Developed by: Language Technology Research Group at the University of Helsinki
Model Type: Transformer-align
Language(s):
- Source Language: Russian
- Target Language: English
License: CC-BY-4.0
Resources for more information:
- GitHub Repo

Uses

Direct Use

This model can be used for translation and text-to-text generation.

Risks, Limitations and Biases

CONTENT WARNING: Readers should be aware this section contains content that is disturbing, offensive, and can propagate historical and current stereotypes.

Significant research has explored bias and fairness issues with language models (see, e.g., Sheng et al. (2021) and Bender et al. (2021)).

Further details about the dataset for this model can be found in the OPUS readme: ru-en

Training

Training Data

Preprocessing

Pre-processing: Normalization + SentencePiece
Dataset: opus
Download original weights: opus-2020-02-26.zip
Test set translations: opus-2020-02-26.test.txt

Evaluation

Results

test set scores: opus-2020-02-26.eval.txt

Benchmarks

testset	BLEU	chr-F
newstest2012.ru.en	34.8	0.603
newstest2013.ru.en	27.9	0.545
newstest2014-ruen.ru.en	31.9	0.591
newstest2015-enru.ru.en	30.4	0.568
newstest2016-enru.ru.en	30.1	0.565
newstest2017-enru.ru.en	33.4	0.593
newstest2018-enru.ru.en	29.6	0.565
newstest2019-ruen.ru.en	31.4	0.576
Tatoeba.ru.en	61.1	0.736

Citation Information

bibtex

@InProceedings{TiedemannThottingal:EAMT2020,
  author = {J{\"o}rg Tiedemann and Santhosh Thottingal},
  title = {{OPUS-MT} — {B}uilding open translation services for the {W}orld},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conferenec of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT)},
  year = {2020},
  address = {Lisbon, Portugal}
 }

How to Get Started With the Model

python

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-ru-en")

model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained("Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-ru-en")

Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-ru-en

opus-mt-ru-en

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