The EuroparlTV Multimedia Parallel Corpus (EMPAC) is a collection of subtitles in English and Spanish for videos from the European Parliament’s Multimedia Centre. The corpus has been compiled with the EMPAC toolkit. The aim of this corpus is to provide a resource to study institutional subtitling on the one hand, and, on the other hand, facilitate the analysis of web accessibility to institutional multimedia content. The corpus covers a time span from 2009 to 2017, it is made up of 4,000 texts amounting to two and half millions of tokens for every language, corresponding to approximately 280 hours of video. This paper provides 1) a review of related corpora; 2) a revision of typical compilation methodologies of subtitle corpora; 3) a detailed account of the corpus compilation methodology followed; 4) a description of the corpus; 5) the key findings are summarised regarding formal aspects of the subtitles conditioning the accessibility to the multimedia content of the EuroparlTV; and 6) some final remarks and ideas for future research.
Iris Serrat Roozen and José Manuel Martínez Martínez. 2020. EMPAC: an English–Spanish Corpus of Institutional Subtitles. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 4044–4053, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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