6. The computer program product of claim 1 , wherein the associated tiers are selected from a set of tiers 1 through tier N, with tier 1 being most relevant and tier N being least relevant to the meeting, and wherein the tiers 1 through N include, in order of relevance to the meeting, a first tier describing records directly related to the meeting or the subject of the meeting, a second tier describing records stored in a memory dedicated to use by a first participant, and a third tier describing records accessible to a group that includes the participants.
1. A computer program product embodied as instructions stored in a non-transitory computer readable medium that when executed by a processor cause the processor to: obtain data indicative of a word or phrase communicated during a meeting including a plurality of participants; for each participant, identify records electronically accessible to the participant, and associate each record with a tier from a hierarchy of record-relevancy tiers, wherein each tier is indicative of a relevance to the meeting; identify a set of explanations for the communication and associated scores, including for each participant, beginning with a most relevant tier, search the records accessible to the participant tier by tier until an explanation is identified, and responsive to identification of the explanation assign a score to the explanation according to the tier associated with the record in which the explanation is found; and determine a preferred explanation for the communication based upon the scores, and to cause a display of the preferred explanation.