OSSYM 2024 - 6th International Open Search Symposium

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

9 Oct 2024, 09:00 → 11 Oct 2024, 16:00 Europe/Zurich

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 Registration

Registration for the Open Search Symposium 2024 is open and can be accessed here

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”

Call for papers

Submission for Papers/Demos is closed.

Conference format

The conference will take place at Leibnitz Supercomputer Centre in Garching/Munich with the possibility of Online participation.

Conference Chairs

Prof. Dr. Michael Granitzer | University Passau, Germany
Prof. Dr. Christian Guetl | Graz University of Technology, Austria
Christine Plote | Open Search Foundation, Germany
Dr. Stefan Voigt | Open Search Foundation, Germany
Dr. Andreas Wagner | CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Local Organization:
LRZ – Leibniz Rechenzentrum

Registration

OSSYM 2024 Registration Form

Wednesday, 9 October
- Conference Opening & Opening Keynote
  - 1
    
    Conference Opening
    
    Speaker: Dieter Kranzlmüller (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre LRZ)
  - 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
  - 5
    
    Atra: A Powerful, Lightweigt Approach to Crawling
    
    Speaker: Felix Engl
  - 6
    
    OWLer: A Distributed and Collaborative Open Web Crawler
    
    Speaker: Michael Dinzinger, Michael Granitzer; Jelena Mitrovic; Saber Zerhoudi
  - 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
  - 8
    
    Open Console
    
    Speaker: Mark Overmeer; Thao Nguyen
- 12:10
  
  Lunch Break and Guided Tours
- Science Track: "Search Applications and Technologies I": Science Track: „Search Applications and Technologies I“
  
  Convener: Session Chair: Elias Sandner (Graz University of Technology & CERN)
  - 9
    
    Science Track „Search Applications and Technologies I“
    
    Speaker: Session Chair: Elias Sandner (Graz University of Technology & CERN)
  - 10
    
    An Open Source Implementation of Web Clustering Algorithms for Selective Search
    
    Speaker: Gijs Hendriksen, Djoerd Hiemstra; Arjen de Vries
  - 11
    
    Search reports as a way to make the (academic) search process and information evaluation comprehensible and transparent
    
    Speaker: Anna Neovesky
  - 12
    
    Enriching Science Search with the Open Search Framework MOSAIC
    
    Speaker: Alexander Nussbaumer; Sebastian Gürtl; Johannes Honeder; Tobias Hecking; Christian Gütl
- NGI Track: "Next Generation Internet"
  - 13
    
    NGI Track „Next Generation Internet“
    
    Speaker: Session Chair: tbd
  - 14
    
    NGI Search
    
    Speaker: Mirko Presser
- 15:25
  
  Coffee Break
- NGI4ALL
- Science Track: "Search Applications and Technologies II"
  - 15
    
    Science Track „Search Applications and Technologies II“
    
    Speaker: Session Chair: tbd
  - 16
    
    NeutrinoReview: CONCEPT PROPOSAL FOR AN OPEN SOURCE REVIEW MANAGEMENT TOOL
    
    Speaker: Elias Sandner, Christian Gütl; Igor Jakovljevic; Andreas Wagner
  - 17
    
    Scientific QA System with Verifiable Answers
    
    Speaker: Adela Ljajić; Miloš Košprdić; Bojana Bašaragin; Darija Medvecki; Lorenzo Cassano; Nikola Milosevic
  - 18
    
    Design Science Research for the development of a university course on the informed use of search engines
    
    Speaker: Melanie Platz
- Closing of Day 1
Thursday, 10 October
- Keynote 2
  - 19
    
    Keynote 2: "You.com"
    
    Speaker: Richard Socher
- Industry Track: "Alternative Search Engines"
  
  Convener: Session Chair: tbd
  - 20
    
    Industry Track „Alternative Search Engines“
    
    Speaker: Session Chair: tbd
- 10:40
  
  Coffee Break | Exhibition
- Parallel Sessions: "LLMs, RAG and NER"
  
