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+# hmByT5 - Preliminary Language Models
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+Preliminary Historic Multilingual and Monolingual ByT5 Models. Following languages are currently covered:
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+* English (British Library Corpus - Books)
+* German (Europeana Newspaper)
+* French (Europeana Newspaper)
+* Finnish (Europeana Newspaper)
+* Swedish (Europeana Newspaper)
+* Dutch (Delpher Corpus)
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+More details can be found in [our GitHub repository](https://github.com/stefan-it/hmByT5).
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+# Acknowledgements
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+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.
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+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 ❤️