TextShuttle is a language technology company that specializes in multilingual solutions for the media industry. We combine many years of expertise in machine translation, parsing, and text mining. We have a background in academia and industry. We have worked on cross-language search solutions, terminology extraction, answer extraction and bio-medical text mining.

about the company name

A shuttle is an old device used in weaving. It's the piece that transports the yarn through the loom. Back and forth. A shuttle is also a high-tech device transporting astronauts to space. Back and forth.

Following the picture we are transporting texts between languages and between different formats. TextShuttle transforms texts to new textures, into new languages, into condensed form, or into enriched linguistic annotations.


TextShuttle gratefully acknowledges support
from the Swiss venture kick initiative.

EU flagTextShuttle is subcontracting partner to Vicomtech in the EU project SUMAT: An Online Service for SUbtitling by MAchine Translation (2011-2014)

TextShuttle uses modern language technology, combining linguistic and statistic methods. This speeds up the development process and guarantees a short time to market. We have proven that Statistical Machine Translation works particularly well for film and TV subtitles. Our system achieves a good translation quality since it exploits and recycles human-translated subtitles.

«I know you're the dreamgirl»

Watch the Slideshow and see a failed approach to automatic Bollywood film subtitle translation. We can do better than that!

  1. Machine Translation of Film Subtitles
  2. Conversion of Film Transcripts to Subtitles
  3. Conversion of Subtitles for the Hearing Impaired to Subtitles for the Hearing
  4. Multilingual Text Alignment and Analysis

Publications

  1. Martin Volk and Rico Sennrich (2011): Disambiguation of English Contractions for Machine Translation of TV Subtitles. In: Proceedings of The 18th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (Nodalida 2011). Riga.
  2. Martin Volk, Rico Sennrich, Christian Hardmeier and Frida Tidström (2010): Machine Translation of TV Subtitles for Large Scale Production. In: Proceedings of the Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop on Bringing MT to the User: Research on Integrating MT in the Translation Industry. Denver.
  3. Christian Hardmeier and Martin Volk (2009): Using Linguistic Annotations in Statistical Machine Translation of Film Subtitles. In: Proceedings of Nodalida. Odense.
  4. Martin Volk (2008): The Automatic Translation of Film Subtitles.
    A Machine Translation Success Story?     In: Festschrift for Anna Sågvall Hein. Uppsala.
  5. Martin Volk and Søren Harder (2007): Evaluating MT with Translations or Translators. What is the Difference? In: Proc. of MT-Summit XI. Copenhagen.

TextShuttle GmbH is based in Affoltern am Albis, Switzerland, a short way between the business centers of Zurich and Zug.

Email: info@textshuttle.ch

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Contact Address

    TextShuttle GmbH
    Hasenbühlstrasse 32
    CH-8910 Affoltern am Albis
    Switzerland
    +41-44-63-54317