  Convener: Session chair: tbd
  - 21
    
    Parallel Sessions: "LLMs, RAG and NER"
    
    Speaker: Session chair: tbd
  - 22
    
    A Dataset of GDPR Compliant NER for Privacy Policies
    
    Speaker: Harshil Darji, Stefan Becher, Jelena Mitrovic, Armin Gerl, Michael Granitzer
  - 23
    
    Retrieval Augmented Generation and Scientific Knowledge Graphs to Support Scientific Hypotheses Generation
    
    Speaker: Oliver Bensch, Tobias Hecking, Nathan Kutz
  - 24
    
    Utilising Transformer Models for Controllable Scientific Abstractive Summarization
    
    Speaker: Sarah Frank, Sebastian Johannes Weidinger, Christian Gütl, Andreas Wagner
  - 25
    
    Creating explainable summaries for long scientific documents using large language models
    
    Speaker: Sarah Frank; Sebastian Schäffer; Alexander Steinmaurer, Christian Gütl; Alexander Nussbaumer; Andreas Wagner
- Parallel Sessions: "Preprocessing and ML for Search"
  
  Convener: Session chair: Sheikh Mastura Farzana (German Aerospace Center DLR)
  - 26
    
    Parallel Sessions: "Preprocessing and ML for Search"
    
    Speaker: Session chair: Sheikh Mastura Farzana
  - 27
    
    Search, Find, Cite and Apply Grammar Rules for Textgeneration
    
    Speaker: Engelbert Niehaus, Rafaela Kastor, Jörg Rapp, Svenja Müller
  - 28
    
    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
  - 29
    
    Impact of Tokenization Techniques on URL Classification
    
    Speaker: Mohammed Al-Maamari, Mahmoud Istaiti, Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Dinzinger, Michael Granitzer, Jelena Mitrovic
  - 30
    
    Web Page Classification using Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Clustering Technique
    
    Speaker: Hema Pandey, Tobias Elssner, Jens Kersten
- 12:40
  
  Lunch Break
- Keynote 2
  - 31
    
    Keynote
    
    Speaker: Martin Andree (Bestselling Author & Researcher at University of Cologne)
- Workshop Session: Workshop 1
  - 32
    
    Workshop 1: Economy
- 15:30
  
  Coffee Break
- Workshop Session: Workshop 2: Workshop Session: "Workshop 2"
  - 33
    
    Workshop 2: Legal
- Guided Tours
- Closing of Day 2
- 19:30
  
  Conference Dinner (self-hosted)
Friday, 11 October
- Keynote: Keynote 4
  
  Convener: tbd
- Workshop Session: "Ethics & Society 1"
  
  Convener: Christine Plote (Open Search Foundation OSF)
  - 34
    
    Workshop Session „Ethics & Society 1“
    
    Speaker: Christine Plote (Open Search Foundation OSF)
- 10:45
  
  Coffee Break
- Workshop Session: "Ethics & Society 2"
  
  Convener: Session Chair: Alexander Nußbaumer (Graz University of Technology)
  - 35
    
    Ethics Session Ethics & Society 2
    
    Speaker: Session Chair: Alexander Nußbaumer
  - 36
    
    What makes an ethical smartphone OS? Digital rights strengthened by open source, open data and open standards
    
    Speaker: Rik Viergever
  - 37
    
    Energy Efficency and Search (WT)
    
    Speaker: Alex de Vries
  - 38
    
    From Free Software to Open Source: Traversing the Values and Ethics of Open Search Infrastructures
    
    Speaker: Renée Ridgway
- Wikimedia Session: "Wiki Curation"
  
  Convener: Nina Leseberg (Wikimedia Germany)
  - 39
    
    Wikimedia Session „Wiki Curation“
    
    Speaker: Nina Leseberg (Wikimedia Germany)
- Wrap-up - Closing of #ossym 2023 - Way ahead

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