Data Mining – Sean Zdenek, PhD

A frame from Star Wars: The Force Awakens featuring BB-8 and the caption: Chirps Inquisitively)

April 14, 2016

Chirp! Captioning BB-8 in The Force Awakens

How do the closed captions convey the changing meanings and emotions of the BB-8 droid’s electronic beeping sounds?

A frame from Prophecy 3: The Ascent featuring a cityscape at night and the closed caption: [SIRENS WAILING IN DISTANCE]

January 7, 2016

Do sirens always wail?

How often are sirens described as wailing in closed captioning? What else do sirens do in closed captioning other than wail? Does it matter?

Captioning/Data Mining/Non-Speech

January 2, 2011

Stylistic standards for closed captioning and data mining

When speaker IDs, musical lyrics, and sound descriptions have their own distinctive stylistic treatments, they can be extracted from closed caption files and studied as separate units of discourse.

Captioning/Data Mining/Non-Speech

Category: Data Mining

Chirp! Captioning BB-8 in The Force Awakens

Do sirens always wail?

Stylistic standards for closed captioning and data mining