7 papers
CitiLink-Minutes: A Multilayer Annotated Dataset of Municipal Meeting Minutes
Ricardo Campos, Ana Filipa Pacheco, Ana LuÃsa Fernandes +13
City councils play a crucial role in local governance, directly influencing citizens' daily lives through decisions made during municipal meetings. These deliberations are formally…
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…
CitiLink-Summ: Summarization of Discussion Subjects in European Portuguese Municipal Meeting Minutes
Miguel Marques, Ana LuÃsa 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, 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…