Special Session
Special Session on
Agentic AI for Spatio-Temporal Information Extraction and Reasoning -
SAIS
2026
28 - 30 October, 2026 - Angers, France
Within the 18th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - IJCCI 2026
CO-CHAIRS
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Hristo Tanev
Joint Research Centre, Data Intelligence for Policy Unit, European Commission
Italy
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Short Bio
I am a researcher in Natural Language Processing at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), where I work on NLP, text mining, and web mining methods to extract and analyse socio-political events and other signals from online sources. My work combines symbolic, linguistic, and machine-learning approaches to event extraction for crisis monitoring and socio-political analysis. I hold a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and carried out postdoctoral research on multilingual question answering at FBK in Trento. I serve on the organising committee of the Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA) workshop series, formerly CASE, on the automated extraction of socio-political events. I am also a member of the editorial board of Natural Language Processing at Cambridge University Press and of the advisory board of the John Benjamins Natural Language Processing book series. I was also part of the early organising team of the Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing (BSNLP) workshop series. My research interests include event extraction, information extraction, and the use of online text for policy-relevant analysis.
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Milena Slavcheva
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Bulgaria
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Bertrand De Longueville
Joint Research Centre, European Commission
Italy
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SCOPE
We aim to bring together research on spatio-temporal grounding and extraction of events, entities, and sentiments from textual sources; the tracking of physical and abstract phenomena across time and space; the construction of event and entity relations, graphs, and timelines; and the spatio-temporal inference of implicitly mentioned locations and time periods.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission:
September 1, 2026
Authors Notification:
September 9, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration:
September 18, 2026
SPECIAL SESSION PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Available soon.
PAPER SUBMISSION
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: Paper Templates
Please also check the Guidelines.
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PUBLICATIONS
After thorough reviewing by the special session program committee, all accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book - under an ISBN reference - and abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, INSPEC, Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST), Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus and zbMATH. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings.