Listening chat -> Sticky note division -> Regroup

2021/1/22 Lab Study Session I’m going to talk about a natural language processing algorithm that carves sentences into sticky notes of up to 20 characters, but I’ll start with the big picture

Regroup

• Tools to help you organize your mind
• Organize information in fragments by arranging them in two dimensions and moving them freely
• An electronic version of the method Nishio uses for writing books and preparing lecture materials.
  • Important stickies can be made larger with two clicks.
• You have to gather some fragments before you can feel the effects.
  • You need to be familiar with creating fragments to use them.
  • If you can’t use it, you won’t have the skills to make fragments.
  • It’s a chicken and egg relationship!

Segmented Sticky Note Algorithm

• So I would observe “what Nishio does when he makes stickies” and program it.
• You put in a sentence, and a sticky note comes up.”
  • How do you prepare that sentence?
• People in this study group are pretty good at verbalization compared to the average in the world.
  • A lot of people don’t write blog posts or anything.
• For those who are not good at verbalization, “preparing sentences” is difficult in the first place.
  • It is difficult to write down the fuzzy, unorganized thoughts in your head, so Regroup’s story is to first write them down in fragments, and then rearrange them to create sentences.
  • The chicken and the egg relationship in “Prepare the text first.”

Listening Chat System

• The program asks questions to the human and the human answers them.
• Apply keyword extraction to the user’s responses, and ask in-depth questions for keywords that seem important.
• I made it before and had it live as a chatbot in Mattermost’s unexplored junior chat.
• If I put the logs on Scrapbox from time to time, there were a few people who wanted to use them, but since it’s a closed chat, I can’t let them use them.
• This time, some features have been removed and ported to the web.

Combine these three elements

• Conversation logs for the listening chat system,
• Sticky note with split sticky note algorithm,
• Import and organize in Regroup

Just completed on Thursday, January 21.

• Good and clear transition between divergent and convergent phases
  • Need a bigger screen to organize
  • Chat can be used on your phone while taking a walk.
  • “I’m going for a walk, chatting and venting.”
  • I’ll organize it on my PC/iPad when I get home.”
• There are still many holes in the split-stickying algorithm.

The Future

• There is a lack of data stored in the chat system, so the keywords extracted during the chat are not being utilized very well.
• The part that uses machine learning and the part that spits out training data for machine learning was removed during this porting → fix it.
  • Specifically, “Is the user excited about the question?” and “Under what circumstances would the user be excited if I chose which question?”
• Now every time I start a conversation I get amnesia.
  • It would be better if it had a per-user memory.
  • Or “keywords this person uses a lot.”
  • Ultimately, it would be nice to be able to interact with stickies on Regroup by utilizing information such as how large they are or how adjacent they are.
  • I won’t memorize anything right now, so I’ll start with the easy part first.

Algorithms. - Assistance in dividing long sentences into stickies

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discussion - Mechanical and Craftsmanship Division - Sentence organization process using Regroup - Originally derived from the KJ method, but no longer misleading to call it the KJ method - KJ Method “group formation” is clear inside and outside the group - This method has no clear group boundaries - They don’t even do the process of bundling and putting a nameplate on it. - The emphasis is on “even if we cannot explicitly verbalize what the relationship is, we can express that it is somehow related by placing them close together.

• Won’t I read the spatial arrangement I made six months later and not know what it means? Won’t others get the message?
  • It is a temporal part of the writing process and does not need to be conveyed.
• What happens in the chat when this Regroup?”
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  • It’s a bit of an awkward question for Japanese, but it prompted me to notice
  • Until you asked me this question, I was imagining only a one-way flow of “ask in chat → split → put in Regroup”.
  • I realized when you asked me that it could be in the opposite direction.

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