The increasing production of audiovisual texts online has led to the growing use Machine Translation (MT) in its raw form facilitate multilingual access. In this study, we examine accuracy Google Translate’s English–Arabic subtitles and their comprehensibility among female users through a case analysis Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). We also seek contribute research on MT by providing empi...

To improve information retrieval from films we attempt to segment movies into scenes using the subtitles. Film subtitles differ significantly in nature from other texts; we describe some of the challenges of working with movie subtitles. We test a few modifications to the TextTiling algorithm, in order to get an effective segmentation.

The aim of the study is to analyse how English form address you translated into Polish in subtitles. investigation embedded framework (im)politeness theory. data used for comprise two types non-professional renderings: amateur subtitles (fansubbing) and written by sophomore students Philology. proves that fansubbers’ have a tendency foreignise translation ignoring sociocultural norms terms addr...

Many Deaf and Hearing Impaired people use subtitles to gain access to audio content on television and film presentations. Although subtitles tell the viewer what is being said they fail to communicate how it is being said. This “emotional gap” experienced by viewer’s highlights a significant drawback to current subtitling especially when used for learning by the Deaf. In this paper we introduce...

We describe efforts towards getting better resources for EnglishArabic machine translation of spoken text. In particular, we look at movie subtitles as a unique, rich resource, as subtitles in one language often get translated into other languages. Movie subtitles are not new as a resource and have been explored in previous research; however, here we create a much larger bi-text (the biggest to...

This study aimed to investigate the effects of subtitles in the context of authentic material on second language comprehension and potentially, second language acquisition for Norwegian learners of English. Participants in the study were 49 17-year-old students and 65 16-year-old students, who were all native speakers of Norwegian learning English as an L2 in high school. Both age groups were d...