Automated News Reporting Channel

There goes the saying that ?The only difference between being uninformed and misinformed is that one is your choice and the other is theirs.? Sadly, this is becoming correct with the advancement in 21st century where the world faces an imminent information catastrophe to such an extent that we are c

Project Title

Automated News Reporting Channel

Project Area of Specialization

Artificial Intelligence

Project Summary

There goes the saying that “The only difference between being uninformed and misinformed is that one is your choice and the other is theirs.” Sadly, this is becoming correct with the advancement in 21st century where the world faces an imminent information catastrophe to such an extent that we are constantly bombarded with lots & lots of information from different channels and mediums yet we ourselves are unsure which one is true, and which one is not.

The evolving technology has brought evolution in all the fields and news media and journalism are no exception. Research have been started on automating the process of news channel and in the next 10 years it might be the case that traditional journalism would be shifted to automated journalism or robotic journalism. This project aims to develop such automated news channel which can gather data required for the news, can filter out the actual content from that data and then present it in the news format.

Thus, our aim is to design a system which would be as such that it can scrap data from different news reporting sources/websites (to ensure the authenticity of the news), filter those data for authentic content only, aggregate, summarize and synthesize it and then broadcast the final accurate news.

Project Objectives

The automated news reporting channel project will meet the following objectives:

By June 2022, our team aims to develop an automated news reporting agency website by putting in 1600 hours effort

Provides an easy to use, user friendly platform for customer/user which can not only be used to watch news but also search for any past news simultaneously.

? This will help in providing user with fast access to the news which can approximately safe 10% of their time that was wasted in browsing and surfing for genuine news.

? It will further help in reducing the consumption of fake/unauthentic news in the people by approximately 10-20%

Project Implementation Method

The implementation of the project consists of 3 seperate parts which are:

1) The implementation of Parser: This phase is necessary to scrape the news from different websites/ sources. It makes use of algorithms like Selenium and BS4 to implement the parsing functions

2) Sanitisation/Summarization of News: This phase makees use of the Artificial Intelligence and in particular Natural Language Processing (NLP). Different forms of Statistical and Machine Learning NLP methods are being tested and implemented here to obtain a final accuratee form of newsreport.

3) Text to Speech: This phase is used to convert the written news into oral form which would then be delivered onto webste's home page. It makes use of the google text to speech library to convert into oral forrm.

The proper step by step working of the system is as follows:

• There is an admin portal from where the admin would be able to edit the URLs (i.e., add new URLs, delete any previous unwanted URLs, enable or disable any URL etc.) or read the synthesized documents (news) and disable them if needed.
• From the given URL’s website, web scrapping technique is applied to gather the required data related to news content. This technique is applied after every set time interval period to refresh the new content.
• Once the data is scrapped it is filtered, summarized, and news is generated out of it.
• The generated news is then converted from written to oral form using text to speech library and presented to the user on the customer view page

Benefits of the Project

The benefits of this system is that it is portable. Any person from anywhere can access the system's website and watch the news. Furthermore the news presented here can be said to be more authentic compared to other news-channel's news because the news which is filtered & sumamrised is then compared with different channels for the purpose of authenticating that news.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

The final delierable would consist of an executable system with correct NLP based working i.e. the filtration, summarization and synthetization of the news related content to extract the correct news. This news would be presented to the user on the webpage by an animated character (such as shown below)

The website would be hosted live so it would be accessible to anyone, anywhere.

Final Deliverable of the Project

Software System

Core Industry

Media

Other Industries

IT

Core Technology

Artificial Intelligence(AI)

Other Technologies

Big Data

Sustainable Development Goals

Decent Work and Economic Growth, Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Peace and Justice Strong Institutions

Required Resources

If you need this project, please contact me on contact@adikhanofficial.com