Robot Writing Reflections

For the third time in a row, I was a presenter at the yearly TIPPA meeting, which is The Annual International Publication Planning Meeting. This time, I gave a brief overview of what’s happening in the NLG field and tried to analyze how this development will affect us, our professions, and the society we live in.

For this presentation, I picked out three companies as interesting examples:

• Sweden-based United Robots because it has quickly become an exciting player on both sides of the Atlantic, not least in the field of automated journalism.
• Sweden-based Cowrite as I find their cover letter builder intriguing; with a template based on classical rhetoric, it has apparently proved itself effective.
• Germany-based AX Semantics as they are one of the companies that are focusing on the pharmaceutical sector. For example, they claim that 30% of the work on clinical study reports can now be automated.

I welcome all participants to stay in touch, perhaps even drop me a line! Take care! //O.

Some starting points

• Robo-writers: the rise and risks of language-generating AI (Matthew Hutson, Nature, March 2021)
• Auto articles: an experiment in AI-generated content (Nature, December 2020)

NLG in Pharma

Some companies that are working on NLG-based tools and solutions for the pharmaceutical field:

• Automation of Clinical Study Reports (CSRs) using AI (narrativa.com)
• The Role of NLG-based Reporting Automation in the Pharma Industry (phrazor.ai)
• The transformative impact of NLG on Pharma (arria.com)

NLG services for science writing

• SciNote Manuscript writer
• Writewise
• Writefull

Using NLG services for literature review

• Automation of literature screening using machine learning in medical evidence synthesis: a diagnostic test accuracy systematic review protocol
• A roadmap toward the automatic composition of systematic literature reviews

Please note: all texts on this blog are produced by me, Olle Bergman, or invited human writers. When robot-written sections are added to serve as examples or to demonstrate a point, this is clearly indicated.

My name is Olle, and I miss the wider discussion about how NLG technology (Natural Language Generation) will affect media, marketing, work-life, business, education, research, society, and—ultimately—the human condition.

To address that, I created this blog. My intention is to learn, explore, and discuss in order to help my readers gain insights, discover new possibilities (as well as threats), and be prepared for disruptive change—wherever that will take us. My approach will be open-minded and optimistic, but I will also give voice to my concerns.

Today, I work as a freelance writer in the fields of science, tech, and medicine. In addition, I also teach early-career scientists how to communicate more effectively. Finally, I am a non-fiction author in the field of popular history; in this professional role, I also evaluate the writing of others, being a member of one of Sweden’s most influential scholarship boards.

Please note: all texts on this blog are produced by me, Olle Bergman, or invited human writers. When robot-written sections are added to serve as examples or to demonstrate a point, this is clearly indicated.