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# GeoExT 2026
Fourth International Workshop on Geographic Information Extraction from Texts

## Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Geographic Information Extraction from Texts
co-located with 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026)

## Delft, The Netherlands, April 2, 2026.

Edited by

### Xuke Hu 1
Ludovic Moncla 2
Jens Kersten 1
Anna Kruspe 3
Inhye Kong 4

1 German Aerospace Center, Germany
2 INSA Lyon, France
3 Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
4 University of Zurich, Switzerland

## Table of Contents

- Preface
  Summary: There were 16 papers submitted for peer review to this workshop. Out of these, 12 papers were accepted for this volume.

- Geolocating News about Extreme Climate Events: A Comparative Analysis of Off-the-Shelf Tools for Toponym Identification in German 1-11
  Brielen Madureira, Mariana Madruga de Brito, Andreas Niekler
- Automatic Construction of a Geo-Historical Knowledge Graph from Early Modern Encyclopedic Texts 12-21
  Bin Yang, Ludovic Moncla, Fabien Duchateau, Frédérique Laforest
- Determinants of Geographic Information Quality in Large Language Models: Effects of Model Family, Scale, Language, Quantization, and Fine-tuning 22-31
  Rémy Decoupes, Adrien Guille
- Evaluating Large Vision-Language Models on Geographic Language Understanding 32-45
  Ruoyao Wang, Egoitz Laparra, Steven Bethard
- Extracting and Aggregating Hierarchical Toponyms in Abstracts of Scientific Articles in Urban Studies 46-51
  Tianye Ren, Nan Bai, Ana Pereira Roders
- Multilingual Synthetic Corpora for Geoparsing Using Large Language Models 52-61
  Ilya Ilyankou, Franz Welscher, Paddy Smith, Tatu Leppämäki
- Spatiotemporal Inference of Landslide Events by Fusing Geographic Features and Social Media Information 62-68
  Bing Xu, Alexander Brenning
- Geoparsing of Spatial Coordinates in Brazilian Land Tenure Documents with Deep Learning 69-74
  Taís Pereira, Mauro Alixandrini, Jorge Pedreira Junior, Vivian Fernandes
- EndoLink: A Knowledge Graph-Based Platform for Crowdsourced Endonym and Place Name Collection 75-82
  Janine Laura Hindermann, Sina Ahmadi
- Towards Spatially Grounded and Multilingual Event Relation Extraction 83-88
  Jan Bongard, Xuke Hu, Jens Kersten, Alexander Brenning, Friederike Klan
- A Hybrid Annotation Method and A Reference Corpus for Hiking Descriptions 89-98
  Abdelkrim Tafer, Mauro Gaio, Javier Lacasta
- Using LLMs for News: Understanding the Geographic Coverage of News Generated by LLMs 99-103
  Anagani BhanuSree, Vissamsetty Saidivya, Rimjhim, K Venkatakrishna Rao

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