Automatic Generation of Television News Shows from Given Program Information Using TVML

Abstract

Research into “content handling techniques”, that is, automatic computer-based methods of generating and processing content is becoming increasingly important.We have developed the TV program Making Language (TVML) to enable such content handling techniques, and mainly for use in the television program production field.
In this paper, we explain a method for the automatic production of programs by using TVML.We have developed a method for using XML to describe the details of programs.We have also designed a model for the automatic production of programs which is based on current production processes used for TV programs.We then combined method and model in a prototype software application, in which a user is simply required to input program data to automatically generate news programs.