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Jonathan Stray / Digital Journalism
/ Jul 8“Journalism problems are often unique to a particular story, which means that training data is not readily available…Much of the data relevant to a story is not publicly accessible but in the hands of governments and private entities…Journalistic inference requires very high accuracy, or extensive manual checking, to avoid the risk of libel. The factors that make some set of facts ‘newsworthy’ are deeply sociopolitical and therefore difficult to encode computationally.” —
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Jonathan Stray
