Contemporary Basque Student Handwritten

The Contemporary Basque Student Handwritten model is a Basque AI model in Transkribus designed to transcribe learners' handwriting in Basque. It achieves a Character Error Rate (CER) of 4.77% on the training set and 6.07% on the validation set. The dataset consists of school-based texts written by adolescent students aged 12–16. Original errors in the handwriting were preserved and transcribed verbatim. The model was trained on a corpus of 51,195 words in Basque, collected from various schools in the Basque Autonomous Community in 2023. Further details and an accompanying research paper will be made available soon. The model training was conducted by Mikel Iruskieta (HiTZ - Ixa, UPV/EHU) and Roberto Arias-Hermoso (Mondragon Unibertsitatea).