Agent Based Ontology Driven Virtual Meeting Assistant

2017 IEEE 21st International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD)

Iqbal

et al. 2017

Organisations now frequently rely on virtual collaboration through the use of computer technology. After a sequence of meetings, participants may only need to refer to the most important points rather than the whole meeting proceedings. This paper addresses the need for automated meeting summarisation in virtual meeting systems.An extraction approach to summarisation is adopted and a new algorithm is proposed by extending the TextRank algorithm to include constructs representing the structure of the meeting. This helps extract the most relevant sentences from the meeting transcript. The proposed method was evaluated in the context of student-tutor meetings. Results show that harnessing and utilising the structure of a virtual meeting can lead to more relevant automated summaries.

“…In-meeting support has been considered by Thompson, James and Stanciu [11]. A software agent was developed to assist the human facilitator of the meeting.…”

Section: In-meeting Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Content summarisation of conversation in the context of virtual meetings: An enhanced TextRank approach

2017 IEEE 21st International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD)

Iqbal

et al. 2017

“…V-ROOM has been developed and evaluated in stages. Initially an agent based system was developed to test novel architecture and communication concepts (Thompson, James and Stanciu 2010). Then a focus group was established to determine the features that a virtual meeting system should include (Thompson, James and Iqbal 2011).…”

Section: Development Of V-roommentioning

confidence: 99%

V-ROOM: a virtual meeting system with intelligent structured summarisation

Enterprise Information Systems

Thompson

2015

With the growth of virtual organisations and multinational companies, virtual collaboration tasks are becoming more important for employees. This paper describes the development of a virtual meeting system, called V-ROOM. An exploration of facilities required in such a system has been conducted. The findings highlighted that intelligent systems are needed, especially since information that individuals have to know and process, is vast. The survey results showed that meeting summarisation is one of the most important new features that should be added to virtual meeting systems for enterprises. This paper highlights the innovative methods employed in V-ROOM to produce relevant meeting summaries. V-ROOM's approach is compared to other methods from the literature and it is shown how the use of meta-data provided by parts of the V-ROOM system can improve the quality of summaries produced.

“…Together with findings from literature search and observations, these requirements indicated the features and facilities that a virtual meeting system should provide [8,9]. A software prototype was developed from the draft requirements.…”

Section: Related Work and Innovative Featuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Virtual meeting systems able to capture and address such issues would be a welcome contribution to the field. This paper, building on the work of previous papers by the authors [7,8,9], describes the development, implementation, trialling and evaluation of a prototype virtual meeting system, V-ROOM, the requirements of which were influenced by a focus group investigation presented in the last of those papers. The requirements include a number of meeting support concepts that are not available in current meeting systems.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

V-ROOM: Virtual meeting system trial

Thompson

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD)

2013

Self Cite

Virtual meeting environments are providing a viable alternative for conventional meetings bringing benefits of reduced costs and better use of time by removing the need for attendees to travel to national, international or global locations in order to attend meetings. This paper builds on the work of previous papers which discussed the functional and technical requirements for a virtual meeting system, reporting on a user trial and evaluating the prototype system. The trial was performed by students as users deploying the prototype for collaboration in group work focussed on the design of a computer system as part of the final year of their undergraduate study. The users were asked to comment on the features of the prototype as well as offering suggestions on useful features that should be included in a virtual meeting system. A summary of their comments and suggestions and the results of the evaluation are included in the paper. Security aspects of virtual meeting systems are also considered in some detail.