Participants’ personal note‐taking in meetings and its value for automatic meeting summarisation

This paper reports the results of novel quantitative research on multiple people’s personal note‐taking in meetings with the long‐term aim of aiding the creation of innovative meeting understanding applications. We present three experiments using a large number of group meetings taken from the Augmented Multi‐party Interaction meeting corpus. Statistical techniques were employed for this work. Our findings suggest that temporal note‐taking overlap information and the semantic content of the written private notes taken by many meeting participants both point to the majority of the most informative meeting events. Thus, the characteristics of note‐taking can be seen as a contributing feature for new automatic meeting summarisation approaches and for the development of future meeting browser environments that better support the needs of individuals and organisations.