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

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

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  2. 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!

  3. But still.... by AgBullet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    won't you need someone to write the stuff to be paraphrased in the first place?? explain to me how that replaces reporters with small shell scripts.

  4. Dupe by greenhide · · Score: 5, Informative

    Unfortunately, there isn't yet a way to use computers to detect dupes.

    Or Is there?!?

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  5. Someone must research a story . . . by kfg · · Score: 5, Interesting

    conduct interviews and generate original copy. These people are called reporters.

    The people who take this copy off the wire and paraphrase it for publication in the local paper are called copy writers.

    This software will reduce the number of copy writers needed, not reporters.

    This is certainly an issue to the copy writers and their families, but overall it's really just a blue collar worker being replaced by a robot issue.

    The idea of a 'style dial' I find a bit more disturbing.

    KFG