Blogging birds: telling informative stories about the lives of birds from telemetric data

Abstract

The system transforms raw telemetric data into engaging and informative blog texts readily understood by all.

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Index Terms

• Applied computing

  • Life and medical sciences

• Computing methodologies

  • Machine learning

    • Machine learning approaches

• Hardware

  • Communication hardware, interfaces and storage

• Information systems