hallucination-prevention

Evidence-Linked Meeting Minutes: Structured Extraction with Mandatory Citation Chains

Every decision must cite its source — how MARIA Meeting AI eliminates hallucinated minutes through segment-level evidence linking

Traditional meeting minutes suffer from a fundamental trust problem: the reader cannot verify whether a recorded decision actually occurred in the meeting or was interpolated by the note-taker. MARIA Meeting AI solves this by enforcing mandatory evidence linking — every decision, action item, and summary section must reference specific transcript segments as evidence. This paper formalizes the evidence-linking constraint, presents the incremental summarization algorithm that generates minutes every 15 seconds during live meetings, and proves that the citation coverage metric converges to completeness as transcript length increases. In evaluated Japanese business meetings, the system achieved 94% citation coverage with zero hallucinated decisions.