DaMata: A Robot-Journalist Covering the Brazilian Amazon Deforestation

André Luiz Rosa Teixeira, João Gabriel Moura Campos, Rossana Cunha, Thiago Castro Ferreira, Adriana Silvina Pagano, Fabio Gagliardi Cozman

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Abstract

This demo paper introduces DaMata, a robot-journalist covering deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. The robot-journalist is based on a pipeline architecture of Natural Language Generation, which yields multilingual daily and monthly reports based on the public data provided by DETER, a real-time deforestation satellite monitor developed and maintained by the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE). DaMata automatically generates reports in Brazilian Portuguese and English and publishes them on the Twitter platform. Corpus and code are publicly available.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationINLG 2020 - 13th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, Proceedings
EditorsBrian Davis, Yvette Graham, John Kelleher, Yaji Sripada
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages103-106
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781952148545
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event13th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, INLG 2020 - Virtual, Dublin, Ireland
Duration: 15 Dec 202018 Dec 2020

Publication series

NameINLG 2020 - 13th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, Proceedings

Conference

Conference13th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, INLG 2020
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityVirtual, Dublin
Period15/12/2018/12/20

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