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