Finding and expressing news from structured data

Leppänen, Leo; Munezero, Myriam; Sirén-Heikel, Stefanie; Granroth-Wilding, Mark; Toivonen, Hannu

doi:10.1145/3131085.3131112

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“…Pour les entreprises de presse, le recours à ces technologies présente plusieurs avantages : rapidité d'exécution, couverture en temps réel, production de contenus à grande échelle, possibilité de générer différentes formes de représentations visuelles à partir d'un même jeu de données, multilinguisme et extension de leurs zones de couverture médiatique (Graefe, 2016, Leppänen al., 2017. Plus rarement, les technologies d'automatisation peuvent avoir pour objectif de soutenir les journalistes dans leurs routines quotidiennes ou dans le cadre d'enquêtes s'inscrivant dans la continuité d'une logique de datajournalisme, en leur fournissant un brouillon automatisé qu'ils enrichiront de leur expérience (Latar, 2015).…”

Section: Information Automatisée Et Nouveaux Acteurs Des Processus Jounclassified

Information automatisée et nouveaux acteurs des processus journalistiques

Dierickx¹

2019

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FR. Le développement des technologies d’automatisation de la production d’informations dévoile, sur la scène médiatique, de nouveaux acteurs qui ne sont pas traditionnellement liés au monde du journalisme. On retrouve, parmi ceux-ci, des sociétés technologiques où sont employés des linguistes et des informaticiens. Bien qu’elles ne considèrent pas « faire acte » de journalisme, elles participent néanmoins à une chaîne de production éditoriale, jusqu’alors dévolue aux seuls professionnels de l’information. Cela implique de nouvelles formes de collaboration où vont cohabiter des agents sociaux aux cultures professionnelles différentes : à la rationalité de la technologie, sera opposée la subjectivité du journalisme. Mais il ne s’agirait pas de réduire un processus automatisé à une technologie qui se bornerait à transformer des entrants (des données) en extrants (des textes ou toute autre forme de représentation visuelle). Ce processus participe à une logique éditoriale traditionnelle, caractérisée par une succession de choix. Cet article vise à une meilleure compréhension de cette dynamique, à travers une étude de cas réalisée dans le cadre de la conception d’un système d’automatisation visant à soutenir les routines quotidiennes de journalistes attachés au service boursier d’un média belge francophone. Dans ses principaux enseignements, cette expérience témoigne de la nécessité d’un profil qui soit à la fois technique et journalistique, dès lors qu’il facilite les échanges entre les mondes du journalisme et de la technique. L’implication active des journalistes dès les premières heures du projet va apparaître comme un préalable, dès lors qu’ils disposent de l’expertise du domaine d’application et des compétences éditoriales qui forgeront l’artefact dont on ne peut considérer qu’il soit d’abord technologique. Pour les agents sociaux du monde de la technique, cela implique un changement de paradigme : il s’agit désormais d’admettre qu’ils participent à un processus éditorial qui suppose, tout au moins, de développer une « pensée journalistique ». *** EN. The development of news automation technologies is uncovering new actors on the media scene who have not traditionally been linked to the world of journalism. Among these are technology companies employing linguists and computer scientists. Although they do not consider themselves as “producing journalism,” these companies do participate actively in an editorial production chain that was hitherto the purview of news professionals. This implies new forms of collaboration between different professional cultures; where the rationality of technology is opposed to the subjectivity of journalism. An automated process cannot be reduced to the transformation of input (data) into output (texts or any other form of visual representation), however. This process relies on traditional editorial logic, characterized by a succession of choices. This paper aims to better understand this dynamic by way of a case study conducted within French-speaking Belgian media, where an automated system was designed to support the daily routines of stock market journalists. The main lesson gleaned from this experiment was the need for a profile defined by both the journalistic and the technical fields, as it is meant to facilitate exchanges between these two worlds. The active involvement of journalists from the very beginning of any such project appears to be vital, as long as they have an expertise in the field it will be applied and the editorial skills to shape the program, which cannot be considered primarily technological. For social agents involved in the world of technology, this calls for a paradigm shift in which they accept that their participation in this new editorial process implies, at minimum, the development of a form of (automated) “journalistic thinking.” *** PT. O desenvolvimento de tecnologias de automação de notícias está revelando novos atores no cenário da mídia, que não estão tradicionalmente ligados ao mundo do jornalismo. Entre eles, existem empresas tecnológicas onde linguistas e cientistas da computação são empregados. Embora não se considerem fazendo jornalismo, essas empresas participam ativamente de uma cadeia editorial de produção, que até então era confiada aos profissionais da informação. Isso implica novas formas de colaboração onde coexistem diferentes culturas profissionais: a racionalidade da tecnologia será então oposta à subjetividade do jornalismo. No entanto, qualquer processo automatizado não pode ser reduzido à transformação de entradas (dados) em saídas (textos ou qualquer outra forma de representação visual). Esse processo se apóia em uma lógica editorial tradicional, caracterizada por uma sucessão de escolhas. Este artigo objetiva uma melhor compreensão dessa dinâmica, por meio de um estudo de caso realizado na mídia belga de língua francesa, onde um sistema automatizado foi projetado para apoiar as rotinas diárias de jornalistas ligados a um serviço do mercado de ações. Em suas principais lições, essa experiência atesta a necessidade de um perfil fundamentado tanto no campo jornalístico quanto no técnico, pois facilitará o intercâmbio entre os mundos do jornalismo e da tecnologia. O envolvimento ativo de jornalistas desde as primeiras horas do projeto aparecerá como um pré-requisito, pois eles têm o conhecimento deste domínio de aplicação, bem como as habilidades editoriais que forjarão um artefato que não pode ser considerado puramente tecnológico. Para os agentes sociais envolvidos no mundo da tecnologia, supõe uma mudança de paradigma ao admitir que o envolvimento deles em um processo editorial que implica, pelo menos, desenvolver uma forma de "pensamento jornalístico". ***

