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Analysis of Conversation Quanta for Conversational Knowledge Circulation Ken Saito (Dept. of Intelligence Science and Technology, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan saitoh@ii.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp) Hidekazu Kubota (Dept. of Intelligence Science and Technology, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan kubota@ii.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp) Yasuyuki Sumi (Dept. of Intelligence Science and Technology, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan sumi@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp) Toyoaki Nishida (Dept. of Intelligence Science and Technology, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan nishida@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp) 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, knowledge circulation, conversation quantization Categories: H.3.1, H.3.3, H.5.1 1 Introduction The conversation is our primary method to communicate with each other. A lot of useful knowledge occurs in the conversation in the real world, however it almost fades away without the support of intelligent media technologies. In this paper, we present a computational approach to understand and augment the conversational knowledge process that is a collective activity for knowledge creation, management, and application where conversational communications are used as a primary means of interaction among participating agents. The key idea is conversation quantization, a Journal of Univer