This model is part of the OPUS-MT project, an effort to make neural machine translation models widely available and accessible for many languages in the world. All models are originally trained using the amazing framework of Marian NMT, an efficient NMT implementation written in pure C++. The models have been converted to pyTorch using the transformers library by huggingface. Training data is taken from OPUS and training pipelines use the procedures of OPUS-MT-train. Model Description:

Developed by: Language Technology Research Group at the University of Helsinki
Model Type: Translation (transformer-big)
Release: 2024-08-18
License: Apache-2.0
Language(s):
- Source Language(s): acm afb amh apc ara arc arq arz hbo heb jpa mlt oar phn sgw syc syr tig tir tmr
- Target Language(s): deu eng nld
- Valid Target Language Labels: >>deu<< >>eng<< >>nld<< >>xxx<<
Original Model: opusTCv20230926max50+bt+jhubc_transformer-big_2024-08-18.zip
Resources for more information:

This is a multilingual translation model with multiple target languages. A sentence initial language token is required in the form of >>id<< (id = valid target language ID), e.g. >>deu<<

Uses

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

Risks, Limitations and Biases

CONTENT WARNING: Readers should be aware that the model is trained on various public data sets that may contain 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)).

How to Get Started With the Model

A short example code:

python

from transformers import MarianMTModel, MarianTokenizer

src_text = [
    ">>eng<< شاهد ليون التلفاز لوقت أطول.",
    ">>nld<< הם מתקוטטים לעיתים קרובות."
]

model_name = "pytorch-models/opus-mt-tc-bible-big-sem-deu_eng_nld"
tokenizer = MarianTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
model = MarianMTModel.from_pretrained(model_name)
translated = model.generate(**tokenizer(src_text, return_tensors="pt", padding=True))

for t in translated:
    print( tokenizer.decode(t, skip_special_tokens=True) )

# expected output:
#     I watched TV for a long time.
#     Ze vechten vaak.

You can also use OPUS-MT models with the transformers pipelines, for example:

python

from transformers import pipeline
pipe = pipeline("translation", model="Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-tc-bible-big-sem-deu_eng_nld")
print(pipe(">>eng<< شاهد ليون التلفاز لوقت أطول."))

# expected output: I watched TV for a long time.

Training

Data: opusTCv20230926max50+bt+jhubc (source)
Pre-processing: SentencePiece (spm32k,spm32k)
Model Type: transformer-big
Original MarianNMT Model: opusTCv20230926max50+bt+jhubc_transformer-big_2024-08-18.zip
Training Scripts: GitHub Repo

Evaluation

Model scores at the OPUS-MT dashboard
test set translations: opusTCv20230926max50+bt+jhubc_transformer-big_2024-08-18.test.txt
test set scores: opusTCv20230926max50+bt+jhubc_transformer-big_2024-08-18.eval.txt
benchmark results: benchmark_results.txt
benchmark output: benchmark_translations.zip

langpair	testset	chr-F	BLEU	#sent	#words
multi-multi	tatoeba-test-v2020-07-28-v2023-09-26	0.63867	47.0	10000	73537

Citation Information

Publications: Democratizing neural machine translation with OPUS-MT and OPUS-MT – Building open translation services for the World and The Tatoeba Translation Challenge – Realistic Data Sets for Low Resource and Multilingual MT (Please, cite if you use this model.)

bibtex

@article{tiedemann2023democratizing,
  title={Democratizing neural machine translation with {OPUS-MT}},
  author={Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg and Aulamo, Mikko and Bakshandaeva, Daria and Boggia, Michele and Gr{\"o}nroos, Stig-Arne and Nieminen, Tommi and Raganato, Alessandro and Scherrer, Yves and Vazquez, Raul and Virpioja, Sami},
  journal={Language Resources and Evaluation},
  number={58},
  pages={713--755},
  year={2023},
  publisher={Springer Nature},
  issn={1574-0218},
  doi={10.1007/s10579-023-09704-w}
}

@inproceedings{tiedemann-thottingal-2020-opus,
    title = "{OPUS}-{MT} {--} Building open translation services for the World",
    author = {Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and Thottingal, Santhosh},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation",
    month = nov,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Lisboa, Portugal",
    publisher = "European Association for Machine Translation",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.eamt-1.61",
    pages = "479--480",
}

@inproceedings{tiedemann-2020-tatoeba,
    title = "The Tatoeba Translation Challenge {--} Realistic Data Sets for Low Resource and Multilingual {MT}",
    author = {Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation",
    month = nov,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.139",
    pages = "1174--1182",
}

Acknowledgements

The work is supported by the HPLT project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101070350. We are also grateful for the generous computational resources and IT infrastructure provided by CSC -- IT Center for Science, Finland, and the EuroHPC supercomputer LUMI.

Model conversion info

transformers version: 4.45.1
OPUS-MT git hash: 0882077
port time: Tue Oct 8 22:14:11 EEST 2024
port machine: LM0-400-22516.local

Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-tc-bible-big-sem-deu_eng_nld

opus-mt-tc-bible-big-sem-deu_eng_nld

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