Dutch newspapers 17th century
Model details
Creator(s)
INT - Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal
Language(s)
Centuries
17th
CER on Validation Set
3.5%
Size (Nr. of Words)
116,287
Model ID
48942
About this Model
This Dutch mixed roman/gothic model has been trained from a ground truth set of 100 images of 17th century Dutch newspaper material from the “Couranten Corpus”, cf. https://couranten.ivdnt.org/corpus-frontend/couranten/about.
The corpus consists of ground truth transcriptions of newspapers digitized by the Dutch National Library.
The model was trained with default parameters, with a 10% validation set.
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Dutch newspapers 17th century is freely available to everyone
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