Tohoku University

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Ntt Corporation

Naoaki Okazaki

Sho Takase

Shun Kiyono

Kentaro Inui

Jun Suzuki

Disclosed is a natural language processing technique according to a neural network of high interpretive ability. One embodiment of the present disclosure relates to an apparatus including a trained neural network into which first natural language text is input and that is trained to output second natural language text and alignment information, the second natural language text being in accordance with a predetermined purpose corresponding to the first natural language text, and the alignment information indicating, for each part of the second natural language text, which part of the first natural language text is a basis of information for generation; and an analyzing unit configured to output, upon input text being input into the trained neural network, a predicted result of output text in accordance with a predetermined purpose, and alignment information indicating, for each part of the predicted result of the output text, which part of the input text is a basis of information for generation.

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Miyagi, Japan

Naoaki Okazaki