6th International
6th International
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.
Conference Programme
Discuss interdisciplinary aspects of Open Search
technical • ethical • legal • educational • economic • applications
Keynotes
Roberto Viola
Director General, Communications Networks, Content and Technology, European Commission
Richard Socher
You.com
Martin Andree
Bestselling Author
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”
Registration
You can register for the conference via the system of our conference partner CERN.
*How to register*
In order to register for #ossym24 you have to follow 2 steps:
- You will need first to create a CERN Guest Account and log in with it: On the CERN Single Sign-On page click on “External email – Guest access” and then “Register”. Alternatively you can sign-in with eduGAIN or an external social account (GitHub, Google, LinkedIn, Facebook). If you already have an account with CERN, you can use it.
- After logging in with your (new) CERN account, please fill in the form at CERN to register for the #ossym24. Once registered you will receive an email confirmation.
Overview timetable
Day 1 | 9 Oct. 24
09:00 | Conference Opening
Welcome
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
10.30 | Science Track
“Crawling and Infrastructure”
Session Chair: Andreas Wagner (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
10.30 “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
14:40 | Science Track
“Search Applications and Technologies I”
Session Chair: Elias Sandner
13.40 “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 | NGI Track
“Next Generation Internet”
Session Chair: tbd
14.40 NGI Search
Mirko Presser
15.25 | Coffee Break
15.55 NGI4ALL
NN
16:40 | Science Track
“Search Applications and Technologies II”
Session Chair: tbd
16.40 “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
Megi Sharikadze
17:55 | Guided Tours
Day 2 | 10 Oct. 24
9:00 | Keynote 2
You.com
Richard Socher
10:00 | Industry Track
„Alternative Search Engines“
Session Chair: tbd
10:40 | Coffee Break | Exhibition
11:20 | Parallel Sessions
Preprocessing and ML for Search
Session chair: Sheikh Mastura Farzana
11.20 “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
11:20 | Parallel Sessions
LLMs, RAG and NER
Session chair: tbd
11.20 “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
12:40 | Lunch Break
14:00 | Keynote 2
Keynote
Martin Andree
Bestselling Author & Researcher at University of Cologne
14:50 | Workshop Session:
Workshop 1 & 2
14.50 Workshop 1:
Economy
Session Chair: tbc
15:30| Coffee Break
16.00 Workshop 2:
Legal Challenges and Opportunities for an Open Web Index: Insights & Discussions from Leading Research Projects
Session Chair: Priv.-Doz. Dr. Christian Geminn, Mag. jur.
Organizers: Prof. Dr. Matthias Wendland, LL.M. (Havard), RA Paul C. Johannes, LL.M., Prof. Dr. Kai Erenli, LL.M. (it.law)
17.30 | Guided Tours
18:30 | Closing of Day 2
19:30 | Conference Dinner (self-hosted)
Day 3 | 11 Oct. 24
9:00 | Keynote
„Keynote 4“
tbc
9:45 | Workshop Session
“Ethics & Society 1”
Christine Plote
10:45 | Coffee Break
11:15 | Ethics Session
Ethics & Society 2
Session Chair: Alexander Nußbaumer
11.15 “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
“Digital Discourse: how the Wikipedia Community safteguards the quality of the digital encyclopedia.”
Nina Leseberg
13:30 | Closing
Wrap-up
Closing of #ossym 2023
Way ahead
Venue
Leibniz Rechenzentrum
Garching (Munich), Germany
Address
Leibniz-Rechenzentrum
Boltzmannstraße 1
D-85748 Garching (Munich)
How to get there
By Public Transport
From the main station:
Take U4/U5 to Odeonsplatz, then U6 direction Garching Forschungszentrum.
From the airport:
S-Bahn S8 (direction Hauptbahnhof) to the third stop, Ismaning (about 13 minutes). Take the regional bus 230 in the direction of Garching-Forschungszentrum, stop Boltzmannstraße.
Important note: The bus line 230 bypasses the research site only in one direction. To save you long waiting times, we recommend leaving the bus at the Garching-Forschungszentrum stop for the return journey in the direction of Ismaning.
From the S-Bahn area:
with all S-Bahn trains to Marienplatz, there in U6 direction Garching-Forschungszentrum.
By taxi
from airport: approx. 20-30 min., 30-40 Euro
from Ismaning: approx. 10 min., 12-15 Euro
from the city centre: approx. 20-30 min: 25-35 Euro
By car
From the south (e.g. Munich) as well as from the north (e.g. airport) preferably the motorway (A9) to the exit Garching Nord (exit 70). After the exit (either right or left) in the direction of research institutes, cross the intersection with the B11 and turn into Ludwig-Prandtl-Straße. Parking spaces are available on the left. The LRZ computer cube can be seen from a distance.
Organisers
Conference Chairs
Sheikh Mastura Farzana | German Aerospace Center, Germany
Prof. Dr. Michael Granitzer | University Passau, Germany
Alexander Nußbaumer | Graz University of Technology, Austria
Christine Plote | Open Search Foundation, Germany
Elias Sandner |CERN & Graz University of Technology, Austria
Dr. Andreas Wagner | CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Local Organization:
LRZ – Leibniz Rechenzentrum
Programme Committee
Prof. Emmanuel Cartier | European Commission JRCProf.
Dr. Alexander Decker | Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Germany
Prof. Dr. Kai Erenli | University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna, Austria
Msc. Maik Fröbe | Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany
Priv.-Doz Dr. Christian Geminn | University Kassel, Germany
Prof. Dr. Michael Granitzer | University Passau, Germany
Prof. Dr. Christian Guetl | Graz University of Technology, Austria
Prof. Dr. Andreas Henrich | University Bamberg, Germany
Prof. Djoerd Hiemstra | University of Twente, Radboud University, Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Robert Jäschke | Humboldt University Berlin & L3S, Hannover, Germany
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Nils Jensen | Ostfalia University of Applied Science, Wolfenbüttel, Germany
Prof. Dr. Mohammed Kaicer | Faculty of Sciences Kenitra, Morocco
Dr. Jens Kersten | German Aerospace Centre, Jena, Germany
Dr. Jelena Mitrovic | University of Passau, Germany
Prof. Dr. Engelbert Niehaus | University Koblenz-Landau, Landau, Germany
Dr. Jakub Piskorski | European Commission
Prof. Dr. Melanie Platz | Saarland University, Germany
Prof. Dr. Martin Potthast | Leipzig University, Germany
Prof. Dr. Mirko Presser | Aarhus University, Denmark
Prof. Dr. Georg Rehm | German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Berlin, Germany
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gianmaria Silvello | University of Padova, Italy
Dr. Tim Smith | CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Arjen P. de Vries | Radboud University, Netherlands
Dr. Stefan Voigt | Open Search Foundation, Germany
Dr. Andreas Wagner | CERN, Geneva, Switzerland