{"id":33832,"date":"2018-03-05T08:48:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T07:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.munich-startup.net\/?p=33832"},"modified":"2020-10-07T14:10:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T12:10:33","slug":"7-questions-reportexpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.munich-startup.net\/en\/33832\/7-questions-reportexpress\/","title":{"rendered":"The world's first robo-football editor \u2014 7 questions for\u2026 ReportExpress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone is talking about robot journalism, but so far there are hardly any practical applications. One of the few is ReportExpress<\/a>: The app creates reports of football matches on your smartphone. We asked the Munich-based startup our 7 questions.
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1. Who are you and what do you do? Please briefly introduce yourself and your app!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rafael (38) and I, Gabriel (35), met while studying in Munich. Even back then, we were connected by the topic of football and the question of how to raise the underrepresented reporting in amateur football to a higher level using digital means. So, the media informatics specialist and the communications scientist\/sociologist sat down together and developed a concept for an app that could generate fully automated football match reports by simply pressing action and decision buttons. These should, if possible, also meet sports journalistic standards and be stylistically and grammatically error-free: A mammoth task! After almost three years of tinkering, it was finally accomplished: The first app capable of creating user-generated robot match reports was born and launched on the Android market on October 2, 2017, and on December 12, 2017, for iOS devices.<\/p>\n

2. But that's been around for a long time!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not at all! That was our motivation. In the field of robot journalism, such an app is a complete novelty. There are already companies that work with computer-generated texts \u2013 including in football. But so far \u2013 according to our research, there is no app anywhere in the world that creates user-generated football match reports with continuous text. This is also the major advantage of our app over the competition: By clicking on the relevant fields, users decide which match scenes should be included in the reports and how precisely. This way, qualitative aspects of a football match can be captured and match scenes can be reproduced down to the smallest detail. The app user (spectator, fan, club reporter) clicks on action and decision buttons and, at the final whistle, receives high-quality continuous text that realistically depicts the relevant match action. For example, a goal can be described in extreme detail, or the preparatory work for a goal can be accurately reproduced. User-generated computer texts are therefore always more accurate, more detailed, more sophisticated, more informative, higher quality, and faster.<\/p>\n