Extraction methods of e-mail discussion processes considering diversity of description granularity and their complicated relationships

Discussion using e-mail is frequently conducted in intelligent works such as research activity. It is important but generally difficult to successfully grasp the processes of the discussions and their results. There exist descriptions of diverse particle sizes in actual discussion using e-mail. This feature brings about the difficulty in grasping the discussion processes in addition to basic features such as increase of number of e-mails. Although there have been some research projects which aim at extraction of discussion processes, these existing methods have not consider the diversity of description granularity. This research has aimed to develop a support system for extracting discussion processes and their visualization. This paper mainly describes methods for extracting the discussion processes considering the diversity of description granularity and complicated connections between them. This paper also describes the overview of target service and the outline of support system.