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<h1><a href="https://geo-ext.github.io/GeoExT2024/"><span class="CEURVOLACRONYM">GeoExT 2024</span></a><br>
<span class="CEURVOLTITLE">Geographic Information Extraction from Texts</span></h1>
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<span class="CEURFULLTITLE">Proceedings of The GeoExT 2024: Geographic Information Extraction from Texts Workshop</span><br>
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co-located with The 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (<a href="https://ecir2024.org/"><span class="CEURCOLOCATED">ECIR</span></a>)<br>
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<h3><span class="CEURLOCTIME">Glasgow, Scotland, March 24, 2024</span>.</h3>


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   <a href="https://scholar.google.de/citations?hl=en&user=xCj17L0AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate"><span class="CEURVOLEDITOR">Xuke Hu</span></a>, German Aerospace Center, Germany<br>
      <a href="https://www.geo.uzh.ch/~rsp/"><span class="CEURVOLEDITOR">Ross Purves</span></a>, University of Zurich, Switzerland<br>
      <a href="https://ludovicmoncla.github.io/"><span class="CEURVOLEDITOR">Ludovic Moncla</span></a>, INSA Lyon, France<br>
      <a href="https://www.dlr.de/dw/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-12207/21398_read-37046/sortby-lastname/"><span class="CEURVOLEDITOR">Jens Kersten</span></a>, German Aerospace Center, Germany<br>
            <a href="https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=993350"><span class="CEURVOLEDITOR">Kristin Stock</span></a>, Massey University, New Zealand<br>
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<h2> Table of Contents </h2>

Summary: There were <span class="CEURSUBMITTEDPAPERS">14</span> papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, <span class="CEURACCEPTEDPAPERS">12</span> papers were accepted for this volume,
<span class="CEURACCEPTEDREGULARPAPERS">8</span> as regular papers and <span class="CEURACCEPTEDSHORTPAPERS">4</span> as short papers.


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<li id="xpreface">
<A href="preface.pdf">Preface</A><BR>
Xuke Hu, Ross Purves, Ludovic Moncla, Jens Kersten, Kristin Stock
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<li id="sample-1col"><a href="paper1.pdf">
<span class="CEURTITLE">GeoEDdA: A Gold Standard Dataset for Geo-semantic Annotation of Diderot & d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie</span></a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">1-10</span>
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<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Ludovic Moncla</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Denis Vigier</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Katherine McDonough</span>
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<li id="sample-2col"><a href="paper2.pdf">
<span class="CEURTITLE">Geolocation Extraction From Reddit Text Data</span></a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">11-20</span>
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<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Mila Stillman</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Anna Kruspe</span>
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<li id="CEUR-Template-1col"><a href="paper3.pdf">
<span class="CEURTITLE">Detecting Entity Descriptions from Chinese Historical Texts</span></a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">21-24</span>
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<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Ye Xia</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Bin Wang</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Linxuan Yu</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Xiaoci Lin</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Hui Li</span>
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<li id="CEUR-Template-2col"><a href="paper4.pdf">
<span class="CEURTITLE">Towards a Scalable Geoparsing Approach for the Web</span></a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">25-33</span>
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<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Sheikh Mastura Farzana</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Tobias Hecking</span>
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<li id="CEUR-Template-2col1"><a href="paper5.pdf">
<span class="CEURTITLE">Where is the News? Improving Toponym Identification and Differentiation in Online News</span></a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">34-42</span>
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<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Joseph Shingleton</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Ana Basiri</span>
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<li id="CEUR-Template-2col2"><a href="paper6.pdf">
<span class="CEURTITLE">Fine-Tuning Transformers for Toponym Resolution: A Contextual Embedding Approach to Candidate Ranking</span></a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">43-51</span>
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<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Diego Gomes</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Ross S. Purves</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Michele Volpi</span>
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<li id="CEUR-Template-2col3"><a href="paper7.pdf">
<span class="CEURTITLE">Enhancing Toponym Resolution with Fine-Tuned LLMs (Llama2)</span></a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">52-56</span>
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<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Xuke Hu</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Jens Kersten</span>
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<li id="CEUR-Template-2col2"><a href="paper8.pdf">
<span class="CEURTITLE">Evidence for Systematic Bias in the Spatial Memory of Large Language Models</span></a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">57-62</span>
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<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Nir Fulman</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Abdulkadir Memduhoğlu</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Alexander Zipf</span>
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<li id="CEUR-Template-2col2"><a href="paper9.pdf">
<span class="CEURTITLE">Exploring Spatial Representations in the Historical Lake District Texts with LLM-based Relation Extraction</span></a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">63-73</span>
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<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Erum Haris</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Anthony G. Cohn</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">John G. Stell</span>
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<li id="CEUR-Template-2col2"><a href="paper10.pdf">
<span class="CEURTITLE">Mapping Global Protest Tendencies: Geolocating Trends and Topics Through Wikipedia Analysis</span></a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">74-78</span>
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<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Jiyun Beak</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Ludovic Moncla</span>
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<li id="CEUR-Template-2col2"><a href="paper11.pdf">
<span class="CEURTITLE">The Semantics of Generic Terms in Toponyms: Formal Semantics Meets Multi-source Big Data</span></a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">79-90</span>
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<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Giuseppe Samo</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Francesco-Alessio Ursini</span>
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<li id="CEUR-Template-2col2"><a href="paper12.pdf">
<span class="CEURTITLE">Do Sentence Transformers Learn Quasi-Geospatial Concepts from General Text?</span></a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">91-105</span>
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<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Ilya Ilyankou</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Aldo Lipani</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Stefano Cavazzi</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Xiaowei Gao</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">James Haworth</span>
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