Machine translation of TV subtitles for large scale production

Martin Volk; Rico Sennrich; Christian Hardmeier; Frida Tidström; Ventsislav Zhechev

Machine translation of TV subtitles for large scale production

Martin Volk
, Rico Sennrich
, Christian Hardmeier
, Frida Tidström
, Ventsislav Zhechev (Editor)

University of Zurich
Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Stockholm University
Dublin City University

Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

Abstract

This paper describes our work on building and employing Statistical Machine Translation systems for TV subtitles in Scandinavia. We have built translation systems for Danish, English, Norwegian and Swedish. They are used in daily subtitle production and translate large volumes. As an example we report on our evaluation results for three TV genres. We discuss our lessons learned in the system development process which shed interesting light on the practical use of Machine Translation technology.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop “Bringing MT to the User: Research on Integrating MT in the Translation Industry” (JEC ’10)
Number of pages	10
Place of Publication	Denver, Colorado
Publication date	1 Nov 2010
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2010
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

statistical machine translation
subtitling
scandinavian languages
mt evaluation
deployment and lessons learned

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Proceedings of the Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop “Bringing MT to the User: Research on Integrating MT in the Translation Industry” (JEC ’10). Denver, Colorado, 2010.

Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

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