Context-driven automatic bilingual movie subtitle alignment
Andreas Tsiartas, Prasanta Ghosh, Panayiotis Georgiou, Shrikanth Shri Narayanan · 2009
Movie subtitle alignment is a potentially useful approach for deriving automatically parallel bilingual/multilingual spoken language data for automatic speech translation. In this paper, we consider the movie subtitle alignment task. We propose a distance metric between utterances of different languages based on lexical features derived from bilingual dictionaries. We use the dynamic time warping algorithm to obtain the best alignment. The best F-score of ! 0.713 is obtained using the proposed approach. Index Terms :s ubtitles alignment, dynamic time warping