Abstract
Many meetings of different kinds will potentially benefit from technological support like automatic creation of meeting minutes. To prepare a reasonable automation, we need to have a detailed understanding of common types of meetings, of the linguistic properties and commonalities in the structure of meeting minutes, as well as of methods for their automation.
In this paper, we summarize the quality criteria and linguistic properties of meeting minutes, describe the available meeting corpora and meeting datasets and propose a classification of meetings and minutes types. Furthermore, we analyze the methods and tools for automatic minuting with respect to their use with existing types of datasets.
We summarize the obtained knowledge with respect to our goal of designing automatic minuting and present our first steps in this direction.