5 papers
Progressing beyond Art Masterpieces or Touristic Clichés: how to assess your LLMs for cultural alignment?
António Branco, João Silva, Nuno Marques +10
Although the cultural (mis)alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) has attracted increasing attention -- often framed in terms of cultural bias -- until recently there has been l…
Which -by-s are CAT(0)?
Leo Delage
In this note we point out a mistake in theorem 4.4 of [Sam06], which states that a semidirect product whose defining automorphism is unipotent-polynomi…
CitiLink-Summ: Summarization of Discussion Subjects in European Portuguese Municipal Meeting Minutes
Miguel Marques, Ana Luísa Fernandes, Ana Filipa Pacheco +10
Municipal meeting minutes are formal records documenting the discussions and decisions of local government, yet their content is often lengthy, dense, and difficult for citizens to…
NLP for Local Governance Meeting Records: A Focus Article on Tasks, Datasets, Metrics and Benchmark
Ricardo Campos, José Pedro Evans, José Miguel Isidro +5
Local governance meeting records are official documents, in the form of minutes or transcripts, documenting how proposals, discussions, and procedural actions unfold during institu…
CitiLink: Enhancing Municipal Transparency and Citizen Engagement through Searchable Meeting Minutes
Rodrigo Silva, José Evans, José Isidro +10
City council minutes are typically lengthy and formal documents with a bureaucratic writing style. Although publicly available, their structure often makes it difficult for citizen…