An Online Encyclopedia that Writes Itself:
Machine reading effort builds dossiers on people and organizations from translated news sources.
They look a bit like communally written Wikipedia pages. But these articles—concise profiles of people and organizations, complete with lists of connected organizations, people, and events—were in fact written by computers, in a new bid by the Pentagon to build machines that can follow global news events and provide intelligence analysts with useful summaries in close to real time."