Stent: Bloomberg's human-written stories are much more informative than automated ones
Amanda Stent · Text Analytics for Finance // Amanda Stent, Bloomberg (FirstMark's Data Driven) · Mar 2, 2018 · at 21:12
Amanda Stent, NLP researcher at Bloomberg, addresses an audience question regarding competitor scraping and usage of Bloomberg's automated articles.
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“Our manually generated stories, which are frankly much more informative”
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