt, Christian Geiß, Hannes Taubenboeck
        OSSYM_presentation_finalVR.pdf
        OSSYM_presentation_finalVR.pptx
      • 32
        Impact of Tokenization Techniques on URL Classification
        Speaker: Mohammed Al-Maamari
        OSSYM2024-Presentation.pdf
      • 33
        Web Page Classification using Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Clustering Technique
        Speaker: Hema Pandey
    • 12:40
      Lunch Break
    • Keynote
      • 34
        Keynote: “The Internet of monopolies. How we are taking back the net”
        Speaker: Martin Andree (Bestselling Author & Researcher at University of Cologne)
    • 15:00
      Coffee Break
    • Workshop Session: Workshop 1
      • 35
        Workshop 1: Economy
        Speaker: Organisers: Olivier Blanchard; Daniel Nowakovski
    • Workshop Session: Workshop 2: Workshop Session: "Workshop 2"
    • Closing of Day 2
    • Guided Tours
    • 19:30
      Conference Dinner (self-hosted)
  • Friday 11 October
    • Keynote: "Digital Discourse: how the Wikipedia Community safeguards the quality of the digital encyclopedia"
      Convener: Nina Leseberg (Head of Communities & Engagement, Wikimedia Deutschland)
      • 37
        Keynote: "Digital Discourse: how the Wikipedia Community safeguards the quality of the digital encyclopedia"
        Speaker: Nina Leseberg (Head of Communities & Engagement, Wikimedia Deutschland)
    • 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)
      • 38
        Panel Session Ethics & Society 1: "“Exploring and defining the ethical foundations of web search”"
        Speaker: Session Chair: Christine Plote (Open Search Foundation OSF)
    • 10:45
      Coffee Break
    • Workshop Session: "Ethics & Society 2"
      Convener: Session Chair: Alexander Nußbaumer (Graz University of Technology)
      • 39
        Ethics Session Ethics & Society 2
        Speaker: Session Chair: Alexander Nußbaumer
      • 40
        What makes an ethical smartphone OS? Digital rights strengthened by open source, open data and open standards
        Speaker: Rik Viergever (E Foundation)
        Murena_intro_20241010.pdf
      • 42
        From Free Software to Open Source: Traversing the Values and Ethics of Open Search Infrastructures
        Speaker: Renée Ridgway (Aarhus University)
    • Student Session: "Young Innovators for Open Web Search”
      Convener: Session Chair: Stefan Voigt (German Aerospace Centre / Open Search Foundation, Germany)
      • 43
        Student Session “Young Innovators for Open Web Search”
        Speaker: Session Chair: Stefan Voigt (German Aerospace Centre / Open Search Foundation, Germany)
      • 44
        “User-Driven Re-Ranking for Adapting the Variety in Search Results“
        Speaker: Daphne Auer; Birgitta Koenig-Ries; Divyasha Sunil Naik
        auer_ossym24.pdf
      • 45
        "Exploring Curation Strategies for an Open Web Index"
        Speakers: Felice Douglas (Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart), Susanne Krol
        hdm_krol_douglas.pdf
    • Wrap-up - Closing of #ossym 2023 - Way ahead
      • 46
        Wrap-up - Closing of #ossym 2023 - Way ahead: Wrap-up - Closing of #ossym 2023 - Way ahead
      • 47
        End of Symposium
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