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In the next video Enrico Pigliacampo
who's a professional real-time intralingual subtitler
working in cultural contexts
will explain us how terminology is managed and implemented
in this specific context.
I hope you will enjoy it!
The working context I work in the most is cultural events
specially Film Festivals
and collateral events such as film markets, press conferences
conferences addressed to the film industry and so on.
When we receive a subtitling work the first steps we usually take
are connected to the identification of participants and topic of the event.
We do a general research on the topic and the life,
specially professional life of the participants
to have a general view of what the event is about.
Then we asked for scripts, schedule and any available document.
When we receive it we try to identify the terms
which may cause problems during the subtitling
names, titles of films, technical terms, and so on.
For example for a press conference or an awards ceremony
we make sure that we are able to transcribe names of speakers,
titles of the film which at this stage are always still in the original language,
and other related names that could be potentially mentioned.
So we must be able to spell correctly the names of a Chinese director
for example a Russian scriptwriter or a Korean actor
who might be named during an award acceptance speech.
The most difficult part is to identify what people will talk about.
It is not unusual that other topics come in during a cultural event
which are completely different from the main field of the event.
For example, politics or anecdotes from private life.
Identifying the names that may be mentioned is very difficult.
This is very important because misspelling of names
may cause embarrassing moments.
When we work for awards ceremonies for film festivals for example
we discover who are the winners during the event.
So, the preparation must cover all the films in competition.
Sometimes we are given the names few minutes before the ceremony starts
and we have little time to add the names in the software.
A higher terminology preparation is required when you work in a new project.
I'll make an example, you always work for Film Festivals and film industry
but you're asked to work for a Literary Tour Festival
and you accept the work.
You build your terminology thanks to your years of experience
with the industry, but literature has a completely different terminology
so if you only have to search for names and specific terms for a Film Festival
in the new field of literature you will have to make a research
also into the most used terms of this specific field.
We usually request all available materials,
schedule, scripts, press material, leaflets and so on.
Some cultural events for example ceremonies during Film Festivals
follow a script because they are broadcasted on TV
or streamed live.
The script is very useful for two purposes
First, because we can create semi live subtitles
for the scripted parts of the ceremony
and use real-time subtitling for the parts which are not in the scripts.
For example, acceptance speeches by awards winner.
Secondly, we use the script to identify the participants
and all the terms that will be used during the event
and that may be repeated in the parts that require real-time subtitling
we don't have specific tools for terminology.
We usually use search engines
and create a list of terms with Microsoft excel.
Film databases such as imdb.com are very useful too
and of course the catalog of the event.
The most difficult types of terms in cultural events are usually names.
For example ceremonies in Film Festivals
have a lot of names of actors, directors, but also associations,
companies, sponsors and so on.
Usually they are not identified by speech recognition software
and you lose a lot of time if you have to type them all.
So it is important to build a terminology with these terms
and also create macros to go faster while they're speaking.
We always keep updated our list of most useful terms
and also the materials we receive.
We also add terms which may come up during the event which cause problems
to avoid the same issues next time they are used.