General Election 2019: How computers wrote BBC election result stories

By 2019-12-13Science & Tech
Image caption Reeta Chakrabarti analysed election results on television for the BBC

For the first time, BBC News published a news story for every constituency that declared election results overnight – all written by a computer.

It was the BBC’s biggest test of machine-generated journalism so far.

Each of nearly 700 articles – most in English but 40 of them in Welsh – was checked by a human editor before publication.

The head of the project said the tech was designed to enhance the service provided rather than to replace humans.

“This is about doing journalism that we cannot do with human beings at the moment ... Read even more

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