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 tags:
 - dialect
 - low-resource languages
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+### Model Description
+
+Meertje is intended as a dialect classifier, developed at the Meertens Institute to distinguish between dialect material and Standard Dutch.
+The model was trained on the Dialect Novel Corpus, using a subcorpus of linguistic material from Drenthe.
+
+
+### Intended Use
+
+Isolating dialect material from Dutch texts containing both dialect and Standard Dutch.
+
+
+### Training Data
+
+Sentences containing Drents vs. Standard Dutch sentences. Balanced train/dev/test at 2122/730/730.
+
+### Evaluation
+
+| Material          | F1 (weighted avg) | support |
+| ----------------- | ----------------- | ------- |
+| Test set (Drents) | 0.95              | 730     |
+| Drents            | 0.95              | 7362    |
+| Gronings          | 0.94              | 605     |
+| Twents            | 0.98              | 1496    |
+| Zeeuws-Vlaams     | 0.90              | 3231    |
+
+
+### Further Resources
+
+Background article on the Meertje-project ([NL](https://meertens.knaw.nl/2026/03/05/kan-een-computer-dialect-herkennen/) or [Eng](https://www.the-low-countries.com/article/can-a-computer-recognise-dialect/))
+[Finetuning script](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1XYuAeNQQrCZMvq24mdMRPNeay-MNhPrz?usp=sharing) (Colab Notebook)
+[Usage script](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/16LyvCtORY4NBo4PpN-Xwo_lP0zH2hwOI?usp=sharing) (Colab Notebook)