Patent ID: 8494944

Claim:
A method of generating natural language news-based stories as part of a display with a plurality of natural news-based stories, the method comprising the steps of: using a management tool to select items of interest within an event data database to create a portfolio made from the items of interest; selecting data of the portfolio from the items of interest using a computer interface, wherein some data is in numerical format; offering a choice on the computer interface between creating a strategies page where the data is displayed in the numerical format as part of the strategies page or creating a natural language news stories page where the data is displayed as part of a plurality of natural language news stories, wherein the natural language news stories as part of the natural language news stories page each including a date of publication, a story rewritten in natural language using a template from a news brief with a news-generating algorithm with sentence and paragraph construction to simulate natural language from the numerical format data selected from a plurality of templates each with input variables and at least a data field from the data, and a source of origin of the news brief; wherein the algorithm with sentence and paragraph reconstruction includes a series of boilerplate sentences to be repeated in a round-robin method; wherein terms part of the boilerplate sentences are varied using a parsing table; and creating and displaying either the strategies page or the natural language news stories page to a portfolio user.