aina-translator-zh-ca

Projecte Aina’s Chinese-Catalan machine translation model

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• Model description
• Intended uses and limitations
• How to use
• Limitations and bias
• Training
• Evaluation
• Additional information

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Model description

This machine translation model is built upon the M2M100 1.2B, fine-tuned specifically for Chinese-Catalan translation. It is trained on a combination of Catalan-Chinese datasets totalling 94,187,858 sentence pairs. 113,305 sentence pairs were parallel data collected from the web, while the remaining 94,074,553 sentence pairs were parallel synthetic data created using the Aina Project's Spanish-Catalan machine translation model and the Aina Project's English-Catalan machine translation model. The model was evaluated on the Flores, NTREX, and Projecte Aina's Catalan-Chinese evaluation datasets, achieving results comparable to those of Google Translate.

Intended uses and limitations

You can use this model for machine translation from simplified Chinese to Catalan.

How to use

Usage

Translate a sentence using python

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM

model_id = "projecte-aina/aina-translator-zh-ca"

model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(model_id)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)

sentence = "欢迎来到 Aina 项目！"

input_ids = tokenizer(sentence, return_tensors="pt").input_ids
output_ids = model.generate(input_ids, max_length=200, num_beams=5)

generated_translation= tokenizer.decode(output_ids[0], skip_special_tokens=True).strip()
print(generated_translation)
#Benvingut al projecte Aina!

Limitations and bias

At the time of submission, no measures have been taken to estimate the bias and toxicity embedded in the model. However, we are well aware that our models may be biased. We intend to conduct research in these areas in the future, and if completed, this model card will be updated.

Training

Training data

The Catalan-Chinese data collected from the web was a combination of the following datasets:

94,074,553 sentence pairs of synthetic parallel data were created from the following Spanish-Chinese datasets and English-Chinese datasets:

Spanish-Chinese:

English-Chinese:

Training procedure

Data preparation

The Chinese side of all datasets were first processed using the Hanzi Identifier to detect Traditional Chinese, which was subsequently converted to Simplified Chinese using OpenCC.

All data was then filtered according to two specific criteria:

• Alignment: sentence level alignments were calculated using LaBSE and sentence pairs with a score below 0.75 were discarded.

• Language identification: the probability of being the target language was calculated using Lingua.py and sentences with a language probability score below 0.5 were discarded.

Next, Spanish data was translated into Catalan using the Aina Project's Spanish-Catalan machine translation model, while English data was translated into Catalan using the Aina Project's English-Catalan machine translation model.

The filtered and translated datasets are then concatenated and deduplicated to form a final corpus of 94,187,858.

Training

The training was executed on NVIDIA GPUs utilizing the Hugging Face Transformers framework. The model was trained for 244,500 updates. Weights were saved every 500 updates.

Evaluation

Variable and metrics

Below are the evaluation results on Flores-200, NTREX, and Projecte Aina's Catalan-Chinese test sets (unpublished), compared to Google Translate for the ZH-CA direction. The evaluation was conducted using tower-eval following the standard setting (beam search with beam size 5, limiting the translation length to 200 tokens). We report the following metrics:

• BLEU: Sacrebleu implementation, version: 2.4.0.
• ChrF: Sacrebleu implementation.
• Comet: Model checkpoint: "Unbabel/wmt22-comet-da".
• Comet-kiwi: Model checkpoint: "Unbabel/wmt22-cometkiwi-da".

Evaluation results

Below are the evaluation results on the machine translation from Chinese to Catalan compared to Google Translate:

Flores200-dev

Flores200-devtest

NTREX

Projecte Aina's Catalan-Chinese evaluation dataset

Additional information

Author

The Language Technologies Unit from Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

Contact

For further information, please send an email to [email protected].

Copyright

Copyright(c) 2023 by Language Technologies Unit, Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

License

Apache License, Version 2.0

Funding

This work has been promoted and financed by the Generalitat de Catalunya through the Aina project.

Disclaimer

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The model published in this repository is intended for a generalist purpose and is available to third parties under a permissive Apache License, Version 2.0.

Be aware that the model may have biases and/or any other undesirable distortions.

When third parties deploy or provide systems and/or services to other parties using this model (or any system based on it) or become users of the model, they should note that it is their responsibility to mitigate the risks arising from its use and, in any event, to comply with applicable regulations, including regulations regarding the use of Artificial Intelligence.

In no event shall the owner and creator of the model (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) be liable for any results arising from the use made by third parties.

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