Temporal Mining of Artefacts Producing Meetings
Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, Saturnino F. Luz · 2006
Abstract. Identifying salient parts of time-based media in multimodal meeting recordings is particularly challenging, as they often contain im-portant information which can not be easily visualised (audio) or sum-marised. In an online artefact producing meeting scenario, certain self-contained information items are likely to be regularly manipulated. By capturing and timestamping participants ’ space-based interactions with these items, one can define semantic objects with persisting histories. This information which is usually lost in common multimodal meeting settings offers new possibilities for meeting mining. Potential links be-tween semantic objects, while not necessary obvious when looking at a meeting’s outcome can be uncovered by investigating temporal relation-ships between objects. Space-based actions also generally have strong associated semantics and are therefore appropriate for quick visual scan-ning. Drawing from our experience with the development of an integrated online collaborative writing environment with structured activity logging and post-meeting browsing system, we present a generic time-based arte-fact history model and novel time-based data mining paradigms for min-ing information from artefacts producing meetings. A prototype meeting browser, Meeting Miner is presented. 1