Automated Insights Generates Several Million Fantasy Sports Articles

Serious question: how is Google going to deal with the advent of technologies like this being used to create billions of pretty decent pieces of content?

This is awesome because the most fun I have in fantasy leagues is the interaction with the people I am playing against. So this just takes it to a next level and provides a recap like the normal NFL games.<p>Good to see a Durham, NC company get some love.

For some reason, I think that this will only add to our existing problem of having too much data to digest, but no way to reasonably digest it. In other words - we need a way to extract valuable data from millions of articles, not generate millions more.

This is pretty cool. It's very personalized—it would never make sense for Yahoo to hire people to write recap for fantasy games, since those recaps are going to be of interest only to the participants in the league (and maybe only to the two players in the particular game). But it makes sense to have a program write recaps for all those individual games instead of just showing box scores or whatever they had before (I don't play fantasy football myself... it feels too much like work for me, messing around with spreadsheets and numbers and algorithms!).

Here is a good write-up with examples of what the recaps look like if you aren't in a Yahoo league: <a href="http://www.fantasycube.com/nfl/robots-write-fantasy-football-yahoo-10349" rel="nofollow">http://www.fantasycube.com/nfl/robots-write-fantasy-football...</a>

I think this is pretty neat, although it does come with many unintended consequences for spam.<p>Does anyone have more information on the technology they use to generate these articles? I assume some sort of NLP in reverse (natural language generation, I guess?)

I think this company is fascinating in its approach -- most companies are trying to automate the analysis of human-generated content where they are automating the generation of human-analyzable content.

Good Luck Google!