Uses

This model is intended for translation of English material into Tok Pisin. It is fine-tuned on material from Bible stories, from selected articles of a Bible Dictionary translated into Tok Pisin, and from translation of the deuterocanon (apocrypha) into Tok Pisin.

How to Get Started with the Model

Use the code below to get started with the model.

from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("translation", model="RickBrannan/opus-mt-en-tpi-finetune")
translation = pipe(">>tpi<< In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.")

Training Details

Training Data

1,100+ English-Tok Pisin sentence pairs based on "Open Bible Stories" from unfoldingWord: https://git.door43.org/door43-Catalog/tpi_obs
2,600+ English-Tok Pisin sentence pairs based on translations from English into Tok Pisin pulled from the Bible Aquifer: https://aquifer.bible
4,150+ English-Tok Pisin sentence pairs based on translation of deuterocanonical books of the Bible into Tok Pisin: https://ebible.org/Scriptures/details.php?id=tpi

The first two sources are available via CC-BY-SA license and available in the RickBrannan/tpi_eng_sentence_pairs dataset. The Tok Pisin of the last source is available via CC-BY-NC-ND from the website listed. For the English, we used the text of the deuterocanon of the World English Bible (WEB) where references matched. Where WEB did not have a reference, we used the deuterocanon of the English Revised Version (RV).

Testing Data

Testing data was 10% of the sentences from the above specified training data.