| Challenge: | a lack of annotated meeting corpora hinders the development of meeting summarization technology. |
| Approach: | They present a new benchmark dataset of city council meetings over the past decade . they use a divide-and-conquer approach to divide professionally written minutes into shorter passages . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset provides a testbed for various meeting summarization systems and allows the public to gain insight into how council decisions are made. |
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