Ljubljana, Slovenia
23 - 25 April 2014
Open Education for a Multicultural World
Date
22 April 2014
Time
09:00 – 15:30
Registration
Free
Place
The Grand Hotel Union (OCWC Global Conference venue)
Motivation: How do you translate and transcribe 20,000 academic talks?
transLectures is a European project whose academic and industrial partners represent the fields of language technologies, machine learning and audiovisual services. Online collections of video material are fast becoming a staple feature of the Internet and a key educational resource. What we are working on at transLectures is a set of easy-to-use tools that will allow users to add multilingual subtitles to these videos. In doing so, they will make the content of these videos available to a much wider audience in a way that is cost-effective and sustainable over the vast collections of online video lectures being generated. Its case studies are VideoLectures.Net and poliMedia, and the languages/language pairs being targeted in this project are EN, ES and SL for transcription, and EN<>ES, EN<>SL, EN>FR and EN>DE for translation. The end result are subtitles -transcriptions and translations- and, in a later phase, personalisation, contextualisation, descriptions, time alignment, fragmentation, recommendation and more for a dataset of 20k academic talks.
Important: Participants interested in testing the system are kindly asked to bring their own laptops.
Extra: The transLectures-UPV toolkit (TLK) is an open source (Apache License 2.0) set of tools for automatic speech recognition (ASR) developed at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) by the transLectures-UPV Team. The research leading to this toolkit has received funding under the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement nº 287755.
Program
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8:45 – 9:00 |
Welcome |
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9:00 – 10:00 |
Invited speaker: Highly Scaleable Lecture Capture using Open-Source Presenting two key open source technologies that have enabled this university to build a highly scalable lecture recording system. |
Stuart Phillipson Media technologies coordinator at the University of Manchester |
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10:00 – 10:30 |
Coffee break |
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10:30 – 11:15 |
transLectures: quality subtitles for video lectures An overview of this EU-funded project to develop low-cost, accurate and multilingual subtitles for educational video, and what it means for you. |
Alfons Juan Project coordinator and tenure lecturer at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) |
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11:15 – 12:00 |
Domain adaptation for subtitles you can take seriously Custom adapting transcription/translation models for specific use with educational videos is one of transLectures’ main lines of research, and is yielding great results. |
Muhammed Ali Tahir Researcher at Rheinisch- Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen |
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12:00 – 13:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30 – 14:15 |
VideoLectures.NET and transLectures The largest of the project’s case studies and an award- winning video lecture repository, Rihtar talks integration, user evaluations, and impact. |
Matjaz Rihtar |
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14:15 – 15:00 |
Integrating transLectures into poliMedia poliMedia is a lecture capture and distribution system developed at the UPV; it is also one of the transLectures case studies. Turró introduces the tL player. |
Carlos Turró Head of media services at the UPV |
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15:00 – 15:30 |
Questions and closing comments |
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15:30 |
End |
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