Finnish_World_War_II_letters_and_diaries

Model details

Creator(s)

Dikikäki project (Tampere University); The National Archives of Finland

Language(s)

Centuries

20th

CER on Validation Set

8.7%

Size (Nr. of Words)

52,537

Model ID

48294

About this Model

This model is a combination of handwritten private letters from World War II Finland (Tampere University Folklife Archives) and handwritten military unit diaries of the Finnish army of World War II (The National Archives of Finland). The model was trained by DIGIKÄKI – Digital History and Handwritten Sources project in Tampere University and the National Archives of Finland. For more information on DIGIKÄKI project, see: https://www.tuni.fi/en/research/digikaki-digital-history-and-handwritten-sources

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