“长句翻译一直是机器翻译的难题。本文根据汉语中相当数量的逗号(句内标点)和句号(句间标点)可相互转化的特点,提出”隐性句号”(可转化为句号的逗号)和”隐性逗号”(可转化为逗号的句号)概念,并实现其自动识别,以将汉语长句变为短句用于汉英机器翻译。为此,首先通过人工与半监督学习结合方法构建了一个隐性句逗数据集,实现了基于预训练模型的隐性句逗识别方法,其中性能最好的HierarchicalBERT作为后续应用模型。进而,实现了基于隐性句逗识别的汉英机器翻译方法。在WMT2018(新闻)和WMT2023(文学)测试语料上基于预训练机器翻译模型的实验表明,对于汉语长句的英译,本文方法相比基准翻译的BLEU值整体有所提高,而且在相对稳健机器翻译模型上,呈现为句子越长本文方法效果越明显。”

To explore how humans can best leverage LLMs for writing and how interacting with these models affects feelings of ownership and trust in the writing process, we compared common human-AI interaction types (e.g., guiding system, selecting from system outputs, post-editing outputs) in the context of LLM-assisted news headline generation. While LLMs alone can generate satisfactory news headlines, on average, human control is needed to fix undesirable model outputs. Of the interaction methods, guiding and selecting model output added the most benefit with the lowest cost (in time and effort). Further, AI assistance did not harm participants’ perception of control compared to freeform editing.

Automatic summarization methods are efficient but can suffer from low quality. In comparison, manual summarization is expensive but produces higher quality. Can humans and AI collaborate to improve summarization performance? In similar text generation tasks (e.g., machine translation), human-AI collaboration in the form of “post-editing” AI-generated text reduces human workload and improves the quality of AI output. Therefore, we explored whether post-editing offers advantages in text summarization. Specifically, we conducted an experiment with 72 participants, comparing post-editing provided summaries with manual summarization for summary quality, human efficiency, and user experience on formal (XSum news) and informal (Reddit posts) text. This study sheds valuable insights on when post-editing is useful for text summarization: it helped in some cases (e.g., when participants lacked domain knowledge) but not in others (e.g., when provided summaries include inaccurate information). Participants’ different editing strategies and needs for assistance offer implications for future human-AI summarization systems.