scholarly journals Quality Control of Subtitles

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristijan Nikolic

Quality control of subtitles is a relatively unresearched field, even though it has a significant influence on the overall quality, and thus viewers’ experience of subtitles. It is carried out in different ways: various language service providers and broadcasters have different procedures, for instance, it sometimes solely involves proofreading. An online questionnaire has been distributed among professionals involved in the production chain of subtitles: broadcasters, streaming and video-on-demand services, vendors also known as language service providers, subtitlers, quality controllers and proofreaders.The hope is that this report will enable professionals involved in quality control of subtitles to further enhance their quality control procedures. The results of this research could also be used in experimental investigation of viewers’ perception of quality in subtitling by using the same research methods applied in this study. Lay Summary We do not know much about the quality control of subtitles on which many viewers depend to be able to follow TV content in foreign languages, or because they are deaf or hard-of-hearing. I conducted research by means of an online questionnaire among professionals and organisations involved in the production of subtitles to check how and whether they ensure viewers get subtitles of the highest possible quality. One of the main findings of the survey is that all professionals involved in the subtitling process think that the quality of subtitles is important, and that freelance subtitlers largely don’t think their clients pay enough attention to subtitling quality. The questionnaire was sent to TV and streaming broadcasters, agencies that work as intermediaries between broadcasters and subtitlers, quality controllers and proofreaders. Based on the findings of this survey, I have recommended several steps that can be taken to ensure better quality subtitles.

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 1691-1705 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth E. Kunkel ◽  
David R. Easterling ◽  
Kenneth Hubbard ◽  
Kelly Redmond ◽  
Karen Andsager ◽  
...  

Abstract A recent comprehensive effort to digitize U.S. daily temperature and precipitation data observed prior to 1948 has resulted in a major enhancement in the computer database of the records of the National Weather Service’s cooperative observer network. Previous digitization efforts had been selective, concentrating on state or regional areas. Special quality control procedures were applied to these data to enhance their value for climatological analysis. The procedures involved a two-step process. In the first step, each individual temperature and precipitation data value was evaluated against a set of objective screening criteria to flag outliers. These criteria included extreme limits and spatial comparisons with nearby stations. The following data were automatically flagged: 1) all precipitation values exceeding 254 mm (10 in.) and 2) all temperature values whose anomaly from the monthly mean for that station exceeded five standard deviations. Additional values were flagged based on differences with nearby stations; in this case, metrics were used to rank outliers so that the limited resources were concentrated on those values most likely to be invalid. In the second step, each outlier was manually assessed by climatologists and assigned one of the four following flags: valid, plausible, questionable, or invalid. In excess of 22 400 values were manually assessed, of which about 48% were judged to be invalid. Although additional manual assessment of outliers might further improve the quality of the database, the procedures applied in this study appear to have been successful in identifying the most flagrant errors.


Author(s):  
Carl-Henric de Verdier ◽  
Torgny Groth ◽  
James O. Westgard

Author(s):  
Tuan Anh Tran

There is a gap between 3D Printing’s fast pace of development and the acceptance of 3D Printing technologies by other industries and applications. This hesitation comes mostly from unanswered questions about the consistency, reproducibility, and quality of 3D printed products. Although the list of excellent examples demonstrating its potential keeps expanding, a wide and thorough adoption of the technology requires crucial, yet currently missing elements including consensus standards, quality control procedures, and measuring methodologies. Progress in developing these elements, however, has been rather limited.


Author(s):  
Artur Miguel Arsenio

Telecommunication operators need to deliver their clients not only new profitable services, but also good quality and interactive content. Some of this content, such as advertisements, generate revenues, while other contents generate revenues associated to a service, such as Video on Demand (VoD). One of the main concerns for current multimedia platforms is therefore the provisioning of content to end-users that generates revenue. Alternatives currently being explored include user-content generation as the content source (the prosumer model). However, a large source of revenue has pretty much been neglected, which corresponds to the capability of transforming, adapting content produced either by Content Providers (CPs) or by the end-user according to different categories, such as client location, personal settings, or business considerations, and to distribute such modified content. This chapter discusses and addresses this gap, proposing a content customization and distribution system for changing content consumption, by adapting content according to target end-user profiles (such as end-user personal tastes or its local social or geographic community). The aim is to give CPs ways to allow users and/or Service Providers (SPs) to configure contents according to different criteria, improving users’ quality of experience and SPs’ revenues generation, and to possibly charge users and SPs (e.g. advertisers) for such functionalities. The authors propose to employ artificial intelligence techniques, such as mixture of Gaussians, to learn the functional constraints faced by people, objects, or even scenes on a movie stream in order to support the content modification process. The solutions reported will allow SPs to provide the end-user with automatic ways to adapt and configure the (on-line, live) content to their tastes—and even more—to manipulate the content of live (or off-line) video streams (in the way that photo editing did for images or video editing, to a certain extent, did for off-line videos).


