In this paper, we present a freely available corpus of human and automatic translations of subtitles. The corpus comprises the original English subtitles (SRC), both human (HT) and machine translations (MT) into German, as well as post-editions (PE) of the MT output. HT and MT are annotated with errors. Moreover, human evaluation is included in HT, MT, and PE. Such a corpus is a valuable resour...

Despite the central place occupied by language transfer of audiovisual products, particularly in the European cinema and television sector, audience perception of both dubbing and subtitling is a largely neglected field of study and research. When, however, we start looking into the available research on the perception of translated humor and, more specifically, of the perception of humor as re...

Subtitles are crucial for video content understanding. However, a large amount of videos have only burned-in, hardcoded subtitles that prevent re-editing, translation, etc. In this paper, we construct deep-learning-based system the inverse conversion burned-in subtitle to file and an inpainted video, by coupling three deep neural networks (CTPN, CRNN, EdgeConnect). We evaluated performance prop...

We describe a system to rapidly generate high-quality closed captions and subtitles for live broadcasted TV shows, using automated components, namely Automatic Speech Recognition and Machine Translation. The human stays in the loop for quality assurance and optional postediting. We also describe how the system feeds the human edits and corrections back into the different components for improvem...

The fundamental dilemma that always faces Arabic subtitlers of English films is whether to maintain the Western cultural features or find equivalents make content more accessible Arab viewer. Building upon Venuti’s (1995; 1998) distinction between domestication and foreignization methods translation, this article aims explore effect different types subtitling strategies used in translating lite...

In the last two decades, Audiovisual Translation (AVT) studies have become of interest for Second Language Acquisition (SLA) researchers, particularly regarding use subtitles in language learning activities. This paper will present an experiment aimed at investigating role subtitled 'input enhancement' SLA. The study involved a group Italian native students English as Foreign (EFL) from Milan U...

This project explores how deaf children read subtitles on television. The participants – recruited from years 3 to 6 of a mainstream school with a hearing impairment unit – were exposed to both broadcast and enhanced subtitles and their performances were compared. In particular, the focus is on identifying enhancements that can help children to understand subtitle content and to recognise new o...