QuoteChicago-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
Yes, and I do appreciate your collaboration with me, helping out with details on FrithyTeapoy
http://apps.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scicache/921/scimakelatex.78439.grnidone.ergophobe.Rooftop.Drastic.html
Also
http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/robot-writers-robot-readers/39793
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.