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What's in our corpus?
On the occasion of the first public release of the impresso interface, we wish to take stock of our newspaper corpus. More than a year has passed since the last corpus update…
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Call for papers - Digitised newspapers - a new Eldorado for historians ?
The large-scale digitisation of newspapers over the past decade has facilitated access to newspaper collections but also raised a series of issues for both libraries and users, and more specifically researchers: What does it mean to work in new ways with the traditional historical sources that are newspapers? How does the formal transformation of this source from analogue, microfilm and paper collections to digital ones affect research practices and questions?
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Explore the list of topics on the impresso interface
Along the release of the first version of the impresso interface, we present a special feature: the topic modelling exploration page, with a visualisation of the topics. Here, we explain briefly how we prepared the topics and how the articles were indexed with these topics.
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About Topic Modeling on historical newspapers ...
Trading zone part 4: Topic modeling. This blog post is the last part of Stepping in the NLP / History trading zone: a series of posts.
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Digital Humanities - a Challenging Research Field
Julien Nguyễn Đăng, intern to the impresso project in the summer 2018, prepared a feedback on his experience, reflecting on the challenges it poses for research and teaching.
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A second round of co-design session in Belval. Designers and historians discussing the first interface prototype
impresso Lavender workshop, Université du Luxembourg (Campus de Belval)
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Moving beyond digital filters. How to integrate the digitised press into the historian’s workflow
impresso Laurel workshop, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
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Text re-use detection in a nutshell
Trading zone part 3: Text Re-use Detection. This blog post is the last part of Stepping in the NLP / History trading zone: a series of posts.
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Named entity processing in a nutshell
Trading zone part 1: Named Entity Processing. This blog post is part of Stepping in the NLP / History trading zone: a series of posts.
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Trading zone between NLP and History - a post series
Stepping in the NLP / History trading zone: a series of posts
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State of impresso newspaper collection - April 2018
State of impresso newspaper collection - April 2018
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Call for Associated Researchers
Call for Associated Researchers to work on 19th – 21st century European historical newspapers as part of an interdisciplinary research project (limited funding available)
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Materialising the co-design with a consortium meeting in Basel
On 22 and 23 February, the impresso consortium held a workshop at the Swiss Economic Archives in Basel, Switzerland, hosted by Irene Amstutz and Elias Kreyenbühl whom we warmly thank for their welcome.
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Understanding the historians needs in their use of digitised newspapers
On the morning of 8 February, a group of historians using newspapers for their research at the C2DH were invited to attend a second impresso user workshop.
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Sunny and promising kick-off meeting
On 24-25th of October 2017, the impresso consortium had its first workshop and kick-off meeting, hosted by DHLAB on the beautiful EPFL campus.
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