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Machine translation of TV subtitles for large scale production

  • Martin Volk(Author)
    ,
  • Rico Sennrich(Author)
    ,
  • Christian Hardmeier(Author)
    ,
  • Frida Tidström(Author)
    ,
  • 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
 Peer-review

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Output type

Research Output:
Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter
Article in proceedings
 Peer-review

Original language

English

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/11/2010

Publication status

Published - 01/11/2010

Place of publication

Denver, Colorado

Publication IDs

  • ORCID: /0000-0002-6103-7275/work/106363218

Host publication title

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

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.

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