JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 13(2): 177-185, doi: 10.3217/jucs-013-02-0177
Analysis of Conversation Quanta for Conversational Knowledge Circulation
expand article infoKen Saito‡, Hidekazu Kubota‡, Yasuyuki Sumi‡, Toyoaki Nishida‡
‡ Kyoto University, Japan

Corresponding author: Ken Saito ( saitoh@ii.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp )

© Ken Saito, Hidekazu Kubota, Yasuyuki Sumi, Toyoaki Nishida.
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Citation: Saito K, Kubota H, Sumi Y, Nishida T (2007) Analysis of Conversation Quanta for Conversational Knowledge Circulation. JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 13(2): 177-185. https://doi.org/10.3217/jucs-013-02-0177
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Abstract
In this paper, we present a computational approach to understanding and augmenting the conversational knowledge process. We introduce the concept of the conversation quantization, a technique of approximating a continuous flow of conversation by a series of conversation quanta that represent points of the discourse. To investigate what the nature of conversation quanta is, we attempt to extract conversation quanta from two types of the meeting videos by hand. As a result, we have obtained some profitable suggestions about conversation quanta.
Keywords
conversation, knowledge acquisition, conversation quantization