I am planning to attend this workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, which is part of the SIGIR this year in Seattle.
This is the list of the accepted papers. I am looking forward to read them (top rank in bold 🙂 ).

1. Relevance Ranking for Geographic IR
   Leonardo Andrade and Mário J. Silva
   Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
2. Inferring Geographical Ontologies from Multiple Resources for Geographical Information Retrieval
   Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso and Piedachu Peris Garcia
   Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
3. A Location Data Annotation System for Personal Photograph Collections: Evaluation of a Searching and Browsing Tool
   Chufeng Chen, Michael Oakes and John Tait
   University of Sunderland
4. Retrieval of Similar Travel Routes Using GPS Tracklog Place Names
   Aiden R. Doherty, Cathal Gurrin, Gareth J. F. Jones and Alan F. Smeaton
   Dublin City University
5. GeoSphereSearch: Context-Aware Geographic Web Search
   Jens Graupmann and Ralf Schenkel
   Max Planck Institut für Informatik
6. Geomodification in Query Rewriting
   Vivian Wei Zhang, Benjamin Rey, Eugene Stipp and Rosie Jones
   Yahoo! Research
7. Associating spatial patterns to text-units for summarizing geographic information
   Julien Lesbegueries, Christian Sallaberry and Mauro Gaio
   Université des Pays de l’Adour
8. On metonymy recognition for geographic IR
   Johannes Leveling and Sven Hartrumpf
   Fern Universität in Hagen
9. Handling Locations in Search Engine Queries
   Bruno Martins, Mário J. Silva, Sérgio Freitas and Ana Paula Afonso
   Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
10. Identifying and grounding descriptions of places
    Simon E Overell and Stefan Rüger
    Imperial College London
11. The place of place in geographical IR
    Diana Santos(1) and Marcirio Silveira Chaves(2)
    (1)SINTEF ICT, (2)Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
12. Towards Fuzzy Spatial Reasoning in Geographic IR Systems
    Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock and Etienne E. Kerre
    Ghent University
13. Range-capable Distributed Hash Tables
    Alessandro Soro and Cristian Lai
    CRS4
14. Exploring Probabilistic Toponym Resolution for Geographical Information Retrieval
    Yi Li, Alistair Moffat, Nicola Stokes and Lawrence Cavedon
    The University of Melbourne
15. Indexing implicit locations for geographical information retrieval
    Zhisheng Li(1), Chong Wang(2), Xing Xie(2), Xufa Wang(1) and Wei-Ying Ma(2)
    (1)University of Sci. & Tech. of China, (2)Microsoft Research Asia
16. Detecting Geographical Serving Area of Web Resources
    Qi Zhang(1), Xing Xie(2), Lee Wang(2), Lihua Yue(1) and Wei-Ying Ma(2)
    (1)University of Sci. & Tech. of China, (2)Microsoft Research Asia