Recommendation services

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The BBC's sports section also uses algorithms to describe matches. The publication buys information about the game (goals, shots, fouls, throw-ins, offsides, cards) from companies that manually collect sports data, and then uses a special program to convert it into a text broadcast. An example of such text can be seen at the bottom of this article . The Russian publication Sports.ru also uses factual text broadcasts created by robots.

Before Yandex, there were almost no services in Russia that would norway mobile phone numbers database generate coherent texts themselves. Perhaps this is due to the more complex structure of the Russian language, which makes it difficult to automatically create full-fledged texts. But Russian media have long been using recommendation services, which can also be called robot editors - they automatically select materials that are most relevant to a specific user.

For example, Surfingbird . The program uses information about what topics are interesting to a person, what publications he prefers, and what articles he and his friends "like". Gradually, the service learns more and more about the user's preferences, which allows him to choose more and more suitable materials. A similar application, " Mint ", collects articles not from all over the RuNet, but from the most popular publics on VKontakte.

Editing services
Another direction in which robotization of journalism is developing is text editing. There are services that automatically replace words in the original material with non-synonyms, thus creating a rewrite of the original. But the quality of such text often leaves much to be desired. So far, programs that do not edit the text automatically, but underline errors, work better. And we are talking not only about typos, grammatical and punctuation errors that Word identifies, but also about stylistic shortcomings.