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opus-mt-tc-big-ar-en

Neural machine translation model for translating from Arabic (ar) to English (en).

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.

@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

Usage

A short example code:

from transformers import MarianMTModel, MarianTokenizer

src_text = [
    "ุงุชุจุน ู‚ู„ุจูƒ ูุญุณุจ.",
    "ูˆูŠู† ุฑุงู‡ูŠ ุฏู‘ูˆุดุŸ"
]

model_name = "pytorch-models/opus-mt-tc-big-ar-en"
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:
#     Just follow your heart.
#     Wayne Rahi Dosh?

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

from transformers import pipeline
pipe = pipeline("translation", model="Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-tc-big-ar-en")
print(pipe("ุงุชุจุน ู‚ู„ุจูƒ ูุญุณุจ."))

# expected output: Just follow your heart.

Benchmarks

langpair testset chr-F BLEU #sent #words
ara-eng tatoeba-test-v2021-08-07 0.63477 47.3 10305 76975
ara-eng flores101-devtest 0.66987 42.6 1012 24721
ara-eng tico19-test 0.68521 44.4 2100 56323

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 Unionโ€™s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 771113), and the MeMAD project, funded by the European Unionโ€™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 18:17:57 EEST 2022
  • port machine: LM0-400-22516.local
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