Abstract
We take great pleasure in welcoming you to the eighth Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR'14). The GIR workshops have been running since 2004 and this is now the second time that the workshop has been hosted by ACM SIGSPATIAL. Previously it has been hosted by ACM SIGIR and ACM CIKM, as well as having been a stand-alone event in cooperation with ACM SIGSPATIAL. This association with both Information Retrieval and GIScience conferences accords with the essentially interdisciplinary nature of the GIR workshop. Once again however the proceedings will be archived in the ACM Digital Library, continuing the development of a valuable resource for all of those involved in research in this area. The call for papers this year resulted in a good variety of submissions covering topics that range across many aspects of geographic information retrieval. These included toponym usage and resolution, detection of spatial relations, extraction of itineraries and types of events, gazetteer construction, evaluation and keyword search. As was noted last year, there is recurrent theme of working with social media that appears in several of the papers.
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