Opus Mt Tc Big En Ar

🚀 opus-mt-tc-big-en-ar

A neural machine translation model designed to translate from English (en) to Arabic (ar), contributing to the widespread availability and accessibility of translation technology.

🚀 Quick Start

This model is part of the OPUS-MT project, aiming to make neural machine translation models accessible for numerous languages globally. It's initially trained with the Marian NMT framework, an efficient NMT implementation in pure C++, and then converted to pyTorch using the transformers library by huggingface. The training data is sourced from OPUS, and the training pipelines follow 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",
}

✨ Features

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

📦 Installation

No specific installation steps are provided in the original document.

💻 Usage Examples

Basic Usage

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؟

Advanced Usage

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.

📚 Documentation

Model info

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

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

📄 License

The model is licensed under cc-by-4.0.