Can you beat TOROBO-kun?

We are participating in the “Can a robot get into the University of Tokyo?” project of the National Institute of Informatics, focusing on how to tackle English exams. Succeeding on English exams requires not only English knowledge but also “common sense knowledge” that humans take for granted but computers do not possess. For example, there are problems that require estimation of human emotion and the causal relationships of events. With our common sense reasoning techniques developed through research on dialogue and machine translation systems, we have for the first time achieved a higher score than the average human score on a Mock Center Test.

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