Translator
The Translator does what it says on the tin: it translates text from one language into another. Have a look at examples of how to use the Translator in your search app.
Some translation models are language-specific while others are multilingual. See the Hugging Face Model Hub for a list of available models.
Usage
You can use the Translator component directly to translate your query or documents:
from haystack import Document
from haystack.nodes import TransformersTranslator
DOCS = [
Document(
content="""Heinz von Foerster was an Austrian American scientist
combining physics and philosophy, and widely attributed
as the originator of Second-order cybernetics."""
)
]
translator = TransformersTranslator(model_name_or_path="Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-fr")
res = translator.translate(documents=DOCS, query=None)
Using the TranslationWrapperPipeline
Let's imagine you have an English corpus of technical docs, but the mother tongue of many of your users is French. You can use a Translator node in your pipeline to:
- Translate the incoming query from French to English.
- Search in your English corpus for the right document or answer.
- Translate the results back from English to French.
from haystack.pipelines import TranslationWrapperPipeline, DocumentSearchPipeline
from haystack.nodes import TransformersTranslator
pipeline = DocumentSearchPipeline(retriever=my_dpr_retriever)
in_translator = TransformersTranslator(model_name_or_path="Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-fr-en")
out_translator = TransformersTranslator(model_name_or_path="Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-fr")
pipeline_with_translation = TranslationWrapperPipeline(input_translator=in_translator,
output_translator=out_translator,
pipeline=pipeline)
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