4:30pm – 5:30pm Round-table discussion in EC345
Abstract:
I will introduce a couple of ongoing projects we organize. The projects include automatic examination solver, the Todai Robot project which aims to solve Japanese university entrance examinations (multiple choice selection and descriptive), the challenge of Legal Bar Exam for lawyers. Other projects include medical document processing for automatic diagnosis, AI werewolf that creates an AI player for a conversation game, text mining for scientific literatures.
Bio-sketch:
Associate Professor, Faculty of Informatics. Shizuoka University, Japan. BS in physics (2001), MSc (2003) and PhD (2011) in information science and technology from the University of Tokyo. A research associate in University of Tokyo (2009), JST PRESTO researcher (2011), an associate professor (PI) in Shizuoka Univerity (2014-). Current research theme includes more human-like dialog system (AI werewolf, copy generation), examination question answering (social, medical, and legal), medical NLP (EHRs, MedNLP), text mining for neuroscience papers, serving as organizers for these different projects individually.
kano@inf.shizuoka.ac.jp
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