Machine Translation Service

Translation flask API for the Helsinki NLP models available in the Huggingface Transformers library.

Usage

You can download language models using the command line utility. For example...

cd machine-translation-service
mkdir data
python download_models.py --source en --target fr

To run with Python>=3.6:

pip install -r requirements.txt
python app.py

To run with docker:

docker build -t machine-translation-service .
docker run -p 5000:5000 -v $(pwd)/data:/app/data -it machine-translation-service

The front end should then become available at http://localhost:5000.

Call the service with curl:

curl --location --request POST 'http://localhost:5000/translate' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
 "text":"hello",
 "source":"en",
 "target":"fr"
}'