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Fourth International Workshop on Geographic Information Extraction from Texts (GeoExT)

to be held at the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026) in Delft, The Netherlands, April 2, 2026

A wealth of unstructured textual content implicitly holds geographic insights that are valuable across various domains, such as geographic search, disaster management, spatial humanities, and disease surveillance. These applications rely on different text types and languages, target different geographic regions, operate at scales from small to large data streams, and require varying levels of geographic detail. Despite recent advances in the extraction of geographic information from texts, including LLM-based methods, existing approaches cannot fully meet these diverse needs, particularly in contexts with limited computational resources or scarce language support.

The Fourth Workshop will provide a forum to explore methodological innovations, application-driven approaches, dataset creation and annotation, and interdisciplinary perspectives. By emphasizing solutions tailored to specific requirements, the workshop seeks to advance both the foundations and the practical impact of GeoExT.

The workshop is supported by the Working Group (Global mapping for SDGs) of ISPRS Technical Commission IV/III.