9 papers
Looking for the Bottleneck in Fine-grained Temporal Relation Classification
Hugo Sousa, Ricardo Campos, Alípio Jorge
Temporal relation classification is the task of determining the temporal relation between pairs of temporal entities in a text. Despite recent advancements in natural language proc…
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…
Estimation of reliability and accuracy of models of -sub-Gaussian process using generating functions of polynomial expansions
Oleksandr Mokliachuk
Stochastic processes are often represented through orthonormal series expansions, a framework originating in the classical works of Loève and Karhunen and widely used for simulatio…
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…
SegNSP: Revisiting Next Sentence Prediction for Linear Text Segmentation
José Isidro, Filipe Cunha, Purificação Silvano +4
Linear text segmentation is a long-standing problem in natural language processing (NLP), focused on dividing continuous text into coherent and semantically meaningful units. Despi…
VotIE: Information Extraction from Meeting Minutes
José Pedro Evans, Luís Filipe Cunha, Purificação Silvano +4
Municipal meeting minutes record key decisions in local democratic processes. Unlike parliamentary proceedings, which typically adhere to standardized formats, they encode voting o…
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…
ClaimPT: A Portuguese Dataset of Annotated Claims in News Articles
Ricardo Campos, Raquel Sequeira, Sara Nerea +9
Fact-checking remains a demanding and time-consuming task, still largely dependent on manual verification and unable to match the rapid spread of misinformation online. This is par…
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…