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Title: Improving meeting summarization by focusing on user needs: a task-oriented evaluation
Authors: Pei-Yun Hsueh, Johanna D. Moore
Presentation Venue: IUI 2009: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces; February 8-11, 2009; Sanibel Island, Florida, USA
Summary
The researchers discuss two types of summaries. The first provides a general summary of the meeting and is the type of summary produced by current. The second provides a more decision-focused summary that is shorter than the general summary.
The researchers performed a study in which they provided participants with four meetings through a Meeting Browser Interface. They asked the participants to summarize the decisions made in the meetings. Participants were randomly assigned one of four summary displays that were embedded into the browser interface that presented different information about the meeting.
The researchers found that displaying decision-focused summaries were more effective and helped users get a better overview of the meeting. However, it was found that decision-focused summaries written manually were still more effective than the ones generated by the algorithm.
Discussion
I think this research could be very useful for people who miss meetings or want to review meetings after they have occurred. Future studies suggests that the researchers will focus on further improving the algorithm and run more experiments on meetings that are more and less structured to better identify the strengths and weaknesses in their current algorithm.
In this paper, the authors discuss a method of improving the summarization of meetings.
Much work on meeting browsers and search structures have been done that allow people to search for a specific part of the meeting, but often the most important part of the meeting is a decision that is made.
The researchers performed a study in which they provided participants with four meetings through a Meeting Browser Interface. They asked the participants to summarize the decisions made in the meetings. Participants were randomly assigned one of four summary displays that were embedded into the browser interface that presented different information about the meeting.
The researchers found that displaying decision-focused summaries were more effective and helped users get a better overview of the meeting. However, it was found that decision-focused summaries written manually were still more effective than the ones generated by the algorithm.
Discussion
I think this research could be very useful for people who miss meetings or want to review meetings after they have occurred. Future studies suggests that the researchers will focus on further improving the algorithm and run more experiments on meetings that are more and less structured to better identify the strengths and weaknesses in their current algorithm.
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