Algorithm for Automatic Text Generation Using Weather Forecast Data

Student: Kostogorov Evgenii

Supervisor: Ilya Schurov

Educational Programme: Data Journalism (Master)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2018

The active development of information technology today allows to automate many areas of professional human activity. in particular, some aspects of the work of professional journalists. This work considers the task of developing and implementing an algorithm for the automatic generation of journalistic texts for Russian mass media. Presented modern approaches to creating automatic text generators in natural language based on strongly typed data, analyzing the features and requirements that such systems should meet, as well as an example of a text generator for analyzing meteorological data and creating journalistic texts about weather forecasts.

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