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Hello and welcome back

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the short video that you are about to see
is an explanation about how terminology

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is managed and implemented

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in real-time intralingual subtitling practices

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Carlo Eugeni is a parliamentary 
live subtitler at the Rome Capital.

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He will provide us with an overview

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about how terminology relates 
to the real-time subtitling practices

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I hope you will enjoy it

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Terminology, 
well this is an important question

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because it comes to the editing issue. 

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To me there are three steps, 
three moments,

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three stages of editing:
pre-editing, peri-editing and post editing.

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Pre-editing is something 
that fits your question,

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Meaning that when I know that...

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Before starting a session 
we are given the agenda

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and we are given the documents 
that they will discuss.

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So we we quickly read these documents

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and see what kind of terminology
is used.

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For example a lot of toponyms 
are used in city council meetings  

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but also references 
to national legislation.

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So all this terminology 
is introduced in the software

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before we go on air.

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So we don't need to type them 
when we encounter them,

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at the same time 
we don't make the effort

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of understanding phonetically 
what is said

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because we already know 
that a toponymy will be pronounced.

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Peri-editing is an important step
of the respeaking process

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If I know that my machine 
is not going to recognise a given word,  

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I prefer using other words 
to avoid problems.

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For example the case of foreign names, foreign words

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most of times 
you have an Italian equivalent

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So I prefer using the Italian equivalent 

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not because I'm a purist

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but because the machine better recognises those words.

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the same is true for short words.

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With respeaking short words 
are more subject

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of being misrecognized.

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So what we do is we try to use
longer synonyms,

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which is maybe counter intuitive

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because what we normally do 
is to reduce the content

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but in the case of single words

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we may prefer using a longer synonym than a monosyllable for example

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if this allows us to have 
a better recognition accuracy.

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Ending the question of peri-editing

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in case I have foreign words 
which I have to have in my subtitles

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For example last week,

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the council meeting dedicated

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renamed the auditorium in Rome 
after Ennio Morricone, who died.

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So when talking about his life 
several English proper names came along.

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Such as the Grammy awards, 
the Golden Globes, that Morricone won.

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In these cases 
you cannot you don't have a synonym

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so you have to stop 
and type them.

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Unless you have a tool 
that some software houses provide

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which search the Google search terminology database

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and you more easily 
have access to that word.

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But in that case 
you have to type the word

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or unless you're a live editor 
knows how to deal with that.

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