Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital History

University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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The Impresso project at the University of Luxembourg is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher to help pioneer new approaches to data-driven media history across languages and modalities.

Leveraging an unprecedented corpus of newspaper and radio archives, Impresso - Media Monitoring of the Past (https://impresso-project.ch/ ) is an interdisciplinary research project that uses machine learning to pursue a paradigm shift in the processing, semantic enrichment, representation, exploration, and study of historical media across modalities, time, languages, and national borders.

To complete our team in Luxembourg, we are recruiting a Postdoctoral researcher in digital history. In this role, you will help us achieve Impresso’s goal to link historical newspaper and radio collections and to develop novel interfaces to enable their exploratory and computational analysis.

  • Conduct original data-driven historical research on newspaper and radio sources
  • Contribute to the development of 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
  • Engage in outreach activities such as workshops, conferences, trainings and teaching and user evaluations
  • Contribute to other Impresso work packages as needed and participate in on-site meetings with partners in Switzerland

For any questions, please contact Marten Düring (marten.during@uni.lu ).


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