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Information automatisée et nouveaux acteurs des processus journalistiques

Dierickx¹

2019

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“…Using the method described in Leppänen et al [14], newsworthiness is determined as the product of four factors: topicality, outlierness, interestingness, and personalization. Topicality details how important a fact is in terms of the current (public) discourse or time, while outlierness captures how unexpected, surprising or rare the fact is.…”

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“…As mentioned in Section 3, we make use of the newsworthiness formulation given in [14] to assign a score to each fact. Determination of what is newsworthy is based on the product of topicality, outlierness, interestingness, and personalization factors.…”

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Towards Data-Driven Generation of Visualizations for Automatically Generated News Articles

Alhalaseh

Munezero

Leinonen

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 22nd International Academic Mindtrek Conference

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A feature news story is often accompanied by illustrations and visuals. These visualizations can be, e.g., timelines, line charts, pie charts, or images. In this article, we present a largely data-driven and domain-independent approach for generating visualizations to accompany automatically generated news articles. We demonstrate the feasibility of our approach by applying it to statistical data on crime in Finland. The practical implementation demonstrates how the automatically generated visualizations provide additional information and interactivity to the news articles. We further illustrate how the approach presented is easily transferable to different domains with structured numerical datasets.

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“…In the US, Associated Press has produced more than 3,700 stories using algorithms [20]. Scholars have also created AI systems for newsrooms, supporting investigative research through data analysis and visualisation [9,11,65], automatic story generation based on newsworthiness [41] and story-related creativity [43,44] . Newsrooms are cautiously optimistic about the potential of AI and plan to step up its use to drive more effective content distribution and achieve time and cost efficiencies [5,48].…”

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AI should embody our values: Investigating journalistic values to inform AI technology design

Komatsu

Lopez

Makri

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society

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In the current climate of shrinking newsrooms and revenues, journalists face increasing pressures exerted by the industry's for-profit focus and the expectation of intensified output. While AI-enabled journalism has great potential to help alleviate journalists' pressures, it might also disrupt journalistic norms and, at worst, interfere with their duty to inform the public. For AI systems to be as useful as possible, designers should understand journalists' professional values and incorporate them into their designs. We report findings from interviews with journalists to understand their perceptions of how professional values that are important to them (such as truth, impartiality and originality) might be supported and/or undermined by AI technologies. Based on these findings, we provide design insight and guidelines for incorporating values into the design of AI systems. We argue HCI design can achieve the strongest possible value alignment by moving beyond merely supporting important values, to truly embodying them. CCS Human-centered computing Empirical studies in HCI.

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Finding and expressing news from structured data

Cited by 8 publications

References 27 publications

Information automatisée et nouveaux acteurs des processus journalistiques

Information automatisée et nouveaux acteurs des processus journalistiques

Towards Data-Driven Generation of Visualizations for Automatically Generated News Articles

AI should embody our values: Investigating journalistic values to inform AI technology design

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