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# hmByT5 - Language Models

Historic Multilingual and Monolingual ByT5 Models. Following languages are currently covered:

* English (British Library Corpus - Books)
* German (Europeana Newspaper)
* French (Europeana Newspaper)
* Finnish (Europeana Newspaper)
* Swedish (Europeana Newspaper)
* Dutch (Delpher Corpus)
* Norwegian (NCC)

More details can be found in [our GitHub repository](https://github.com/stefan-it/hmByT5).

# Acknowledgements

We thank [Luisa März](https://github.com/LuisaMaerz), [Katharina Schmid](https://github.com/schmika) and
[Erion Çano](https://github.com/erionc) for their fruitful discussions about Historic Language Models.

Research supported with Cloud TPUs from Google's [TPU Research Cloud](https://sites.research.google/trc/about/) (TRC).
Many Thanks for providing access to the TPUs ❤️