Author(s):  
Olena Khachaturyan ◽  
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Serhiy Khachaturyan ◽  

Recently, the sphere of providing motor transport services has become more and more widespread and developed. The number of enterprises and sole proprietors in the market of motor transport services is constantly increasing. At the same time, the level of competition between motor transport service providers is growing, which makes it necessary to improve the quality of motor transport services. After all, a high level of quality allows us to occupy a leading position in this sector of the economy. There is an urgent need to assess the quality of motor services, and it is important to assess their quality from the standpoint of consumers of these services. Distinctive features of methodical bases of carrying out quality assessment at the enterprises of motor transport are defined. In the course of research both group, and individual indicators of quality assessment are established. Quality assessment is the result of the course of perception of quality, which is formed in the process of providing services to the user and is accompanied by a specific assessment of the quantitative degree of compliance of the received service with his expectations. Analysis of existing indicators revealed assessment of service quality. The stages of quality assessment, consistent provision of their implementation and the main basic provisions are determined, based on which a set of methodological approaches to assessing the quality of road transport services can be improved. The levels of evaluation of motor transport services and their content are established. An approach to assessing the quality of road transport service and the implementation of the course of providing services to users, which is based on its identified values in three stages: standardized, consolidated and expanded. The signs of the quality of the course of providing services to users on the basis of "points of conflict" with them are substantiated by two classes of signs: "effective" and "instrumental".


Author(s):  
Hamed Fazlollahtabar

Assessing quality is obviously a key concern in many aspects of learning, education and training, so why should it be especially crucial in relation to e-learning? The e-learners, as with other distance learners, are working in isolation with limited or sometimes non-existent human support. This means that the first impact of any failure in the providers’ quality assessment regime falls directly on the e-learner. When an e-learner encounters errors caused by a failure in a providers’ quality assessment regime the impact might be immediately evident or not become evident until the learner undertakes an assessed outcome. Since e-learning development is fundamentally a team-based activity, the effectiveness or quality of an e-learning program depends on the weakest link in the production chain. E-learning exists at a point of convergence between technology based disciplines and human-centered disciplines.


2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (S2) ◽  
pp. 470-471
Author(s):  
Robin H Cross

The economic importance of animal hides and skins as the source material for the natural leather industry is significant world-wide, and in some countries of the developing world the livelihood of a large proportion of the population depends upon it. Consequently, it is understandable that anything affecting the quality of the source material and the finished product has major economic, industrial and sociological significance. It is also inevitable that a product that is so widely-used in many ways by most of the population will become an important source of evidence in forensic investigations.Quality control procedures in the leather industry involve monitoring the progress of the hides and skins from the growth stages of the animal, through the slaughter, storage, transportation, curing, tanning and finishing processes, to the sale and distribution of the finished product. There are many factors during these stages that can affect quality of finished leather, amongst the most important of which are mechanical and parasite damage during growth, biodeterioration and mechanical damage between slaughter and curing, mechanical, heat and chemical damage during curing, tanning and finishing.


Radiocarbon ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Christophe Moreau ◽  
Cyrielle Messager ◽  
Bernard Berthier ◽  
Stéphane Hain ◽  
Bruno Thellier ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Quality control procedures have been developed at the Laboratoire de Mesure du Carbone 14 (LMC14) national laboratory throughout the years of operation. Routine procedures are applied to sample preparation depending on their composition and their size. The tuning of the ARTEMIS AMS facility, hosted by the LMC14 laboratory, uses an accurate procedure. A batch of unknown samples is measured with accompanying samples (primary and secondary standards and blanks), which give a powerful set of data to control the quality of each measurement. A homemade database has been created to store the sample information and study the evolution of the accompanying samples. The LMC14 laboratory participated in the Sixth International Radiocarbon Intercomparison, SIRI. The results are presented here, with statistical tests to assess the quality of the preparations and measurements done at the LMC14 national laboratory. To obtain a reliable radiocarbon (14C) age by AMS, 1 mg of sample is required in routine analysis. Recently, the LMC14 developed a new procedure dedicated to microsamples, allowing the size of samples to be reduced and contributing to opening 14C dating to materials that were previously unreachable. This new procedure has been successfully tested on valuable Cultural Heritage samples: lead white mural paintings.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Winona Valeria Siregar ◽  
M. Nur Ghoyatul Amin

Red snappers are fishery commodities which have high market values. Raw materials of red snappers are important elements which determine the quality of the final products. Therefore, an enhancement of raw materials quality should be conducted through quality supervision and examination when the raw materials are retrieved, stored, and about to enter production process. The aim of this fieldwork practice is to find out the raw materials quality control on red snapper freezing process in PT. Tridaya Jaya Manunggal Pasuruan, East Java. The data taken consists of primary and secondary data which are processed descriptively. Data collection techniques through observation, interviews, active participation and literature review. PT. Tridaya Jaya Manunggal has implemented quality control on production process, starting from raw materials retrieval until these raw materials become final products. The quality control of raw red snappers were done in accordance with the quality control procedures which are plan, do, check, and action. The results of implementing quality control which were executed with organoleptic examination, temperature, Total Volatile Base (TVB), microbiology, and heavy metals on raw red snappers. Raw materials which didn’t meet the required standard were rejected, and then they were processed to be second grade products.


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