Topic-to-Timestamp Alignment by Constrained Evidence Selection
A new method improves topic-to-timestamp alignment in meeting transcripts by selecting timestamped evidence instead of generating timecodes. On 420 queries from municipal meeting transcripts, it boosts Recall@5 to 50.0%, reduces MAE to 761.0 seconds, and increases parseable outputs from 373 to 419, showing that retrieval quality and output design are critical.