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tags:
- Levantine Arabic
- Shami
- English
- Egyptian
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# English2Dialect

This model generates translations from English to colloquial Arabic, conditioning the translations on dialect. Supported dialects are: Palestinian/Jordanian, Syrian, Lebanese and Egyptian.
Dialect is specified via the first input token which should be either P/S/L/E.

For example, to translate to Palestinian/Jordanian, use the input:

`P What time is it now?`

And for Syrian:

`S What time is it now?`

- **Demo:** https://huggingface.co/spaces/guymorlan/English2Shami
- **Version w/o conditional generation (Levantine only):** https://huggingface.co/guymorlan/English2Shami
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## Training Data
The model was trained by fine-tuning the opus-mt-ar-en (MSA to English) model on ~85K parallel sentences in four dialects of colloquial Arabic.

## Model Description

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- **Developed by:** Guy Mor-Lan (guy.mor@mail.huji.ac.il)
- **Model type:** MarianMT Seq2Seq
- **License:** MIT
- **Finetuned from model:** Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-ar-en[https://huggingface.co/Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-ar-en]

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