itzune/argostranslate_en_eu_1_9

Itzune v1.9 EN -> EU machine translation argos model

This model was trained using argostrain training scripts with 11,542,706 English to Basque parallel strings extracted from datasets obtained directly from the Opus project.

Model description

• Developed by: argostranslate
• Model type: traslation
• Model version: v1.9
• Source Language: English
• Target Language: Basque
• License: MIT

Training Data

The English-Basque parallel sentences were collected from the following datasets:

Dataset	Sentences before cleaning
CCMatrix v1	7,788,871
OpenSubtitles v2018	805,780
XLEnt v1.2	800,631
GNOME v1	652,298
HPLT v1.1	610,694
EhuHac v1	585,210
WikiMatrix v1	119,480
KDE4 v2	100,160
wikimedia v20230407	60,990
bible-uedin v1	15,893
Tatoeba v2023-04-12	2,070
Wiktionary	629
Total	11,542,706

Evaluation results

Below are the evaluation results on the machine translation from English to Basque compared to Google Translate, NLLB 200 3.3B and mt-hitz-en-eu:

BLEU scores

Test set	Google Translate	NLLB 3.3	mt-hitz-en-eu	itzune 1.9
Flores 200 devtest	20.5	13.3	19.2	17.0
TaCON	12.1	9.4	8.8	-
NTREX	15.7	8.0	14.5	-
Average	16.1	10.2	14.2	-

TER scores

Test set	Google Translate	NLLB 3.3	mt-hitz-en-eu	itzune 1.9
Flores 200 devtest	59.5	70.4	65.0	70.1
TaCON	69.5	75.3	76.8	-
NTREX	65.8	81.6	66.7	-
Average	64.9	75.8	68.2	-