Before designing an algorithm it is important to first understand what the problem is. Algorithms can be designed using pseudocode or a flowchart, and the standard notations of each should be known.

If this kind of writing can be done by a machine that doesn’t have a single thought in its head, what does that tell us about what we’ve been asking of students.

The algorithm then returns the given word, its part of speech, and its lemma, or base-form. Sentiment analysis is done using VADER: Valence Aware Dictionary and sEntiment Reasoner.

Other clients favor bloggy snarkiness. "It's no more difficult to write an irreverent story than it is to write a straightforward, AP-style story," says Larry Adams, Narrative Science's VP of product.

A few years ago I used an algorithm to help me write a science fiction story. Adam Hammond, an English professor, and Julian Brooke, a computer scientist, had created a program called SciFiQ, and ...

The question online marketers should now be asking themselves is this: Should I do as Google asks and only write for humans now?

In essence, algorithmic marking might reward the writing of “bullshit” – text written with little regard for the subject matter and solely to fulfil the algorithm’s criteria.

The Opinion Pages Writing Is Lost in Computerized Algorithms Trey Ellis is a novelist, screenwriter, playwright and Associate Professor at Columbia University. Updated January 28, 2015, 4:41 PM ...