In this paper, we describe how the differences between subtitle corpora, OpenSubtitles and TED, influence machine translation quality. In particular, we investigate whether statistical machine translation systems built on their basis can be used interchangeably. Our results show that OpenSubtiles and TED contain very different kinds of subtitles that warrant a subclassification of the genre. In...

This paper will present the preliminary findings of a pilot study. Participants were randomly assigned into one of two groups, those receiving instruction 1) with subtitles (redundant text); & 2) instruction without subtitles. A diagnostic test was used to categorize learners as 1) having symptoms consistent with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); or 2) non-ADHD learners. Two perf...

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are a variety of offered through the mode, paid or unpaid and has evolved as an excellent learning resource for students. The structure course design is mainly linear where there few video lectures provided by either professors several universities, people with expertise in particular subject. They usually graded on weekly basis quizzes peer-graded assignment...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether subtitles can facilitate language processing in English as a second (L2) and, if so, which would be more beneficial for hard-of-hearing students with Norwegian their first language. In total, 14 advanced learners L2 were recruited and tested on comprehension target vocabulary items based video material provided or comparison no (control condi...

We present a visual aid for the hearing impaired to enable access to internet videos. The visual tool is in the form of a time synchronized lip movement corresponding to the speech in the video which is embedded in the original internet video. Conventionally, access to the audio or speech, in a video, by the hearing impaired is provided by means of either text subtitles or sign language gesture...

This research aims to investigate the effect of watching movie with subtitles and without on speaking skills for tenth grade in Madrasah Aliyah Negeri 1 Madiun. The experimental conducted by using quasi-experimental design. students group given treatment movies subtitles, control watched subtitles. is random sampling technique. There are 12 participants from each group. some questions based the...

This study investigated the effects of four subtitle modes on listening comprehension TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) talks and academic vocabulary learning intermediate (non-English major) advanced (English English as foreign language (EFL) learners. A total 272 Chinese college sophomore students were randomly assigned to one experimental groups: Dual subtitles, no subtitles. The parti...

This study investigates how the concept of semantic relations is used in Translation Studies (TS) to solve problem non-equivalence. It specifically examines ‘superordrinates’ are translation process overcome lack hyponyms Target Text (TT). The attempts answer following questions: do contribute solving non-equivalence? And strategy ‘translating by using superordinate’ utilized Arabic subtitles? ...

In this paper, we introduce a new parallel corpus of subtitles of educational videos: the AMARA corpus for online educational content. We crawl a multilingual collection community generated subtitles, and present the results of processing the Arabic–English portion of the data, which yields a parallel corpus of about 2.6M Arabic and 3.9M English words. We explore different approaches to align t...