WOWS Calls for Participation are open!
The international Workshop on Open Web Search takes place for the 3rd time this year from ..to…. As a side event of ECIR 2026.
The Third International Workshop on Open Web Search (WOWS) aims to promote and discuss ideas and approaches to open up the web search ecosystem so that small research groups and young startups can leverage the web to foster an open and diverse search market.
Therefore, the workshop, which takes place at ECIR2026, has two calls that support collaborative and open web search engines: (1) for scientific contributions, and (2) for participation in the WOWS-Eval shared task for collaborative evaluations of the Open Web Index.
The organizers are now calling for papers and participation (deadline 26 February).
Topics include
- Crawling for an Open Web Index, Collaborative crawling
- Web deployment of search engines
- Standards for search and Interoperability
- Large scale web data pre-processing components or pipelines
- Pre-processing and Enrichment
- Indexing and Search Architectures
- Open infrastructures for evaluation
- Open source search engines
- Open source replicability
To name just a few.
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