| Challenge: | During a discussion, participants might adjust their own opinions and tune their attitudes towards others’ opinions based on the unfolding interactions. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-party meeting opinion mining system that visualizes real-time opinion extraction and group dynamics using bipartite graphs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system extracts opinions from speech and visualizes an influence factor for each participant using current and previous utterances in real time. |
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