论机器人新闻的精确性和可读性

On the Accuracy and Readability of Robot Journalism

作为人类历史上第一次由机器代替人类全自动生产的新闻,机器人新闻自产生以来就受到社会的广泛关注。目前人们对机器人新闻几乎一边倒地认为它具有精确性优势和可读性差的致命缺陷。然而,从机器人新闻的生产原理和实践过程来看,它既具有精确性的一面,也存在出错的可能性,不能仅仅基于对电脑程序的表面认识和对科技的迷信而忽略了机器人新闻存在的犯错风险;机器人新闻虽然是由电脑程序套用既有新闻模板生产的,但它能够做到多样化、个性化,有立场、有感情,有"温度"、有"人性",以可读性差来否定机器人新闻难以成立,更不能以主观臆断机器人新闻具有可读性差的致命缺陷而认为人类记者就可以高枕无忧。

For the first time in human history,we are witnessing the appearance the replacement of human-produced news with machine-generated content,and so-called robot journalism is receiving widespread attention.At present,most people recognize the accuracy of robot journalism,while also criticizing its readability.As a matter of fact,Robot journalism is characterized by high-levels of accuracy,but the readability of the texts produced is still very poor due to the quantity of mistakes,which is something we need to acknowledge if we want robot news to achieve an acceptable level of readability.