Centre for Translation Studies NMT on Web (CTSNMT)

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Welcome to the CTSNMT project repository. To use this codebase and host this application locally,

Clone the repository using:

    git clone https://github.com/surrey-nlp/Local-NMT.git

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Installation ( necessary; but easy :) )

Step 1

git clone https://github.com/surrey-nlp/Local-NMT.git
cd Local-NMT

Step 2

pip install -r requirements.txt

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Run

python app.py --port <VALUE>

(requires GPU for fast inference, slower inference with CPUs)

Now, you can open Browser and copy and paste URL indicated in prompt (http://localhost:5000)

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User Interface

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Yet to be added

• Feedback support

Changelog after forking

20/03/2022 - 22/03/2022

• Added support for uploading file and translating it, a download link is provided later.

11/03/2022 - 15/03/2022

• Sentence Generation on source side for each of the 99 languages supported by the FB model.
• Language Identification via the JS-based langid.py library. Supports 78 languages. Thanks to the developer! :)
• Inference using trained NMT models from the folder "models" in CTSNMT root.
• PORT value to be passed as an argparse parameter now. Use --port otherwise it defaults to using PORT 5000.
• Interface cleaning.

10/03/2022

• Added bertviz based visualization. Thanks to the developer! :)

09/03/2022

• Alert boxes for missing parameters.
• Copy button, and clear buttons added for ease.
• langauges order changed to alphabetical (mostly).
• Copy translation button to copy the translated text to clipboard.
• Back-translate button to reverse the language pairs and back-translate the previous translated output.

08/03/2022

• v1.0.0: Asynchrounous translation finally!
• Use of Swagger API added, calls to API for translation (removed form submit).
• Source and Target language selection via Python dictionary; removed dependency of data-id from HTML.
• Changed model to FB M2M 418M for quick debugging.
• resolved icon issue while selecting languages.
• resolved "hidden input" dependencies, jquery based language selection using semantic ui default hidden fields.
• navbar icon trimmed.
• added collection of translated text to a file (step towards feedback)

01/01/2022

• Added Semantic UI for searchable dropdown.
• Added support for selection of source language.
• POST request sends back previous source/target language pair (system defaults to translating for the last language pair, if languages not selected).
• Added support for model change in HTML (Flask side pages to be added later).
• Added CTS logo.

31/12/2021

• v0.5.1: Changed model to Facebook M2M for supporting 100+ languages.
• Tokenizer change.
• Added target language change support via dropdown (source language change to be added later).
• Flask hosting changed to 0.0.0.0 to support access throughout internal network.

License

CC-BY-SA 4.0