Retrieve-edit-rerank is a text generation framework composed of three steps: retrieving for sentences using the input sentence as a query, generating multiple output sentence candidates, and selecting the final output sentence from these candidates. This simple approach has outperformed other existing and more complex methods. This paper focuses on the retrieving and the reranking steps. In the retrieving step, we propose retrieving similar target language sentences from a target language monolingual translation memory using language-independent sentence embeddings generated by mSBERT or LaBSE. We demonstrate that this approach significantly outperforms existing methods that use monolingual inter-sentence similarity measures such as edit distance, which is only applicable to a parallel translation memory. In the reranking step, we propose a new reranking score for selecting the best sentences, which considers both the log-likelihood of each candidate and the sentence embeddings based similarity between the input and the candidate. We evaluated the proposed method for English-to-Japanese translation on the ASPEC and English-to-French translation on the EU Bookshop Corpus (EUBC). The proposed method significantly exceeded the baseline in BLEU score, especially observing a 1.4-point improvement in the EUBC dataset over the original Retrieve-Edit-Rerank method.

Recently, there has been a growing interest in pretraining models in the field of natural language processing. As opposed to training models from scratch, pretrained models have been shown to produce superior results in low-resource translation tasks. In this paper, we introduced the use of pretrained seq2seq models for preordering and translation tasks. We utilized manual word alignment data and mBERT-based generated word alignment data for training preordering and compared the effectiveness of various types of mT5 and mBART models for preordering. For the translation task, we chose mBART as our baseline model and evaluated several input manners. Our approach was evaluated on the Asian Language Treebank dataset, consisting of 20,000 parallel data in Japanese, English and Hindi, where Japanese is either on the source or target side. We also used in-house 3,000 parallel data in Chinese and Japanese. The results indicated that mT5-large trained with manual word alignment achieved a preordering performance exceeding 0.9 RIBES score on Ja-En and Ja-Zh pairs. Moreover, our proposed approach significantly outperformed the baseline model in most translation directions of Ja-En, Ja-Zh, and Ja-Hi pairs in at least one of BLEU/COMET scores.

The purpose of this paper is to construct a model for the generation of sophisticated headlines pertaining to stock price fluctuation articles, derived from the articles’ content. With respect to this headline generation objective, this paper solves three distinct tasks: in addition to the task of generating article headlines, two other tasks of extracting security names, and ascertaining the trajectory of stock prices, whether they are rising or declining. Regarding the headline generation task, we also revise the task as the model utilizes the outcomes of the security name extraction and rise/decline determination tasks, thereby for the purpose of preventing the inclusion of erroneous security names. We employed state-of-the-art pre-trained models from the field of natural language processing, fine-tuning these models for each task to enhance their precision. The dataset utilized for fine-tuning comprises a collection of articles delineating the rise and decline of stock prices. Consequently, we achieved remarkably high accuracy in the dual tasks of security name extraction and stock price rise or decline determination. For the headline generation task, a significant portion of the test data yielded fitting headlines.