Impresso Project

HIPE 2026 – Evaluating Accurate and Efficient Person–Place Relation Extraction from Multilingual Historical Texts

🔥 Announcing HIPE-2026 at CLEF 2026!
A shared task on extracting person–place relations and their temporal scope from multilingual historical texts.
Open to LLM and classic IE approaches.
Two tracks: accuracy 🎯 and efficiency 🚀.
Details 👉 hipe-eval.github.io/HIPE-2026/

📢 Impresso is hiring a Machine Learning / NLP Research Engineer at EPFL (Lausanne). Work on large-scale multilingual historical newspaper and radio archives and help build advanced NLP pipelines.

🗓️ Apply by 8 Dec 2025
📍 EPFL, Lausanne
💼 13-month contract

Details: careers.epfl.ch/job/Lausanne...

📚 Impresso took part in the Assises thématiques sur l’IA by the #MinistèreCultureLU at 1535° in Differdange. We ran a workshop on the Impresso Web App and Datalab, with hands-on testing of semantic enrichments, multilingual search, notebooks, Impresso Barista 🤖☕ and embeddings.
🔗 impresso-project.ch

🔍 Impresso Seminar 2025 is coming up: a series of short online lunchtime sessions on current research in computational media history. Join us to explore new methods and findings in press history.
📅 Check the full program and register via the form on our website: impresso-project.ch/events/histo...

🔮 The Impresso team is at #HistoFest today! Explore how witchcraft, horoscopes and superstition circulated in historical newspapers. Stop by our interactive stand to try the fortune-telling app and print your own historical horoscope 🕯️📜

📅 15 Oct 2025 – 16:30
📍 Belval Plaza (Esch-sur-Alzette)

🚀 Big release from Impresso!
Introducing the Datalab: programmatic access via API + Python, with notebooks for geospatial and network analysis & data enrichment. Plus: 53 new titles (BnF, Swiss partners), 180k+ issues & 11M items + new data access system.
More 👉 impresso-project.ch/news/2025/09...

📣 CfP: Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History?
The Impresso project is pleased to invite you to participate in its next conference, to be held in Lausanne in June 2026!
📆 The call is open until November 10, 2025
👉 Find out more here: impresso.github.io/radio-and-ne...

🇵🇹 We're happy to be part of #DH2025 in Lisbon with the Impresso Datalab Hackathon !

📆 14 July 2025, 09:00–12:30
📍 NOVA-FCSH in Lisbon, Room B203 (TB)

Scalable access + notebook-based workflows + enrichment for historical newspapers 📰📻. Check the #DH2025 program👉 dh2025.adho.org/browse-the-p...

📣 “Transmedia Histories”: We are launching a CFP for a special issue of TMG - Journal for Media History. Send us your abstracts by 🗓️ May 31! tmgonline.nl/announcement...

📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Digital History! Join our Luxembourg-based team for a 21-month Postdoctoral Researcher position. If interested, or know someone who might be, you can learn more and find the link to apply here 👉 impresso-project.ch/news/2025/03...

📣 Impresso is now live on Bluesky !
An interdisciplinary project exploring historical newspapers and radio archives through machine learning—across time, languages & borders.
Follow us here for research updates, tools & collaborations.
🔗 Visit our homepage & explore the app: impresso-project.ch