AI News Sources & Collections
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Sources for AI in the News
The following news sources are utilized each week by the NewsFinder software in order to publish AI in the News. Each source is rated with a "preference" or "relevance" factor -- news stories from more preferred sources are more likely to be published.
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. . . and then there are some AI-generated collections and/or AI-powered collection building tools that have been featured in the news:
- News Made Your Way by New Software. By Tracy Staedter. Discovery News (November 3, 2006). "A news show that truly speaks to its viewers is the idea behind 'News at Seven,' an Internet-based program designed to automatically gather, edit and deliver a package of original news and information to people based on their specific interests. ... The host is a computer-animated person broadcasting from a familiar location, such as your favorite beach. ... 'The entire environment can be customizable. We want it to be hyper-personalized,' said Kristian Hammond, professor of computer science and director of the Intelligent Information Laboratory at Northwestern University. At the heart of the program is software capable of grabbing a news feed from a website and using the text of the story to drive a search for images, video and opinionated blogs. ... The story is fed to a computer-animated character, whose tone and inflection are driven by language in the story's text and by the viewer's specific requests."
- Web site faces battle for users in market for local news. By Michael Bazeley. The Mercury News (March 15, 2004). "Unlike traditional online news sites, Topix has no reporters or editors. Instead, its computers monitor more than 3,000 breaking-news sources throughout the day. Using artificial intelligence algorithms, computers scan story content and categorize it by geography and subject matter." Try a search for "artificial intelligence" at Topix.
- When Machines Become Writers and Editors - Will Newsblaster produce tomorrow's leads? By John V. Pavlik. Online Journalism Review (2/5/02). "Most journalists would probably read the lead below and recognize it as a reasonable account of the events that transpired in the Afghan prison uprising. Some readers might wonder about the missing byline: who wrote this lead? The answer would certainly surprise most journalists and other readers, except maybe experts in artificial intelligence. ... The lead was authored by a computer. It's the writing produced by a project called the Columbia Newsblaster. Newsblaster is the online product of a team of researchers headed by Prof. Kathy McKeown at Columbia University's Department of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science."
- and others such as NewsInEssence, Google's News Search (beta), and still others as discussed in the article: The Push for News Returns. By Kendra Mayfield. Wired News (3/30/02). "The University of Michigan is working on a similar service called NewsInEssence, which also uses natural language techniques to find and summarize multiple news articles on the Web. ... NewsInEssence's search agent, called NewsTroll, searches for stories related to the same event. The agent then enters keywords into search engines of news sites and produces summaries of a subset of stories that it finds."
- and Fast Search &Transfer, Rocketinfo, and Newsseer as mentioned in Google search gets newsier. By Stefanie Olsen. CNET News (September 23, 2002). "The new Google News search tool replaces an earlier test version introduced in April...." [Related article: Google enters news arena. BBC (September 24, 2002)]. And from SearchDay: Google News Search Leaps Ahead. October 2, 2002 - Number 368. "The process uses artificial intelligence in addition to traditional information retrieval techniques to match keywords with stories."
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Consistent with our SPRINGBOARD approach, the list of resources on this page is representative. Please be adventurous and explore your local newspaper's web site as well as the web sites of the many newspapers, journals and magazines that have provided us with the articles you have seen in AINews.
Search tips: When using the search feature offered by newpapers and other resources, try using the terms from our Site Map. Also, when searching for a term consisting of more than one word, try putting "__" around the term: "artificial intelligence". And be sure to browse through the Technology and Science sections that newspapers and magazines often have because you just might discover something unexpected!
