CitiLink-Minutes: A Multilayer Annotated Dataset of Municipal Meeting Minutes
Ricardo Campos, Ana Filipa Pacheco, Ana Lu\'isa Fernandes, In\^es Cantante, Rute Rebou\c{c}as, Lu\'is Filipe Cunha, Jos\'e Miguel Isidro, Jos\'e Pedro Evans, Miguel Marques, Rodrigo Batista, Evelin Amorim, Al\'ipio Jorge, Nuno Guimar\~aes, S\'ergio Nunes, Ant\'onio Leal

TL;DR
CitiLink-Minutes is a comprehensive, multilayer annotated dataset of European Portuguese municipal meeting minutes designed to advance NLP and IR research on local governance records.
Contribution
It introduces a novel multilayer annotated dataset with over one million tokens, structured linkages, and detailed annotations for municipal meeting minutes, filling a significant gap in available resources.
Findings
Dataset contains over 38,000 annotations across three dimensions.
Baseline models show promising results in metadata extraction and topic classification.
The dataset promotes transparency and research in local governance NLP tasks.
Abstract
City councils play a crucial role in local governance, directly influencing citizens' daily lives through decisions made during municipal meetings. These deliberations are formally documented in meeting minutes, which serve as official records of discussions, decisions, and voting outcomes. Despite their importance, municipal meeting records have received little attention in Information Retrieval (IR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), largely due to the lack of annotated datasets, which ultimately limit the development of computational models. To address this gap, we introduce CitiLink-Minutes, a multilayer dataset of 120 European Portuguese municipal meeting minutes from six municipalities. Unlike prior annotated datasets of parliamentary or video records, CitiLink-Minutes provides multilayer annotations and structured linkage of official written minutes. The dataset contains over…
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