Bywood, Lindsay, Georgakopoulou, Panayota and Etchegoyhen, Thierry 2017. Embracing the threat: machine translation as a solution for subtitling. Perspectives. 25 (3), pp. 492-508. https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676x.2017.1291695
| Title | Embracing the threat: machine translation as a solution for subtitling |
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| Type | Journal article |
| Authors | Bywood, Lindsay, Georgakopoulou, Panayota and Etchegoyhen, Thierry |
| Abstract | Recent decades have brought significant changes in the subtitling industry, both in terms of workflow and in the context of the market for audiovisual translation. Machine translation (MT), whilst in regular use in the traditional localisation industry, has not seen a significant uptake in the subtitling arena. The SUMAT project, an EU-funded project which ran from 2011 to 2014 had as its aim the building and evaluation of viable MT solutions for the subtitling industry in nine bidirectional language pairs. As part of the project, a year-long large-scale evaluation of the output of the resulting MT engines was carried out by trained subtitlers. This paper reports on the impetus behind the investigation of MT for subtitling, previous work in this field, and discusses some of the results of this evaluation, in particular an attempt to measure the extent of productivity gain or loss for subtitlers using machine translation as opposed to working in the traditional way. The paper examines opportunities and limitations of MT as a viable option for work of this nature and makes recommendations for the training of subtitle post-editors. |
| Keywords | statistical machine translation |
| subtitling | |
| audiovisual translation | |
| SUMAT project | |
| productivity | |
| Journal | Perspectives |
| Journal citation | 25 (3), pp. 492-508 |
| ISSN | 0907-676X |
| Year | 2017 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
| Accepted author manuscript | File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676x.2017.1291695 |
| Web address (URL) | https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2017.1291695 |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | 03 Jul 2017 |
| Published online | 27 Mar 2017 |
| Funder | Council of Europe/European Commission |