@inproceedings{lima-etal-2026-balancing,
    title = "Balancing Coherence and Granularity in Legal Topic Modeling: A {BERT}opic-based Study on {P}ortuguese Appellate Court Decisions",
    author = "Lima, Marjory S. S.  and
      Ahad, Felipe R.  and
      Silva, Vih A. S.  and
      Ventura, Thiago M.  and
      Figueiredo, Josiel M.  and
      de Oliveira, Allan G.",
    editor = "Barbosa, Bryan Khelven da Silva  and
      Paes, Aline  and
      Felippo, Ariani Di",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 17th {B}razilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Cuiab{\'a}, Mato Grosso, Brazil",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.stil-1.19/",
    doi = "10.5753/stil.2026.26502",
    pages = "218--230"
}