TR-M-0003 :1996.2.21

西本一志

Effectively-Heterogeneous Information Extraction Toward An Outsider Agent for Supporting A Brainstorming Session

Abstract:Conflicts in different concepts are often useful in creating new ideas. Therefore, an outsider's attendance to a brainstorming session is often effective for obtaining a brainwave. Our research goal is to construct an artificial outsider agent. As the first step to the goal, we proposed an outsider model as an information retrieval model for obtaining "effectively-heterogeneous" information, i.e., information having not only evident relevance but also hidden relevance for users and constructed a prototype system. Subjective experiments using the prototype system and a detailed analysis on results confirming that the outsider model can extract information containing "effective-heterogeneousness" are presented.