Apologies are sources of problems in the process of Persian-English subtitling as they are performed with variant forms and functions in these two languages and cultures. ‘Ta’ārof apologies’-Persian apologies which are extended to show politeness-creates more serious obstacles for the subtitlers. These difficulties root in the culture-specific contexts in which they are used as well as the cult...

The Portland State Aerospace Society (PSAS) is a small, low-budget amateur aerospace group. PSAS is currently developing medium-sized sub-orbital rockets with the eventual goal of inserting nanosatellites (satellites that weigh less than 10 kg) into orbit. Because achieving orbit requires a navigation system able to guide the rocket along an orbital trajectory, PSAS is pioneering an open source...

Although most people think of Text Messaging as a recent phenomenon, they do not realize that amateur radio has had text messaging for over a century. This was recently well demonstrated on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno when two old hams using CW beat the socks off of two hip teenagers using text messaging on their cell phones. [0] Even though CW has yielded some turf to newer digital modes, a...

This paper discusses results of the recent experiments, which intention was to test security in accessing e-mail servers and radio relay systems within the amateur radio digital infrastructure. There are many opportunities in available safety measures, which support the integrity of user's and system administrator's credentials. This work suggests various methods which aim is to bridge the gap ...

We compare machine learning approaches for sentence length reduction for automatic generation of subtitles for deaf and hearing-impaired people with a method which relies on hand-crafted deletion rules. We describe building the necessary resources for this task: a parallel corpus of examples of news broadcasts of the Flemish VRT broadcasting corporation, and a Dutch shallow parser based on the ...

boxing is the favorite sport for adult adolescents and lay people. but the harshness of this sport and the possibility of injury to the head has led to many criticism from religious, medical and athletic assciations. the purpose of the present study was to answer this question: does amateur boxing lead to neuropsychological impairments ? in order to study the short-term and long-term efects of ...

Audiovisual Translation (AVT), and in particular subtitling, has been recognised as an area that could potentially benefit from the introduction of machine translation (followed by post-editing) [1],[2],[10],[15],[27],[28]. In recent years the demands on subtitlers have increased, while the payment to subtitlers and time allotted to produce the subtitles have both decreased. Therefore this mark...

This article describes a large-scale evaluation of the use of Statistical Machine Translation for professional subtitling. The work was carried out within the FP7 EU-funded project SUMAT and involved two rounds of evaluation: a quality evaluation and a measure of productivity gain/loss. We present the SMT systems built for the project and the corpora they were trained on, which combine professi...