Data

File format

The format of the data files is defined by the opennmt.inputters.Inputter used by your model.

Text

All opennmt.inputters.TextInputters expect a text file as input where:

• sentences are separated by a newline
• tokens are separated by a space (unless a custom tokenizer is set, see Tokenization)

For example:

$ head -5 data/toy-ende/src-train.txt
It is not acceptable that , with the help of the national bureaucracies , Parliament 's legislative prerogative should be made null and void by means of implementing provisions whose content , purpose and extent are not laid down in advance .
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" Two soldiers came up to me and told me that if I refuse to sleep with them , they will kill me . They beat me and ripped my clothes .
Yes , we also say that the European budget is not about the duplication of national budgets , but about delivering common goals beyond the capacity of nation states where European funds can realise economies of scale or create synergies .
The name of this site , and program name Title purchased will not be displayed .

Vocabulary

For text inputs, vocabulary files should be provided in the data configuration (see for example in the Quickstart section). OpenNMT-tf uses a simple text format with one token per line, which should begin with these special tokens:

<blank>
<s>
</s>

The onmt-build-vocab script can be used to generate this file:

via training files

The script can be run directly on training files:

onmt-build-vocab --save_vocab vocab.txt train.txt

• To control the vocabulary size, see the available options onmt-build-vocab -h
• By default, train.txt is expected to be tokenized (see the Tokenization section to execute the script on non tokenized files)

via SentencePiece vocabulary

If you trained a SentencePiece model to tokenize your data, a vocabulary file *.vocab was generated in the process. This file can be converted to the OpenNMT-tf vocabulary format:

onmt-build-vocab --save_vocab vocab.txt --from_vocab sp.vocab --from_format sentencepiece

Vectors

The opennmt.inputters.SequenceRecordInputter expects a file with serialized TFRecords. We propose 2 ways to create this file, choose the one that is the easiest for you:

via Python

It is very simple to generate a compatible TFRecords file directly from Python:

import tensorflow as tf
import opennmt as onmt
import numpy as np

dataset = [
  np.random.rand(8, 50),
  np.random.rand(4, 50),
  np.random.rand(13, 50)
]

writer = tf.io.TFRecordWriter("data.records")
for vector in dataset:
  onmt.inputters.write_sequence_record(vector, writer)
writer.close()

This example saves a dataset of 3 random vectors of shape [time, dim] into the file “data.records”. It should be easy to adapt for any dataset of 2D vectors.

via the ARK text format

The script onmt-ark-to-records proposes an alternative way to generate this dataset. It converts the ARK text format:

KEY [
FEAT1.1 FEAT1.2 FEAT1.3 ... FEAT1.n
...
FEATm.1 FEATm.2 FEATm.3 ... FEATm.n ]

which describes an example of m vectors of depth n and identified by KEY.

See onmt-ark-to-records -h for the script usage. It also accepts an optional indexed text file (i.e. with lines prefixed with KEYs) to generate aligned source vectors and target texts.

Alignments

Guided alignment requires a training alignment file that uses the “Pharaoh” format, e.g.:

0-0 1-1 2-4 3-2 4-3 5-5 6-6
0-0 1-1 2-2 2-3 3-4 4-5
0-0 1-2 2-1 3-3 4-4 5-5

where a pair i-j indicates that the ith word of the source sentence is aligned with the jth word of the target sentence (zero-indexed).

This file should then be added in the data configuration:

data:
  train_alignments: train-alignment.txt

params:
  guided_alignment_type: ce

Pretrained embeddings

Pretrained embeddings can be configured in the data section, e.g.:

data:
  source_embedding:
    path: data/glove/glove-100000.txt
    with_header: True
    case_insensitive: True
    trainable: False

The format of the embedding file and the options are described in the load_pretrained_embeddings function.

Data location

By default, the data are expected to be on the same filesystem. However, it is possible to reference data stored in HDFS, Amazon S3, or any other remote storages supported by TensorFlow. For example:

data:
  train_features_file: s3://namebucket/toy-ende/src-train.txt
  train_labels_file: hdfs://namenode:8020/toy-ende/tgt-train.txt

For more information, see the TensorFlow documentation:

• How to run TensorFlow on Hadoop
• How to run TensorFlow on S3

Parallel inputs

When using opennmt.inputters.ParallelInputter, as many input files as inputters are expected. You have to configure your YAML file accordingly:

data:
  train_features_file:
    - train_source_1.records
    - train_source_2.txt
    - train_source_3.txt

  # If you also want to configure the tokenization:
  source_2_tokenization: ...
  source_3_tokenization: ...

  # If you also want to configure the embeddings:
  source_2_embedding: ...
  source_3_embedding: ...

Similarly, when using the --features_file command line option of the main script (e.g. for inference or scoring), a list of files must also be provided:

onmt.main infer [...] \
    --features_file test_source_1.records test_source_2.txt test_source_3.txt