The workshop invites contributions on the following topics, and other research related to GIR:

• Detection, disambiguation and geocoding of geographical references in text;

• User needs for geographic search;

• Classification of web documents and of social media with regard to their geographic foci;

• Interpretation of spatial natural language in documents and queries;

• Extraction of geographically-specific facts and events from text documents and social media;

• Spatial and spatio-temporal indexing of documents and other media objects;

• Modelling, construction and integration of ontologies, gazetteers and geographic thesauri;

• Reasoning with geo-spatial facts for purposes of information retrieval;

• Geographical query interfaces for search on the web;

• Geographic question / answering systems;

• Geographic search engine architectures;

• Relevance ranking of geographical information;

• Evaluation methods for geographic search.

• Applications of GIR in fields such as GIScience and the digital humanities.