Automated Narratives and Journalistic Text Generation: The Lead Organization Structure Translated into Code

It describes the experiment of building a software capable of generating leads and newspaper titles in an automated fashion from information obtained from the Internet. The theoretical possibility Lage already provided by the end of last century is based on relatively rigid and simple structure of t...

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Published inBrazilian journalism research Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 150 - 175
Main Author Santos, Márcio Carneiro dos
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Brasilia Associação Brasileira de Pesquisadores de Jornalismo - SBPJor 01.04.2016
Associação Brasileira de Pesquisadores em Jornalismo
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Artificial intelligence
Automated Narratives
Automation
NLTK
Online journalism
Python
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Summary:It describes the experiment of building a software capable of generating leads and newspaper titles in an automated fashion from information obtained from the Internet. The theoretical possibility Lage already provided by the end of last century is based on relatively rigid and simple structure of this type of story construction, which facilitates the representation or translation of its syntax in terms of instructions that the computer can execute. The paper also discusses the relationship between society, technique and technology, making a brief history of the introduction of digital solutions in newsrooms and their impacts. The development was done with the Python programming language and NLTK- Natural Language Toolkit library - and used the results of the Brazilian Soccer Championship 2013 published on an internet portal as a data source.
ISSN:1808-4079
1981-9854
DOI:10.25200/BJR.v12n1.2016.921