Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital/Computational History

Your role

• Conduct original data-driven historical research on the theme of “media influences”
• Develop innovative computational research methods building on Impresso’s corpus of multilingual newspaper and radio sources provided by a network of Western European partners
• Contribute to the design of the Impresso Web App and the Impresso Datalab together with a team of designers and experts in natural language processing and history
• Contribute an interactive notebook based on a research case study to be published on the Impresso Datalab

Impresso – Media Monitoring of the Past II. Beyond Borders: Connecting Historical Newspapers and Radio is an interdisciplinary research project that leverages an unprecedented corpus of newspaper and radio archives, and uses machine learning to pursue a paradigm shift in the processing, semantic enrichment, representation, exploration and study of ...