CLOct 8, 2022

BLAB Reporter: Automated journalism covering the Blue Amazon

arXiv:2210.06431v1297 citationsh-index: 13
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It provides automated journalism for a specific domain (Brazilian Blue Amazon), but is incremental as it applies existing NLG methods to new data.

The paper introduces BLAB Reporter, an automated journalism system that generates daily reports, news summaries, and facts in Brazilian Portuguese for the Brazilian Blue Amazon, using a pipeline architecture to collect and analyze structured data from public sources and publish texts on Twitter.

This demo paper introduces the BLAB Reporter, a robot-journalist covering the Brazilian Blue Amazon. The Reporter is based on a pipeline architecture for Natural Language Generation; it offers daily reports, news summaries and curious facts in Brazilian Portuguese. By collecting, storing and analysing structured data from publicly available sources, the robot-journalist uses domain knowledge to generate and publish texts in Twitter. Code and corpus are publicly available

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