This project is considered obsolete as the Torch framework is no longer maintained. If you are starting a new project, please use an alternative in the OpenNMT family: OpenNMT-tf (TensorFlow) or OpenNMT-py (PyTorch) depending on your requirements.

OpenNMT is a full-featured, open-source (MIT) neural machine translation system utilizing the Torch mathematical toolkit.

The system is designed to be simple to use and easy to extend, while maintaining efficiency and state-of-the-art translation accuracy. Features include:

• Speed and memory optimizations for high-performance GPU training.
• Simple general-purpose interface, only requires and source/target data files.
• C++ implementation of the translator for easy deployment.
• Extensions to allow other sequence generation tasks such as summarization and image captioning.

OpenNMT only requires a Torch installation with few dependencies.

1. Install Torch
2. Install additional packages:

luarocks install tds
luarocks install bit32 # if using LuaJIT

For other installation methods including Docker, visit the documentation.

OpenNMT consists of three commands:

1. Preprocess the data.

th preprocess.lua -train_src data/src-train.txt -train_tgt data/tgt-train.txt -valid_src data/src-val.txt -valid_tgt data/tgt-val.txt -save_data data/demo

2. Train the model.

th train.lua -data data/demo-train.t7 -save_model model

3. Translate sentences.

th translate.lua -model model_final.t7 -src data/src-test.txt -output pred.txt

For more details, visit the documentation.

A technical report on OpenNMT is available. If you use the system for academic work, please cite:

@ARTICLE{2017opennmt,
  author = {{Klein}, G. and {Kim}, Y. and {Deng}, Y. and {Senellart}, J. and {Rush}, A.~M.},
  title = "{OpenNMT: Open-Source Toolkit for Neural Machine Translation}",
  journal = {ArXiv e-prints},
  eprint = {1701.02810}
}

Our implementation utilizes code from the following:

• Andrej Karpathy's char-rnn repo
• Wojciech Zaremba's lstm repo
• Element rnn library

• Documentation
• Forum
• Gitter channel