Recommendation for English to Arabic Translation Tool

[Meriem Sellami]

Dear SIGARAB Team,

I hope you are doing well.

I am currently looking for a reliable English-to-Arabic translation tool capable of handling a large volume of data. The goal is to obtain accurate translations that preserve both linguistic quality and semantic meaning.

Given your expertise in Arabic NLP, I would greatly appreciate your recommendations on tools or services that you consider effective for this task, whether open-source or commercial.

Thank you very much for your time and support.

Best regards.

[Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad]

You may want to take a look at Turjuman: https://github.com/UBC-NLP/turjuman

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[Passant Elchafei]

Hi Meriem,

You could try NLLB-200-distilled-600M, pretrained multilingual MT model, it gives good results for English–Arabic translation.

Also, take a look at FineWeb-EDU-Ar (arXiv:2411.06402) — it compares several models for this task.

Regards, 

Passant 

[Meriem Sellami]

I would like to warmly thank all of you for taking the time to respond and share your feedback. 

I also have a quick question for Ahmed: could you kindly let me know which tokenizer you used in your experiments?

Best regards,
Meriem Sellami

[Mohamed Motasim Hamed]

I highly recommend reading this paper https://arxiv.org/html/2505.17894v1, which I co-authored and introduced "Mutarjim". It's a truly powerful translation solution, and it's now being translated to other organizations. The organization behind the research, "Misraj" has published some of the translation data; you can see the announcement on their LinkedIn page.

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