Meeting Decision Tracker: Making Meeting Minutes with De-Contextualized Utterances

TL;DR

This paper introduces Meeting Decision Tracker, a system that automatically identifies and refines decision-related utterances in meetings to improve decision tracking and user experience.

Contribution

It presents a novel system with decision utterance detector and rewriter components, enhancing automatic decision itemization in meeting transcripts.

Findings

DUR improves user experience by handling utterance collapse

System effectively identifies decision utterances in meetings

Introduction video demonstrates system capabilities

Abstract

Meetings are a universal process to make decisions in business and project collaboration. The capability to automatically itemize the decisions in daily meetings allows for extensive tracking of past discussions. To that end, we developed Meeting Decision Tracker, a prototype system to construct decision items comprising decision utterance detector (DUD) and decision utterance rewriter (DUR). We show that DUR makes a sizable contribution to improving the user experience by dealing with utterance collapse in natural conversation. An introduction video of our system is also available at https://youtu.be/TG1pJJo0Iqo.