Impresso — Media Monitoring of the Past

Leveraging an unprecedented corpus of newspaper and radio archives, Impresso - Media Monitoring of the Past 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. The second Impresso project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF 213585) and the Luxembourg National Research Fund (17498891) as part of the Sinergia / INTER funding programmes. Since 2023, we are working together with Western European partners to build, enrich, integrate, and analyze a corpus of historical newspaper and radio sources. To this end, the project team pursues discipline-specific yet intertwined research objectives in natural language processing, design, and history.