Proposal and Comparison of an Idea Generation Support System Presenting Words for the Use of Scarce Knowledge People

In this article, we propose an idea generation support system for scarce knowledge people. In brainstorming carried out in less knowledge people such as college students, sometimes they cannot generate a diversity of idea because of the lack of experience or bias in knowledge. The proposed system provides hint words associated with a theme so that the hint words encourage idea generation. The system previously collects web texts related to the theme and classifies words into some clusters based on the degree of word co-occurrence so that the system makes hint database. The system provide hints based on the hint database by request from users. We had implemented this system and had performed one experiment for the theme “seeking employment (prospects)”. From the result of the experiment, it is cleared that the number of idea increased and the proposed system may promote a variety of ideas. In this paper, we show a part of the result of a experiment using other hint database “Ideal marriage partner” and comparison the questionnaire results.