Using Virtual Meeting Structure to Support Summarisation

Antonios G. Nanos, Anne E. James, Rahat Iqbal, Yih Ling Hedley

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    Abstract

    Archiving meeting transcripts in databases is not always efficient. Users need to be able to catch up with past meetings quickly, and therefore it is non-productive to read the full meeting transcript from scratch. A summarisation of the meeting transcript is preferable but the lack of meeting structure may lead to missing information. Therefore, we have introduced a virtual meeting system that is characterised by features that provide the meeting session with structure and a summarisation system that applies a TextRank approach on the structured meeting transcripts. The agenda with timed items guides the conversation. Thus the item delineation and title can be considered as the key characteristics of a valuable summary. Results show that combining an extraction summarisation technique with meeting structure leads to a relevant summary.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationData Science - 30th British International Conference on Databases, BICOD 2015, Proceedings
    PublisherSpringer Verlag
    Pages133-136
    Number of pages4
    Volume9147
    ISBN (Electronic)9783319204239
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2015
    Event30th British International Conference on Databases - Edinburgh, United Kingdom
    Duration: 6 Jul 20158 Jul 2015

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume9147
    ISSN (Print)03029743
    ISSN (Electronic)16113349

    Conference

    Conference30th British International Conference on Databases
    Abbreviated titleBICOD 2015
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    CityEdinburgh
    Period6/07/158/07/15

    Keywords

    • Automatic summarisation
    • Data model
    • Virtual meeting

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Computer Science
    • Theoretical Computer Science

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