West Germanic languages to German, English and Dutch translation model translate-tcbig-bible_gmw-deu_eng_nld
Open machine translation from West Germanic languages into German, English and Dutch, published by Windstorm Labs on Hugging Face. This model covers several target languages; see the snippet for the target token.
- Task
- Translation: West Germanic languages → German, English and Dutch
- Languages
- West Germanic languages gmw, German de, English en, Dutch nl
- Lineage
- OPUS-MT tc-bible
- Format
- transformers (Marian), safetensors
- Hugging Face
- WindyTranslate/translate-tcbig-bible_gmw-deu_eng_nld
- Last updated on HF
- 2026-08-04
Quality
Not yet scored. FLORES-200 has no test set for West Germanic languages → German, English and Dutch, so this pair is outside the screening run.
How to run
Shell
pip install transformers sentencepiece torchPython
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM
repo = "WindyTranslate/translate-tcbig-bible_gmw-deu_eng_nld"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(repo)
# Several target languages: start each input with a target token, e.g. >>deu<<.
batch = tok([">>deu<< <West Germanic languages text>"], return_tensors="pt", padding=True)
print(tok.batch_decode(model.generate(**batch), skip_special_tokens=True)[0])Tested: Pattern run on 2026-10-01 against WindyTranslate/translate-tc-big-en-fr with transformers 4.57.6 and 5.18.0 on CPU ("Où se trouve la gare ?"); multi-target token prefix run against translate-tc-bible-big-mul-deu_eng_nld. Not run on every model individually.
Licence and attribution
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Upstream
- Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-tc-bible-big-gmw-deu_eng_nld
- Upstream licence
- Apache-2.0
- Attribution
- Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-tc-bible-big-gmw-deu_eng_nld by Helsinki-NLP (Language Technology Research Group, University of Helsinki). Licensed Apache-2.0.
Copy this into your NOTICE file (or equivalent) when you ship the model:
NOTICE
This product uses the model WindyTranslate/translate-tcbig-bible_gmw-deu_eng_nld
(https://huggingface.co/WindyTranslate/translate-tcbig-bible_gmw-deu_eng_nld), published by Windstorm Labs (https://windstormlabs.com).
Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-tc-bible-big-gmw-deu_eng_nld by Helsinki-NLP (Language Technology Research Group, University of Helsinki). Licensed Apache-2.0.
Windstorm Labs modified the upstream weights; the model card describes what was changed.
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0This is a convenience, not legal advice. See Licensing.
Related models
| Model | chrF++ (FLORES-200 dev) | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| West Germanic languages to German, English and Dutch translate-tc-bible-big-gmw-deu_eng_nld | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| English to German translate-en-de | 63.0 Excellent | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Danish to German translate-da-de | 58.4 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Czech to German translate-cs-de | 52.9 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| French to German translate-fr-de | 51.8 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Italian to German translate-it-de | 51.5 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Estonian to German translate-et-de | 50.7 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Bulgarian to German translate-bg-de | 50.1 Good | Apache-2.0 |