Elaboration Context Graph: A System to Support Understanding the Contexts in Elaboration Processes of Research Documents

Elaborating research documents is carried out by repeatedly creating and editing documents while simultaneously performing tasks such as surveys, presentation of results, and discussion of research directions. Although indispensable for advancing research, such work is often challenging because it requires handling diverse documents. Effective execution therefore demands an accurate understanding of the elaboration contexts of research documents, including related artifacts, referenced documents, and the circumstances and history of past tasks, so that these can be applied in subsequent work. However, these contexts grow increasingly large and complex as research progresses, making them difficult to grasp and reducing task efficiency. This paper describes a method for generating an elaboration context graph by organizing documents involved in the elaboration process using work history data recorded on a PC. The graph visually represents the documents, screenshots capturing work scenes, and the relationships among them, thereby supporting the understanding of elaboration contexts. We further describe a system developed on the basis of this method. Finally, we report an experiment conducted with the prototype and discuss the system’s effectiveness.

@article{Onami2025,
  title     = {Elaboration Context Graph: A System to Support Understanding the Contexts in Elaboration Processes of Research Documents},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {16},
  number    = {12},
  year      = {2025},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {Sho Onami and Ryo Onuma and Hiroki Nakayama and Hiroaki Kaminaga and Youzou Miyadera and Shoichi Nakamura},
  doi       = {10.14569/IJACSA.2025.0161253},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2025.0161253}
}