DeepSubQE: Quality estimation for subtitle translations

Quality estimation (QE) for tasks involving language data is hard owing to numerous aspects of natural language like variations in paraphrasing, style, grammar, etc. There can be multiple answers with varying levels of acceptability depending on the application at hand. In this work, we look at estimating quality of translations for video subtitles. We show how existing QE methods are inadequate and propose our method DeepSubQE as a system to estimate quality of translation given subtitles data for a pair of languages. We rely on various data augmentation strategies for automated labelling and synthesis for training. We create a hybrid network which learns semantic and syntactic features of bilingual data and compare it with only-LSTM and only-CNN networks. Our proposed network outperforms them by significant margin

A context sensitive real-time Spell Checker with language adaptability

We present a novel language adaptable spell checking system which detects spelling errors and suggests context sensitive corrections in real-time. We show that our system can be extended to new languages with minimal language-specific processing. Available literature majorly discusses spell checkers for English but there are no publicly available systems which can be extended to work for other languages out of the box. Most of the systems do not work in real-time. We explain the process of generating a language's word dictionary and n-gram probability dictionaries using Wikipedia-articles data and manually curated video subtitles. We present the results of generating a list of suggestions for a misspelled word. We also propose three approaches to create noisy channel datasets of real-world typographic errors. We compare our system with industry-accepted spell checker tools for 11 languages. Finally, we show the performance of our system on synthetic datasets for 24 languages.Comment: 7 pages, 6 image