German Fraktur 18th-20th century
Model details
Creator(s)
University of Zurich
Language(s)
Centuries
18th, 19th, 20th
CER on Validation Set
0.5%
Size (Nr. of Words)
273,440
Model ID
49007
About this Model
The model is based on 167 title pages from the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) covering the years 1780 to 1940. About 273 400 words had been trained for this model and the CER on the validation set is 0.50% (every 10th page has been taken as validation set). The model is provided by the Computational Linguistics Group (Simon Clematide, Philip Ströbel) from the University of Zurich within the framework of the Impresso project. https://impresso-project.ch/
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