Date: April 2

Location: On site: Lijm & Cultuur (Rotterdamseweg 272, 2628 AT Delft); and online

Timing Content
8:55 - 9:00 Opening
9:00 - 10:00 Paper Session I
  • Multilingual Synthetic Corpora for Geoparsing using Large Language Models
    Presenters: Ilya Ilyankou, Franz Welscher, Paddy Smith and Tatu Leppämäki
  • A training corpus for walking movements in semi-natural environments
    Presenters: Abdelkrim Tafer, Mauro Gaio and Javier Lacasta Miguel
  • Towards Spatially Grounded and Multilingual Event Relation Extraction
    Presenters: Jan Bongard, Xuke Hu, Jens Kersten, Alexander Brenning and Friederike Klan
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 Paper Session II
  • Extracting and aggregating hierarchical toponyms in abstracts of scientific articles in urban studies
    Presenters: Tianye Ren, Nan Bai and Ana Pereira Roders
  • Spatiotemporal Inference of Landslide Events by Fusing Geographic Features and Social Media Information
    Presenters: Bing Xu and Alexander Brenning
  • Geolocating News about Extreme Climate Events: A comparative analysis of off-the-shelf tools for toponym identification in German
    Presenters: Brielen Madureira, Mariana Madruga de Brito and Andreas Niekler
  • Geoparsing of Spatial Coordinates in Brazilian Land Tenure Documents with Deep Learning
    Presenters: Taís Pereira, Mauro Alixandrini, Jorge Pedreira Junior and Vivian Fernandes
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:15 Keynote Talk
Title: Location language, language models and gazetteers
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Christopher Jones
14:15 - 15:00 Paper Session III
  • Automatic Construction of a Geo-Historical Knowledge Graph from Early Modern Encyclopedic Texts
    Presenters: Bin Yang, Ludovic Moncla, Fabien Duchateau and Frédérique Laforest
  • EndoLink: A Knowledge Graph-Based Platform for Crowdsourced Endonym and Place Name Collection
    Presenters: Janine Laura Hindermann and Sina Ahmadi
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:30 Paper Session IV
  • Determinants of geographic information quality in Large language models: effects of model family, scale, language, quantization, and fine-tuning
    Presenters: Rémy Decoupes and Adrien Guille
  • Evaluating large vision-language models on geographic language understanding
    Presenters: Ruoyao Wang, Egoitz Laparra and Steven Bethard
  • Using LLMs for News: Understanding the Geographic Coverage of News Generated by LLMs
    Presenters: Anagani Bhanusree and Sai Divya Vissamsetty
16:30 - 16:45 Closing