Pre-processing closed captions for machine translation
Davide Turcato, Fred P. Popowich, Paul McFetridge, Devlan Nicholson, Janine Toole · 2000
We describe an approach to Machine Translation of transcribed speech, as found in closed captions. We discuss how the colloquial nature and input format peculiarities of closed captions are dealt with in a pre-processing pipeline that prepares the input for effective processing by a core MT system. In particular, we describe components for proper name recognition and input segmentation. We evaluate the contribution of such modules to the system performance. The described methods have been implemented on an MT system for translating English closed captions to Spanish and Portuguese.