Colab

The advantage of using colab is that you don't need to buy an Nvidia GPU. It's available for free from Google. If you find it's very useful and you need to run experiments that last more than 12 hours, or you want to run four at once you can upgrade to Colab Pro. At the time of writing that is only $10 per month. Colab Pro+ is also available for $50 per month. See the differences between them: Colab options and differences.

It's easy to install silnlp on Colab using our silnlp-colab.ipynb To get started, copy the silnlp-colab.ipynb file to your own Google Drive and open it with Colab.

The notebook shows the main steps in the pipeline: Obtain an aligned corpus. Configure the experiment. Preprocess the corpus into the files necessary for the experiment. Train the model. Test the model to get a quick idea of its quality. Use the model to translate.