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.
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. 5. The computer program product of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are to cause the processor to, when searching records accessible to a participant tier by tier, after finding an explanation within a first tier, continue searching that tier for additional explanations, without proceeding to a next most relevant tier, and present multiple preferred explanations for the communication derived from that first tier.