A method and an apparatus for generating a journal, which can implement automatic generation of a journal based on data from various sources. The method includes: obtaining a source data set and a journal description data set corresponding to the source data set; calculating an alignment probability between each source data sequence and each journal description data sequence to obtain an alignment probability set; calculating a probability that each journal description data sequence occurs in the journal description data set to obtain an occurrence probability set; determining, according to the alignment probability set and the occurrence probability set and from each journal description data sequence, a target journal description data sequence corresponding to a source data sequence to be translated, and translating the target journal description data sequence into a journal description text.