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Computers Paraphrase English

Posted by michael on from the me-talk-pretty-one-day dept.

AhaIndia submits a link to a story discussing computerized paraphrasing of English news articles. This technology, destined to eventually replace most reporters with very small shell scripts, is thankfully still in its infancy.

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  1. hmm... soudns familiar... by Dorothy+86 · · Score: 4, Funny
    This technology, destined to eventually replace most reporters with very small shell scripts

    This shirt?

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  2. Automated slashdot? by TwistedSquare · · Score: 3, Funny
    This technology... thankfully still in its infancy.

    So one day instead of complaining against michael and co., everyone will be moaning about someone else's code - seems more appropriate for a nerd site somehow ;)

    1. Re:Automated slashdot? by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 1, Funny
      "This technology is thankfully still in its infancy."

      I think Michael misspelled 'unfortunately'. But what am I saying...god forbid we have a day when scripts take over Slashdot. Of course, they'd probably program them to dupe and put in random M$-bashing statements.

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  3. fox_news.sh by sinclair44 · · Score: 5, Funny

    #!/bin/sh curl $1 > paraphrase > slant -patriotic -stupid > fox_news_story.txt

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    1. Re:fox_news.sh by drakaan · · Score: 4, Funny
      perl makestory.pl -slant "liberal dem party-line" -severity "raving" -subject "Cheney Halliburton motives"

      Fair is fair ;)

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    2. Re:fox_news.sh by niom · · Score: 4, Funny
      Fair is fair ;)

      Except when immediately followed by "and balanced".

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  4. Very small shell scripts by bunnyman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, but until it can post duplicate articles with slightly different phrases, it will never replace CowboyNeal!

    1. Re:Very small shell scripts by EvilTwinSkippy · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yes, but a system will not take the place of CowboyNeal until it posts duplicate articles with slighty different phrases!

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    2. Re:Very small shell scripts by matth · · Score: 3, Funny

      After taking the place of CowboyNeal will a system like posting duplicate articles, phrase slightly different? Yes!

    3. Re:Very small shell scripts by EvilTwinSkippy · · Score: 3, Funny

      CowboyNeal's system is posting slighty different phrases. Yes takeing me places!

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  5. Re:DUPE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    It's not a dupe; it's a computer generated paraphrasing of the earlier story.

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  6. Fake literature by MAPA3M · · Score: 4, Funny

    Isn't this the way those trashy love novels are written?

  7. Or games... by A55M0NKEY · · Score: 3, Funny

    Someone set up us the bomb!

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  8. Possible outcome of computerized paraphrasing by CapnCarrot · · Score: 2, Funny

    AhaIndia submits story discussing paraphrasing of articles. This technology, destined to replace reporters shell, is still in its infancy. Huh, perhaps we'll still need humans after all . . .

  9. Re:Someone must research a story . . . by Andy_R · · Score: 2, Funny

    You get news that isn't just a bunch of paraphrased press releases?

    Man, I gotta find the preferences checkbox for that stuff!

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  10. I'm a sexist, so what? by Lord+Kano · · Score: 2, Funny

    From the article:
    The researchers, Regina Barzilay, an assistant professor in the department of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Lillian Lee, an associate professor of computer science at Cornell University, said that while the program would not yield paraphrases as zany as those in the Monty Python sketch, it is fairly adept at rewording the flat cadences of news service prose.

    Two women came up with this! Why doesn't it surprise me in the least that women are officially researching ways to automate the process of saying the exact same thing in an infinite number of different ways?

    LK

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  11. Wake me up when... by Megane · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...when we can replace upper level management with small shell scripts.

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