So, this is kinda wild:
http://news.mit.edu/2020/automated-rewrite-wikipedia-articles-0212
"A system created by MIT researchers could be used to automatically update
factual inconsistencies in Wikipedia articles, reducing time and effort
spent by human editors who now do the task manually... In a paper being
presented at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the
researchers describe a text-generating system that pinpoints and replaces
specific information in relevant Wikipedia sentences, while keeping the
language similar to how humans write and edit."
The paper, which I have not read yet, is called "Automatic Fact-guided
Sentence Modification" and the preprint is here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.13838
(Note: I'm the computer science librarian at MIT, but I wasn't aware of
this project before I saw the news story. I may go and talk to them about
it though!)
cheers,
Phoebe
--
* I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers <at>
gmail.com *