Knowledge Graph Assisted Automatic Sports News Writing

In 2014, Quakebot [1], a robot of Los Angeles Times, automatically generated and published disaster news reports three minutes after the earthquake. Tencent Finance is the first media in China to use a news writing robot. The Dream Writer [2] developed by Tencent Finance automatically generates manuscripts in the first time. In November 2015, Xinhua News Agency began to try to use news automatic generation technology to write, and their "quick pen and small new" [3] can quickly generate a financial news. At the Rio Olympic Games in 2016, today's headlines realized the automatic generation of Olympic news by using the xiaomingbot [4] writing robot. It can be seen that news automatic writing technology has a very wide range of application scenarios, but it is still in the exploration stage because of the variety of news and the intersection of many different disciplines. At present, there are three main development directions of news automatic generation technology, namely template, extraction and generation [5]. In recent years, there have been a series of representative studies on automatic writing in the field of sports news. Xu et al. [6] extracted important sentences from the live text broadcast of football matches by