Machine Translation of Closed Captions
Machine Translation
A program for aligning sentences in bilingual corpora
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on using large corpora: I
Text alignment in a tool for translating revised documents
EACL '93 Proceedings of the sixth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Aligning sentences in parallel corpora
ACL '91 Proceedings of the 29th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Aligning a parallel English-Chinese corpus statistically with lexical criteria
ACL '94 Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Automatic identification of word translations from unrelated English and German corpora
ACL '99 Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Computational Linguistics
Improved statistical alignment models
ACL '00 Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Computer Speech and Language
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This paper describes a methodology for constructing aligned German-Chinese corpora from movie subtitles. The corpora will be used to train a special machine translation system with intention to automatically translate the subtitles between German and Chinese. Since the common length-based algorithm for alignment shows weakness on short spoken sentences, especially on those from different language families, this paper studies to use dynamic programming based on time-shift information in subtitles, and extends it with statistical lexical cues to align the subtitle. In our experiment with around 4,000 Chinese and German sentences, the proposed alignment approach yields 83.8% precision. Furthermore, it is unrelated to languages, and leads to a general method of parallel corpora building between different language families.