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 Translation, only a certain Translation Memory (or all available) or to use an integration of both approaches, which is the default option. In this latter option, only if no translation above a certain threshold is found in the Translation Memory, the original sentence is Machine Translated. The language pairs that have been developed in the framework of the eTITLE project are: EnglishSpanish, Spanish-English, English-Czech, Catalan-Spanish, Spanish-Catalan English-Catalan and Catalan-English.