readme: ---
  language:
  - si
  - en
  tags:
  - translation
  license: apache-2.0
  metrics:
  - sacrebleu
  ---
  # mt5-sinhalese-english
  
  ## Model description
  
  An mT5-base model fine-tuned on the Sinhalese-English dataset in the Tatoeba Challenge. Can be used to translate from Sinhalese to English and vice versa.
  
  ## Training details
  - English - Sinhala dataset from the Tatoeba Challenge [Datasets](https://github.com/Helsinki-NLP/Tatoeba-Challenge/blob/master/Data.md)
  - [mT5-base pre-trained weights](https://huggingface.co/google/mt5-base)
  
  ## Eval results
  
  SacreBLEU score:
  - English to Sinhalese: 10.3
  - Sinhalese to English: 24.4