The workshop will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, on 24th March, 2024, 09:00-16:30 (local time). The workshop program is structured as follows.

Timing Content
09:00
09:05		 Welcome Message
09:05
10:30		 Paper Session I
  • 09:05 - 09:20 (10 mins + 5 mins Q&A)
    GeoEDdA: A Gold Standard Dataset for Geo-semantic Annotation of Diderot & d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie
    Ludovic Moncla, Denis Vigier, Katherine McDonough
    In-presence
  • 09:20 - 09:35 (10 mins + 5 mins Q&A)
    Geolocation Extraction from Reddit Text Data
    Mila Stillman, Anna Kruspe
    In-presence
  • 09:35 - 09:50 (10 mins + 5 mins Q&A)
    Detecting Entity Descriptions from Chinese Historical Texts
    Ye Xia, Bin Wang, Linxuan Yu, Hui Li
    Remote
  • 09:50 - 10:05 (10 mins + 5 mins Q&A)
    Towards a Geoparsing Pipeline for the Web
    Sheikh Mastura Farzana, Tobias Hecking
    In-presence
  • 10:05 - 10:20 (10 mins + 5 mins Q&A)
    Where is the news? Improving toponym identification and differentiation in online news
    Joseph Shingleton, Ana Basiri
    In-presence
10:30
11:00		 Coffee Break
11:00
12:30		 Paper Session II
  • 11:00- 11:15 (10 mins + 5 mins Q&A)
    Fine-Tuning Transformers for Toponym Resolution: A Contextual Embedding Approach to Candidate Ranking
    Diego Gomes, Ross S. Purves, Michele Volpi
    In-presence
  • 11:15 - 11:30 (10 mins + 5 mins Q&A)
    Enhancing Toponym Resolution with Fine-Tuned LLMs (Llama2)
    Xuke Hu, Jens kersten
    In-presence
  • 11:30 - 11:45 (10 mins + 5 mins Q&A)
    Evidence for Systematic Bias in the Spatial Memory of GPT-4
    Nir Fulman, Abdulkadir Memduhoğlu, Alexander Zipf
    In-presence
  • 11:45- 12:00 (10 mins + 5 mins Q&A)
    Exploring Spatial Representations in the Historical Lake District Texts with LLM-based Relation Extraction
    Erum Haris, Anthony G. Cohn, John G. Stell
    Remote
  • 12:00 - 12:15 (10 mins + 5 mins Q&A)
    Mapping Global Protest Tendencies: Geolocating Trends and Topics Through Wikipedia Analysis
    Jiyun Beak, Ludovic Moncla
    In-presence
12:30
13:50		 Lunch
13:50
14:30		 Keynote Talk
(30 mins + 10 mins Q&A)
News Media as a Lens: Exploring Neighbourhood Health through the Analysis of Geoparsed and Clustered Local News
Dr. Beatrice Alex from The University of Edinburgh
In-presence
14:30
15:00		 Paper Session III
  • 14:30 - 14:45 (10 mins + 5 mins Q&A)
    The Semantics of generic terms in toponyms: Formal Semantics meets multi-source Big Data
    Giuseppe Samo, Francesco-Alessio Ursini
    Remote
  • 14:45- 15:00 (10 mins + 5 mins Q&A)
    Do Sentence Transformers Learn Quasi-Geospatial Concepts from General Text
    Ilya Ilyankou, Aldo Lipani, Stefano Cavazzi, Xiaowei Gao, James Haworth
    In-presence
15:00
15:30		 Coffee Break
15:30
16:25		 Open Discussions
16:25
16:30		 Closing Message