---
title: Machine Translation
type: templates
category: Natural Language Processing
cat: natural-language-processing
order: 225
meta_title: Machine Translation Data Labeling Template
meta_description: Template for providing translations of text with Label Studio for your machine learning and data science projects.
---

<img src="/images/templates/machine-translation.png" alt="" class="gif-border" width="552px" height="408px" />

If you want to improve existing machine translation capabilities, you want to provide a dataset with robust and accurate translation examples. Use this template to read a text in one language and store a translation in another language.

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## Labeling Configuration

```html
<View>
  <View style="display: grid; grid-template: auto/1fr 1fr; column-gap: 1em">
    <Header value="Read the text in English" />
    <Header value="Provide translation in Spanish" />
  <Text name="english" value="$english" />
  <TextArea name="spanish" toName="english" transcription="true" 
            showSubmitButton="true" maxSubmissions="1" editable="true"
            required="true" rows="5"/>
  </View>
</View>
```

## About the labeling configuration

All labeling configurations must be wrapped in [View](/tags/view.html) tags.

Use styling on the View tag to place the two text samples and headers side by side:
```xml
<View style="display: grid; grid-template: auto/1fr 1fr; column-gap: 1em">
```

You can add a [header](/tags/header.html) to provide instructions to the annotator:
```xml
<Header value="Read the text in English" />
<Header value="Provide translation in Spanish" />
```

Use the Text object tag to specify the text to be translated:
```xml
<Text name="english" value="$english" />
```
  
Use the TextArea control tag to provide an editable, required text box to provide a translation of the text, and include a Submit button for annotators:
```xml
<TextArea name="spanish" toName="english" transcription="true" 
            showSubmitButton="true" maxSubmissions="1" editable="true"
            required="true" rows="5"/>
```

## Related tags

- [View](/tags/view.html)
- [Header](/tags/header.html)
- [Text](/tags/text.html)
- [TextArea](/tags/textarea.html)