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grnidone

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Spinning goes Mainstream: Can a computer be a journalist?
« on: May 12, 2012, 02:16:37 PM »
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Chicago-based company Narrative Science has set out to prove that computers can tell stories good enough for a fickle human audience. It has created a program that takes raw data and turns it into a story, a system that's worked well enough for the company to earn its own byline on Forbes.com.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/11/tech/innovation/computer-assisted-writing/index.html

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Re: Spinning goes Mainstream: Can a computer be a journalist?
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2012, 09:14:14 AM »
You know, I hardly remember collaborating on that paper. Remind me though, where do we send the bill!?

I read somewhere that much of the olympics coverage will be pre-generated then passed by a human before publishing.  Some semantic database of all competitors/event history etc. What I can't remember though is whether this is actually happening or whether this was an idea being batted about with someone here.