Teaching Subtitling Routines

Quality in Subtitling

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System for Rapid Subtitling

Sentence Compression For Automatic Subtitling

This paper investigates sentence compression for automatic subtitle generation using supervised machine learning. We present a method for sentence compression as well as discuss generation of training data from compressed Finnish sentences, and different approaches to the problem. The method we present outperforms state-of-the-art baseline in both automatic and human evaluation. On real data, 4...

Sign Language Subtitling by Highly Comprehensible “semantroids”*

We introduce a new method of sign language subtitling aimed at young deaf children who have not acquired reading skills yet, and can communicate only via signs. The method is based on: 1) the recently developed concept of “semantroidTM” (an animated 3D avatar limited to head and hands); 2) the design, development, and psychophysical evaluation of a highly comprehensible model of the semantroid;...

Automatic Multilingual Subtitling in the eTITLE project

This paper presents the Multilingual Translation Service of eTITLE, a European eContent project, which has produced tools to assist in the multilingual subtitling of audiovisual material through the web. The eTITLE Translation Service combines state-of-the-art Machine translation and Translation memories, which may be tailored to the customer needs. The user can choose to use only Machine Trans...