Electronic meeting question management

A method comprising:

• presenting multimedia content to at least one user and, during presentation of the multimedia content, monitoring for questions presented by the user;
• responsive to detecting a question presented by the user, identifying a core concept of the question;
• responsive to identifying the core concept of the question, analyzing the multimedia content to determine, based on the core concept of the question, whether the multimedia content contains at least one possible answer to the question;
• responsive to determining that the multimedia content contains at least one possible answer to the question, assigning, using a processor, a confidence score to at least one segment of the multimedia content that covers the at least one possible answer, the confidence score assigned to the segment of the multimedia content indicating a probability that the segment of the multimedia content answers the question presented by the user;
• based on the confidence score assigned to segment of the multimedia content, selecting the segment of the multimedia content;
• and
• based on the selected segment of the multimedia content, automatically generating an answer to the question presented by the user and presenting the automatically generated answer to the user.

A system, comprising:

• a processor programmed to initiate executable operations comprising:
• presenting multimedia content to at least one user and, during presentation of the multimedia content, monitoring for questions presented by the user;
• responsive to detecting a question presented by the user, identifying a core concept of the question;
• responsive to identifying the core concept of the question, analyzing the multimedia content to determine, based on the core concept of the question, whether the multimedia content contains at least one possible answer to the question;
• responsive to determining that the multimedia content contains at least one possible answer to the question, assigning a confidence score to at least one segment of the multimedia content that covers the at least one possible answer, the confidence score assigned to the segment of the multimedia content indicating a probability that the segment of the multimedia content answers the question presented by the user;
• based on the confidence score assigned to segment of the multimedia content, selecting the segment of the multimedia content;
• and
• based on the selected segment of the multimedia content, automatically generating an answer to the question presented by the user and presenting the automatically generated answer to the user.

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code stored thereon, the program code executable by a processor to perform a method comprising:

• presenting, by the processor, multimedia content to at least one user and, during presentation of the multimedia content, monitoring for questions presented by the user;
• responsive to detecting a question presented by the user, identifying, by the processor, a core concept of the question;
• responsive to identifying the core concept of the question, analyzing, by the processor, the multimedia content to determine, based on the core concept of the question, whether the multimedia content contains at least one possible answer to the question;
• responsive to determining that the multimedia content contains at least one possible answer to the question, assigning, by the processor, a confidence score to at least one segment of the multimedia content that covers the at least one possible answer, the confidence score assigned to the segment of the multimedia content indicating a probability that the segment of the multimedia content answers the question presented by the user;
• based on the confidence score assigned to segment of the multimedia content, selecting, by the processor, the segment of the multimedia content;
• and
• based on the selected segment of the multimedia content, automatically generating, by the processor, an answer to the question presented by the user and presenting the automatically generated answer to the user.