mt-dspec-health-en-cy

English-to-Welsh translation model specialised for the health and care domain, built using Marian NMT.

Installation

pip install sentencepiece transformers

Usage

import transformers

model_id = "techiaith/mt-dspec-health-en-cy"
tokenizer = transformers.AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = transformers.AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(model_id)
translate = transformers.pipeline("translation", model=model, tokenizer=tokenizer)

result = translate("The patient has a headache.")
print(result[0]["translation_text"])
# Mae gan y claf gur pen.

Training Data

• UK Government Legislation data
• OPUS-cy-en corpus
• Cofnod y Cynulliad (Welsh Assembly Records)
• Cofion Techiaith Cymru

Evaluation

Metric	Score
SacreBLEU	54.16
CER	0.31
WER	0.47
CHRF	69.03

Version History

2026-02-26: Re-converted with weight tying fix. The previous version required transformers<=4.30.2 due to issue #26271. This version works with all transformers versions.

Links

• Live Demo: https://cyfieithu.techiaith.cymru
• Source: techiaith/marian-mt-models-api

License

Apache 2.0