Taking the English Exam for the 'Can a Robot Get into the University of Tokyo?' Project

摘要

NTT and its research partners are participating in the “Can a robot get into the University of Tokyo?” project run by the National Institute of Informatics, which involves tackling English exams. The artificial intelligence system we developed took a mock test in 2014 and achieved a better-than-human-average score for the first time. This was a notable achievement since English exams require English knowledge and also common sense knowledge that humans take for granted but that computers do not necessarily possess. In this article, we describe how our artificial intelligence system takes on English exams.