Fabio Cozman


2022

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BLAB Reporter: Automated journalism covering the Blue Amazon
Yan Sym | João Campos | Fabio Cozman
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Natural Language Generation: System Demonstrations

This demo paper introduces BLAB reporter, a robot-journalist system covering the Brazilian Blue Amazon. The application is based on a pipeline architecture for Natural Language Generation, which offers daily reports, news summaries and curious facts in Brazilian Portuguese. By collecting, storing and analysing structured data from publicly available sources, the robot-journalist uses domain knowledge to generate, validate and publish texts in Twitter. Code and corpus are publicly available.

2020

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DaMata: A Robot-Journalist Covering the Brazilian Amazon Deforestation
André Luiz Rosa Teixeira | João Campos | Rossana Cunha | Thiago Castro Ferreira | Adriana Pagano | Fabio Cozman
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Natural Language Generation

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.