Swedish newspapers late 18th century – midth of 20th century

Model details

Creator(s)

Newseye-project

Language(s)

Swedish

Centuries

CER on Validation Set

3.8%

Size (Nr. of Words)

373,108

Model ID

35917

About this Model

This model works well with Swedish print from late 18th century to midth of 20th century. For standard text in newspapers from that time error rates much below 1% were measured.
The model was created in the NewsEye project and is based on training data coming from the National Library Finland (NLF). 373100 words have been trained and the CER on the validation set is 3,8%.

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Swedish newspapers late 18th century – midth of 20th century is freely available to everyone

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