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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…
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…