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LondonLB

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LondonLB is a fine-tuned version of microsoft/deberta-v3-base that identifies personal names in Reginald R. Sharpe's Calendar of Letter-Books of the City of London, volumes A to I (c. 1275–1422). It was built to support research on medieval London naming practices, in particular the transition from by-names to hereditary family names, by making it possible to extract every named individual from roughly 14,800 calendar entries. On a held-out gold-standard set of 200 entries containing 1,136 names, the model reaches an exact-match F1 of 0.977, and finds 1,135 of the 1,136 names at least partially. The model is intended for researchers working with Sharpe's calendar who want to locate personal…