These proceedings contain the contributed papers for the Eighth International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story2025) held in conjunction with the ECIR 2025 conference in Lucca, Italy, on the 10th of April 2025. Twenty six papers were submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, twenty papers were accepted for this volume, 14 as regular papers, and 6 in the category of Work in Progress, Demos and Dissemination. Each submitted paper was reviewed by three members of an international programme committee. In addition to the selected papers, the workshop features Sara Tonelli as invited speaker, giving a talk entitled “Revisiting frames for event extraction in the Digital Humanities.” We would like to thank ECIR for hosting us, our keynote speaker, the programme committee, the paper authors, and the participants, who have made this workshop possible. Editors Ricardo Campos and Alípio Jorge were financed by National Funds through the FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) within the project (LA/P/0063/2020). They would also like to acknowledge the project StorySense, with reference (2022.09312.PTDC).
Editors Web and Dissemination Chair Hugo Sousa (INESC TEC) Behrooz Mansouri (University of Southern Maine)