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.

Publications: 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.)

@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",
}

Model info

Release: 2022-02-25
source language(s): eng
target language(s): afb ara
valid target language labels: >>afb<< >>ara<<
model: transformer-big
data: opusTCv20210807+bt (source)
tokenization: SentencePiece (spm32k,spm32k)
original model: opusTCv20210807+bt_transformer-big_2022-02-25.zip
more information released models: OPUS-MT eng-ara README
more information about the model: MarianMT

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. >>afb<<

Usage

A short example code:

python

from transformers import MarianMTModel, MarianTokenizer

src_text = [
    ">>ara<< I can't help you because I'm busy.",
    ">>ara<< I have to write a letter. Do you have some paper?"
]

model_name = "pytorch-models/opus-mt-tc-big-en-ar"
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:
#     لا أستطيع مساعدتك لأنني مشغول.
#     يجب أن أكتب رسالة هل لديك بعض الأوراق؟

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-big-en-ar")
print(pipe(">>ara<< I can't help you because I'm busy."))

# expected output: لا أستطيع مساعدتك لأنني مشغول.

Benchmarks

test set translations: opusTCv20210807+bt_transformer-big_2022-02-25.test.txt
test set scores: opusTCv20210807+bt_transformer-big_2022-02-25.eval.txt
benchmark results: benchmark_results.txt
benchmark output: benchmark_translations.zip

langpair	testset	chr-F	BLEU	#sent	#words
eng-ara	tatoeba-test-v2021-08-07	0.48813	19.8	10305	61356
eng-ara	flores101-devtest	0.61154	29.4	1012	21357
eng-ara	tico19-test	0.60075	30.0	2100	51339

Acknowledgements

The work is supported by the European Language Grid as pilot project 2866, by the FoTran project, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 771113), and the MeMAD project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 780069. We are also grateful for the generous computational resources and IT infrastructure provided by CSC -- IT Center for Science, Finland.

Model conversion info

transformers version: 4.16.2
OPUS-MT git hash: 3405783
port time: Wed Apr 13 16:37:31 EEST 2022
port machine: LM0-400-22516.local