3 papers
cs.CL2026
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…
cs.CL2026
VotIE: Information Extraction from Meeting Minutes
José Pedro Evans, LuÃs 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…
cs.CL2026
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…