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Metadata Cataloging, Storage, And Retrieval Of Multilingual Motion Picture Subtitles: An Xml Digital Library, Helena Marvin, Kimmy Szeto
Metadata Cataloging, Storage, And Retrieval Of Multilingual Motion Picture Subtitles: An Xml Digital Library, Helena Marvin, Kimmy Szeto
Helena Marvin
The popularity of motion pictures in digital form has seen a dramatic increase in recent years, and the global entertainment market has driven demands for subtitles in multiple languages. This paper investigates the informational potential of aggregating a corpus of multilingual subtitles for a digital library. Subtitles are extracted from commercial DVD releases and downloaded from the internet. These subtitles and their bibliographic metadata are then incorporated in an XML-based database structure. A digital library prototype is developed to provide full-text search and browse of the subtitle text with single- or parallel-language displays. The resulting product includes a set of …