opus-mt-tc-big-en-it

Neural machine translation model for translating from English (en) to Italian (it).

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: 2022-03-13
• source language(s): eng
• target language(s): ita
• model: transformer-big
• data: opusTCv20210807+bt (source)
• tokenization: SentencePiece (spm32k,spm32k)
• original model: opusTCv20210807+bt_transformer-big_2022-03-13.zip
• more information released models: OPUS-MT eng-ita README

Usage

A short example code:

from transformers import MarianMTModel, MarianTokenizer

src_text = [
    "He was always very respectful.",
    "This cat is black. Is the dog, too?"
]

model_name = "pytorch-models/opus-mt-tc-big-en-it"
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:
#     Era sempre molto rispettoso.
#     Questo gatto e' nero, e' anche il cane?

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-en-it")
print(pipe("He was always very respectful."))

# expected output: Era sempre molto rispettoso.

Benchmarks

• test set translations: opusTCv20210807+bt_transformer-big_2022-03-13.test.txt
• test set scores: opusTCv20210807+bt_transformer-big_2022-03-13.eval.txt
• benchmark results: benchmark_results.txt
• benchmark output: benchmark_translations.zip

langpair	testset	chr-F	BLEU	#sent	#words
eng-ita	tatoeba-test-v2021-08-07	0.72539	53.9	17320	116336
eng-ita	flores101-devtest	0.59002	29.6	1012	27306
eng-ita	newssyscomb2009	0.60759	31.2	502	11551
eng-ita	newstest2009	0.60441	31.6	2525	63466

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 17:27:22 EEST 2022
• port machine: LM0-400-22516.local