Hermes the Polyglot: A Unified Framework to Enhance Expressiveness for Multimodal Interlingual Subtitling

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Main Authors: Cui, Chaoqun, Wang, Shijing, Huang, Liangbin, Gu, Qingqing, Huang, Zhaolong, Zeng, Xiao, Mao, Wenji
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author Cui, Chaoqun
Wang, Shijing
Huang, Liangbin
Gu, Qingqing
Huang, Zhaolong
Zeng, Xiao
Mao, Wenji
author_facet Cui, Chaoqun
Wang, Shijing
Huang, Liangbin
Gu, Qingqing
Huang, Zhaolong
Zeng, Xiao
Mao, Wenji
contents Interlingual subtitling, which translates subtitles of visual media into a target language, is essential for entertainment localization but has not yet been explored in machine translation. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced the general capabilities of machine translation, the distinctive characteristics of subtitle texts pose persistent challenges in interlingual subtitling, particularly regarding semantic coherence, pronoun and terminology translation, and translation expressiveness. To address these issues, we present Hermes, an LLM-based automated subtitling framework. Hermes integrates three modules: Speaker Diarization, Terminology Identification, and Expressiveness Enhancement, which effectively tackle the above challenges. Experiments demonstrate that Hermes achieves state-of-the-art diarization performance and generates expressive, contextually coherent translations, thereby advancing research in interlingual subtitling.
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spellingShingle Hermes the Polyglot: A Unified Framework to Enhance Expressiveness for Multimodal Interlingual Subtitling
Cui, Chaoqun
Wang, Shijing
Huang, Liangbin
Gu, Qingqing
Huang, Zhaolong
Zeng, Xiao
Mao, Wenji
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Interlingual subtitling, which translates subtitles of visual media into a target language, is essential for entertainment localization but has not yet been explored in machine translation. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced the general capabilities of machine translation, the distinctive characteristics of subtitle texts pose persistent challenges in interlingual subtitling, particularly regarding semantic coherence, pronoun and terminology translation, and translation expressiveness. To address these issues, we present Hermes, an LLM-based automated subtitling framework. Hermes integrates three modules: Speaker Diarization, Terminology Identification, and Expressiveness Enhancement, which effectively tackle the above challenges. Experiments demonstrate that Hermes achieves state-of-the-art diarization performance and generates expressive, contextually coherent translations, thereby advancing research in interlingual subtitling.
title Hermes the Polyglot: A Unified Framework to Enhance Expressiveness for Multimodal Interlingual Subtitling
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00597