Commentary
AI Problem Map …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Fujio Tsutsumi 315
Special Issue:“Competitions for Artificial Intelligence Research”
Editor’s Introduction to“Competitions for Artificial Intelligence Research” …………………………………………………………… Yoshinobu Kano 316
The Animal AI Olympics and WBAI’s Related Activities ……………………………………………………… Hiroshi Yamakawa and Naoya Arakawa 317
Shared Tasks in Biomedical NLP ………………………………………………………………………………………… Jin-Dong Kim and YukaTateisi 323
What Did We Learn from the Dialogue System Live Competition? …………………… Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kotaro Funakoshi, Michimasa Inaba,
………………………………………… Yuiko Tsunomori, Tetsuro Takahashi, Reina Akama, Mayumi Usami, Yoshiko Kawabata and Masahiro Mizukami 333
AI Wolf Contest
─ After the International Contest and the Natural Language Contest ─
…………………… Fujio Toriumi, Yoshinobu Kano, Takashi Otsuki, Hirotaka Osawa, Claus Aranha, Michimasa Inaba and Daisuke Katagami 344
Supply Chain Management League（SCML）
─ Automated Negotiating Agent Competition for Manufacturing Value Chain ─
…………………………………………………………………… Yasser Mohammad, Shinji Nakadai, Satoshi Morinaga and Katsuhide Fujita 351
TEPCO Electricity Load Forecasting Contest
─ TEPCO Open Innovation Challenge ─ …………………………………………………… Hisashi Takeda, Tomoki Okamoto and Takashi Shimpo 360
Kaggle Kuzushiji Recognition Competition
─ Challenges of Hosting a World-Wide Competition in the Digital Humanities ─ …… Asanobu Kitamoto, Tarin Clanuwat and Mikel Bober-Irizar 366
COLIEE: Competition for Legal Information Extraction and Entailment
………………………………………… Yoshinobu Kano, Masaharu Yoshioka, Juliano Rabelo, Mi-Young Kim, Randy Goebel and Ken Satoh 377
Research Trends on Hanabi Competition: Mutual Cooperation under Imperfect Information ………………………………………… Hirotaka Osawa 385
Special Issue:“AI Brings Osamu Tezuka Back for a New Manga”
Editor’s Introduction to“AI Brings Osamu Tezuka Back for a New Manga” ……………………………………………………………Ryohei Orihara 390
TEZUKA 2020 Project
─ Creation of Comics by Human and AI ─ ……………………………………………………………………………………… Hitoshi Matsubara 391
The AI to Read Comics
─ A Case Study of the Manga by Osamu Tezuka ─ ………………………………………………………………………………Kazushi Mukaiyama 395
Birth Story of Manga-Plot“ PHAEDO” ……………………………………………………………………………… Satoshi Kurihara and Yoji Kawano 402
PHAEDO’s Secret Story of Birth …………………………………………………………… Satoshi Kurihara, Atsushi Nakajima and Atsushi Kunimatsu 410
Can AI Produce a Genius? ─ Collaborative Creation between Human and AI …………………………………………………………… Macoto Tezka 418
Reviewing TEZUKA 2020
─ As a Case Study of AI-based Creativity Support and a PR Campaign ─ ……………………………………… Ryohei Orihara and Kenichi Mori 422
Lecture Series:“The Current State of Artificial Intelligence”（8）
Past and Present of Agents and Multiagents ……………………………………………………………… Katashi Nagao, Ei-Ichi Osawa and Takayuki Ito 430
Series:“AI for the Liberal Arts”（6）
Basic Knowledge of Speech Communication and Visual Recognition AI ……………………………… Sho Sakurai, Dohjin Miyamoto and Rei Sasaki 444
My Bookmark
Automatic Speech Recognition System ……………………………………………………………………………………………… Ryoichi Takashima 455
Students Forum（101）
Interview with Prof. Satoshi Sato“ Form a Strong Basis of writing Novels” ………………………………… Kotaro Fukushima and Mamoru Yoshizoe 461
Conference Reports
The 33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems（NeurIPS 2019） ……………………………………………………… Tsuyoshi Okita 465
Book Review
Kenicihiro Ishii, Naonori Ueda, Eisaku Maeda and Hiroshi Murase:
Fundamentals of Statistical Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, 2nd ed., pp. 274, Ohmsha, Ltd.（2019） …………………Youichiro Miyake 467
Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Michimasa Inaba and Masahiro Mizukami:
Creating a Dialogue System with Python, pp. 260, Ohmsha, Ltd.（2020） ……………………………………………………………Youichiro Miyake 468
Article
Cover Comment: Phaedo, a Manga Character Produced by AI ……………………………………………………………………………Ryohei Orihara 469