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---
language:
- ar
- en
tags:
- translation
- opus-mt-tc
license: cc-by-4.0
model-index:
- name: opus-mt-tc-big-ar-en
results:
- task:
name: Translation ara-eng
type: translation
args: ara-eng
dataset:
name: flores101-devtest
type: flores_101
args: ara eng devtest
metrics:
- name: BLEU
type: bleu
value: 42.6
- task:
name: Translation ara-eng
type: translation
args: ara-eng
dataset:
name: tatoeba-test-v2021-08-07
type: tatoeba_mt
args: ara-eng
metrics:
- name: BLEU
type: bleu
value: 47.3
- task:
name: Translation ara-eng
type: translation
args: ara-eng
dataset:
name: tico19-test
type: tico19-test
args: ara-eng
metrics:
- name: BLEU
type: bleu
value: 44.4
---
# 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](https://github.com/Helsinki-NLP/Opus-MT), 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](https://marian-nmt.github.io/), 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](https://opus.nlpl.eu/) and training pipelines use the procedures of [OPUS-MT-train](https://github.com/Helsinki-NLP/Opus-MT-train).
* Publications: [OPUS-MT – Building open translation services for the World](https://aclanthology.org/2020.eamt-1.61/) and [The Tatoeba Translation Challenge – Realistic Data Sets for Low Resource and Multilingual MT](https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.139/) (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: 2022-03-09
* source language(s): afb ara arz
* target language(s): eng
* model: transformer-big
* data: opusTCv20210807+bt ([source](https://github.com/Helsinki-NLP/Tatoeba-Challenge))
* tokenization: SentencePiece (spm32k,spm32k)
* original model: [opusTCv20210807+bt_transformer-big_2022-03-09.zip](https://object.pouta.csc.fi/Tatoeba-MT-models/ara-eng/opusTCv20210807+bt_transformer-big_2022-03-09.zip)
* more information released models: [OPUS-MT ara-eng README](https://github.com/Helsinki-NLP/Tatoeba-Challenge/tree/master/models/ara-eng/README.md)
## Usage
A short example code:
```python
from transformers import MarianMTModel, MarianTokenizer
src_text = [
"اتبع قلبك فحسب.",
"وين راهي دّوش؟"
]
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:
```python
from transformers import pipeline
pipe = pipeline("translation", model="Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-tc-big-ar-en")
print(pipe("اتبع قلبك فحسب."))
# expected output: Just follow your heart.
```
## Benchmarks
* test set translations: [opusTCv20210807+bt_transformer-big_2022-03-09.test.txt](https://object.pouta.csc.fi/Tatoeba-MT-models/ara-eng/opusTCv20210807+bt_transformer-big_2022-03-09.test.txt)
* test set scores: [opusTCv20210807+bt_transformer-big_2022-03-09.eval.txt](https://object.pouta.csc.fi/Tatoeba-MT-models/ara-eng/opusTCv20210807+bt_transformer-big_2022-03-09.eval.txt)
* benchmark results: [benchmark_results.txt](benchmark_results.txt)
* benchmark output: [benchmark_translations.zip](benchmark_translations.zip)
| 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](https://www.european-language-grid.eu/) as [pilot project 2866](https://live.european-language-grid.eu/catalogue/#/resource/projects/2866), by the [FoTran project](https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/natural-language-understanding-with-cross-lingual-grounding), 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](https://memad.eu/), 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](https://www.csc.fi/), 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