A proposal of an evaluation method IPL for effects of individual quantity of domain knowledge on an intuitive classification in a distributed and cooperative KJ method and its application

Abstract

We propose a new evaluation method IPL (Island formation using Pseudo Label), and show its efficiency. In IPL method, the effects of domain knowledge of each participant can be evaluated based on an intuitive classification task in a distributed and cooperative KJ method. Experiments using IPL method show the influences upon the island formation caused by the distribution of knowledge quantitatively. There exists a similar method called LCR method which provides an evaluation method for the logical classification tasks. However the proposed IPL method provides an evaluation method for the intuitive classification tasks by which the creation of new idea can be done easily and effectively.