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Haapanen, Lauri; Leppänen, Leo – AILA Review, 2020
The amount of available digital data is increasing at a tremendous rate. These data, however, are of limited use unless converted into a user-friendly form. We took on this task and built a natural language generation (NLG) driven system that generates journalistic news stories about elections without human intervention. In this paper, after…
Descriptors: News Reporting, Journalism, Elections, Computational Linguistics
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Swan, Kathy; Hofer, Mark – Social Studies, 2006
Educating students to understand overt, subtle, and erroneous claims made by partisan advertisers is no small feat. Often students are passive consumers who need to learn how to become critical listeners, viewers, readers, and producers of all types of media. Because of this, media literacy--the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and produce…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mass Media Role, Political Campaigns, Media Literacy
Lindroth, Linda K. – Teaching PreK-8, 1996
Uses Presidential and House of Representatives elections as basis for year-long curriculum focus on civics education, integrating print material, software, and the Internet. Describes classroom activities, Internet sites, and software described for four major areas: (1) campaigning for office; (2) moving into a new home; (3) reporting for work;…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civics, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education