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Scaling Human Editorial Judgment

Abstract:
Systems that present people with information inescapably make editorial
judgments in determining what information to show and how to show it.
 However the editorial values used to make these judgments are generally
invisible to users and in many cases even to the engineers who design them.
 Our work is aimed at developing news and media information technologies
that provide explicit and visible editorial control, at scale.

Some of our most exciting work in this area is aimed at automatically
generating
stories from data.  A system based on this technology is already generating
more than 10 thousand stories weekly in areas ranging from sports, to
business, to politics.  This system is the nation=92s most prolific and
published author of, among other things, women=92s collegiate softball
stories.  The stories compare favorably to those written by human beings.


Hosted by Jinbo Xu:  j3xu at ttic.edu

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*Dawn Ellis*
Administrative Assistant
773-834-1757
dellis at ttic.edu

TTIC
6045 S. Kenwood Ave.
Chicago, IL. 60637



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*Dawn Ellis*
Administrative Assistant
773-834-1757
dellis at ttic.edu

TTIC
6045 S. Kenwood Ave.
Chicago, IL. 60637

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de explicit and visible=A0</span><span style=3D"font-size:large">editorial =
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ze:large">women=92s collegiate softball stories. =A0The stories compare fav=
orably to=A0</span><span style=3D"font-size:large">those written by human b=
eings.</span></div>

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f=3D"mailto:j3xu at ttic.edu" target=3D"_blank">j3xu at ttic.edu</a></div><span c=
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<div dir=3D"ltr"><i><font face=3D"times new roman, serif" size=3D"4">Dawn E=
llis</font></i><div>
<font face=3D"times new roman, serif">Administrative Assistant</font></div>=
<div><font face=3D"times new roman, serif"><a href=3D"tel:773-834-1757" val=
ue=3D"+17738341757" target=3D"_blank">773-834-1757</a></font></div><div><a =
href=3D"mailto:dellis at ttic.edu" target=3D"_blank"><font face=3D"times new r=
oman, serif">dellis at ttic.edu</font></a></div>

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=3D"times new roman, serif">TTIC</font></div><div><font face=3D"times new r=
oman, serif">6045 S. Kenwood Ave.</font></div><div><font face=3D"times new =
roman, serif">Chicago, IL. 60637</font></div>

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<font face=3D"times new roman, serif">773-834-1757</font></div>
<div><a href=3D"mailto:dellis at ttic.edu" target=3D"_blank"><font face=3D"tim=
es new roman, serif">dellis at ttic.edu</font></a></div><div><font face=3D"tim=
es new roman, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face=3D"times new roman, s=
erif">TTIC</font></div>
<div><font face=3D"times new roman, serif">6045 S. Kenwood Ave.</font></div=
><div><font face=3D"times new roman, serif">Chicago, IL. 60637</font></div>=
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