Automated Sports Content: The Future of Sports Journalism?

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by RobbieStats • 16 years ago

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hockeybias• 16 years ago

Holler when you get the hockey stats going! :)

RobbieStats3• 16 years ago

I'm getting the full NHL HITS feed now, so it's just a matter of time!

snewe• 16 years ago

Will the automated content include interviews with players or quotes from coaches? You would need to scrape that content from non-automated sports stories.

RobbieStats3• 16 years ago

Most of the content will be seeded from stats, which means less emphases on qualitative content. But I do get feeds for things like injuries so I'll be able to automate injury reporting.

johns• 16 years ago

Quotes are almost automated today. Most pro sports coaches and athletes endlessly recite the same cliches already.

RobbieStats3• 16 years ago

Good point ;-)

dmix• 16 years ago

The coaches just need to take it one game at a time.

dugmartin• 16 years ago

Natural language generation is a fun topic. I'm currently building automated overviews of web stats at http://overlytics.com. Its a much smaller data domain to report over.

gbookman• 16 years ago

This service just makes so much sense for both readers and the media outlets. Now every game in every sport can be summarized, plus it frees up time and resources that can be invested in expert analysis and other enhancements to the user experience.

The only thing I'd like to see is the ability to incorporate commentary from fans. ESPN and others already do live chats on various games and it seems like you could extrapolate meaningful events from that data if you had access to it.

Automated Sports Content: The Future of Sports Journalism?

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