👀 Look what we found! The #wows24 report was published in the SIGIR Forum June issue 🙌: https://sigir.org/forum/issues/june-2024/

The international Workshop on Open Web Search #wows24 was organized by a team of OWS.EU researchers and took place as an #ECIR24 side event in Glasgow in March.

The goal of the first #wows workshop was to unite researchers passionate about #opensource and collaborative development and evaluation of web search components.

Full report:
https://sigir.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/p13.pdf

🙌 Wow! The #wows24 proceedings showcase 8 relevant research papers + one Keynote topic on #OpenWebSearch

The information + retrieval & OpenWebSearch community met in Glasgow in March at the first International Workshop on Open Web Search #wows2024, co-located with #ecir2024

The proceedings are now available to the public:
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3689/

Thank you to the editors:
Sheikh Mastura Farzana
@maik_froebe Fröbe
@gijs Hendriksen
@grani Granitzer
@djoerd
@potthast Potthast
Saber Zerhoudi

⏱ Deadline extended
The #wows24 Call for Papers & Software deadline was extended to 28 February.

Lose no more time and hand in your ideas:
The information retrieval community is invited to submit scientific papers & implementations of retrieval components for the first #wows24.

The International Workshop on Open Web Search takes place in Glasgow on 28 March (co-located with ECIR 2024).

Details: https://opensearchfoundation.org/en/events-osf/wows2024/
#wows24 #callforpapers #callforsoftware #glasgow #ECIR #OpenWebSearch

🗣️ Kind Reminder! The 1st International Workshop on #OpenWebSearch (#wows24) takes place in Glasgow this March.

Hand in your papers and/or softwares now!
Deadlines for submissions is February 14 2024.
➡️ Submission forms here:
https://opensearchfoundation.org/en/events-osf/wows2024/

📌 Main conference topics include
-Crawling for an Open Web Index,
-Collaborative crawling
-Large scale web data pre-processing components or pipelines
-Pre-processing and Enrichment
-Indexing and Search Architectures
and much more!

btw: The #wows24 organisation team offers #mentoring for the practical part of submitting to early-stage #students such as master's and bachelor's students!

https://opensearchfoundation.org/wows2024

#SaveTheDate + get your papers + software ready! #wows24 – 1st International Workshop on #OpenWebSearch
https://opensearchfoundation.org/wows2024

Phd students, early-stage (Master’s/Bachelor’s) students
#ComputerScience #InformationScience #InformationRetrieval #NLP

Organisers
Sheikh Mastura Farzana, @DLR @maik_froebe Fröbe, Uni Jena
@gijs, @Radboud_uni
@grani, Uni Passau
@djoerd @djoerd @djoerd, Radboud Uni
@potthast, @unileipzig Saber Zerhoudi, Uni Passau

@openwebsearcheu
@ecir2024 @EC_NGI @SIGIRlist