1. Background This study was prompted by three independent developments. One is a widely publicized criticism of the Japanese subtitles of the film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring the first episode in the J.R.R.Tolkien trilogy. Shortly after the film's release in Japan in March 2002, complaints about the quality of the subtitles from Japanese fans led to petitions to the film'...

The BBC has a very large archive of programmes, covering a wide range of topics. This archive holds a significant part of the BBC’s institutional memory and is an important part of the cultural history of the United Kingdom and the rest of the world. These programmes, or parts of them, can help provide valuable context and background for current news events. However the BBC’s archive catalogue ...

The value of responsibility is very important to be taught early childhood because it will shape their character and attitude in the future. If young children lack responsibility, they may not able own up mistakes, apologize when make take care or others' enjoy assignments given them by parents teachers. purpose this research identify values responsibility. method used was descriptive qualitati...

INTRODUCTION Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal disease characterized by progressive degeneration of the motor neurons. It is difficult to define the severity of the clinical findings of this destructive disease owing to its rapid progression, which presents serious alterations in a short time even in the same patient. The present study was designed to evaulate the validity of the T...

INTRODUCTION Deaf are not able to communicate with other community members due to hearing impaired. Providing health care for deaf is more complex because of their communication problems. Multimedia tools can provide multiple tangible concepts (movie, subtitles, and sign language) for the deaf and hard of hearing. In this study, identify the priority health needs of deaf students in primary sch...

Films at the cinema, at home or on the computer screen are a fundamental part of today’s entertainment culture. The careful listening and watching of foreign films with or without subtitles is often used as an aid for the learning of foreign languages. This paper presents the ongoing development of an entertainment/learning computer based DVD subsystem for the home environment that has been ext...

We investigate animal recognition models learned from wildlife video documentaries by using the weak supervision of the textual subtitles. This is a challenging setting, since i) the animals occur in their natural habitat and are often largely occluded and ii) subtitles are to a great degree complementary to the visual content, providing a very weak supervisory signal. This is in contrast to mo...