Citilink-XLMR-large-Metadata-en-baseline is a baseline implementation, consisting of a fine-tuned BERT model for Named Entity Recognition (NER), to automatically extract metadata such as meeting number, date, location, participants, and time expressions from English municipal meeting minutes.
It was developed as part of a study on information extraction and indexing of administrative documents.

Key Features

🏛️ Domain-Specific: Trained exclusively on authentic municipal meeting minutes (translated to English)
🧠 Entity-Level Extraction: Identifies key metadata (minute ID, date, location, start/end times, participants)
⚙️ Transformer-based Architecture: XLM-RoBERTa backbone with fine-tuning for token classification
📈 Strong NER Performance: Achieves F1-score above 0.95 on the English dataset

Model Details

Base Model: xlm-roberta-large
Architecture: BERT for token classification (NER)
Parameters: ~335M
- 24 transformer layers
- 1024 hidden dimensions
- 16 attention heads
- 4096 intermediate size
Max Sequence Length: 512 tokens
Learning Rate: 5e-5
Warmup: 0.1
Batch Size: 16
Optimizer: AdamW
Weight Decay: 0.01
Entity Types: minute_id, date, meeting_type, location, begin_time, end_time, participant
Training Framework: PyTorch + Hugging Face Transformers
Evaluation Metric: Micro F1-score, Precision and Recall (seqeval)

How It Works

The model assigns a label to each token in the input sequence, using the BIO scheme (Begin–Inside–Outside).
It can recognize and extract structured metadata from free-form text, even when expressed with stylistic variation.

python

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForTokenClassification
import torch

# Load model and tokenizer
MODEL_NAME = "inesctec/Citilink-XLMR-large-Metadata-en-baseline"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(MODEL_NAME)
model = AutoModelForTokenClassification.from_pretrained(MODEL_NAME)
model.eval()

# Example text
text = "MINUTES NO. 2 – Mandate 2021-2025\nEXTRAORDINARY MEETING 10/22/2021\nMUNICIPALITY OF ALANDROAL\nMr. João Maria Aranha Grilo, Mayor of Alandroal, presided.\nCouncillors João Carlos Camões Roma Balsante\nPaulo Jorge da Silva Gonçalves\nFernanda Manuela Brites Romão\nJosé Francisco Figueira Andrezo Rodrigues\nHe was the secretary of the meeting ************************************************\nIn the Headquarters Building of the Municipality of Alandroal, the Mayor, João Maria Aranha Grilo, declared the meeting open, it was 2.15 pm. \n \n1. REQUEST FOR SCHEDULING AN EXTRAORDINARY MEETING OF THE MUNICIPAL ASSEMBLY.\n"

# Tokenize with offset mapping
inputs = tokenizer(
    text,
    return_tensors="en",
    truncation=True,
    max_length=512,
    return_offsets_mapping=True
)
offsets = inputs.pop("offset_mapping")[0]

# Predict
with torch.no_grad():
    outputs = model(**inputs)

predictions = torch.argmax(outputs.logits, dim=2)[0]
labels = [model.config.id2label[p.item()] for p in predictions]

# Extract entities using character spans
entities = []
current = None

for (start, end), label in zip(offsets.tolist(), labels):
    if label == "O" or start == end:
        if current:
            entities.append(current)
            current = None
        continue

    if label.startswith("B-"):
        if current:
            entities.append(current)
        current = {"label": label[2:], "start": start, "end": end}
    elif label.startswith("I-") and current and label[2:] == current["label"]:
        current["end"] = end
    else:
        if current:
            entities.append(current)
        current = None

if current:
    entities.append(current)

# Print results
print("\nDetected Entities:")
for ent in entities:
    span = text[ent["start"]:ent["end"]]
    print(f"- {ent['label']}: {span}")

Evaluation Results

Municipal Meeting Minutes Test Set

Metric	Score
F1 score	0.94
Precision	0.94
Recall	0.94

Limitations

Domain Specificity: Best performance on administrative/governmental meeting minutes
Language: Optimized for English; Portuguese performance may vary
Context Window: Limited to 512 tokens

License

This project uses a custom dual-license based on AGPL v3.

See the full license terms here: LICENSE

inesctec/CitiLink-XLMR-large-Metadata-en-baseline

Citilink-XLMR-large-Metadata-en-baseline: Metadata Extraction for Municipal Meeting Minutes

Model Description