Date: April 10, 2025

Location: Aula IMT 1 – IMT Campus

Timing Content
14:30 – 14:35 Opening
14:35 – 15:15 Keynote Talk
Title: From Toponym Resolution to Advanced Models of Spatial Grounding: Past, Present and (One Possible) Future
Speaker: Jochen L. Leidner
15:15 – 16:00 Paper Session I
  • Comparing Geospatiality of Topics Between Geotag- and Geoparsing-based Geolocations
    Presenters: Johannes Mast, Richard Lemoine Rodriguez, Vanessa Rittlinger, Christian Geiss, and Hannes Taubenböck
  • Extracting Spatial Entities Involved in the Description of a Movement Action Using Deep Learning Methods: A Comparative Study of Three Models
    Presenters: Abdelkirm Tafer and Mauro Gaio
  • A Geoparsing Pipeline for Multilingual Social Media Posts from Ukraine (Online)
    Presenters: Maxim Mironov, Alexander Marquard, Daniel Racek, Christian Heumann, Paul W. Thurner, and Matthias Aßenmacher
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 16:55 Industry Session (Online)
Title: Automatic geolocation and map-based retrieval of unstructured geoscience documents using weighted spatial statistics, novel user interfaces, and Elasticsearch
Presenters: Peter Bormann, Alwyn Rowlands and Jesse Lord
16:55 – 17:55 Paper Session II
  • Biased Geolocation in LLMs: Experiments on Probing LLMs for Geographic Knowledge and Reasoning
    Presenters: Mila Stillman and Anna Kruspe
  • Scalable Toponym Resolution with LLMs: Speed and Accuracy Optimizations
    Presenters: Xuke Hu, Jens Kersten, and Friederike Klan
  • Assessing Performance in Extracting Topological, Direction, and Distance Spatial Relations from Reddit Using LLMs
    Presenters: Paddy Smith, Ed Manley, and Myles Gould
  • Generating Synthetic Oracle Datasets to Analyze Noise Impact: A Study on Building Function Classification Using Tweets
    Presenters: Shanshan Bai, Anna Kruspe, and Xiaoxiang Zhu
17:55 – 18:00 Closing