每当公司集中发布季度财报时,美联社都要动用大量记者撰写相关报道,这让不少记者疲于应付。美联社最近宣布,将利用自动写作软件撰写财报类新闻。写作软件可以自动抓取财报中的有用数据,将其填入美联社预先编辑好的写作模板中。几秒钟之内,一篇150—300字的新闻快讯就“写”出来了。这意味着在一个季度里,以前花费人力只能写300条新闻,如今则有4400条新闻自动生成。 When the company focused on quarterly earnings release, the Associated Press have to use a large number of reporters to write relevant reports, which makes a lot of reporters struggling. The Associated Press recently announced that it will use automated writing software to compose earnings reports. Writing software can automatically grab useful data in the earnings report and fill it with the pre-edited writing template from the Associated Press. In a matter of seconds, a 150-300 word news release came out. This means that in a quarter, people used to only write 300 news before, and now there are 4,400 news automatically generated.