Dear colleagues,
We are excited to share that our new CrossAsia service, the Newspaper Research Companion (NRC), is now available in early access!
Built by the CrossAsia Lab over the past year, the NRC is an AI-powered research platform that transforms how large digitized newspaper archives can be accessed and explored. It opens up historical press to intelligent, cross-lingual discovery for the first time and was supported by Der Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.
What Is the Newspaper Research Companion?
The NRC enables researchers to query, read, and analyse historical newspaper collections across multiple languages through a single interface, working entirely in their own language. In its current version, the NRC covers over 32.9 million article chunks drawn from 66 newspaper titles in German, Chinese (Traditional, Simplified, and Classical), English, and Russian, spanning the years 1785 to 2014. To view the full list of included titles, see the Resources table on NRC homepage.
Rather than matching keywords, the NRC understands the intent behind a question and retrieves material that is genuinely relevant to the research need, much like asking a knowledgeable colleague who happens to have read millions of historical newspaper articles across multiple languages.
Please find out more about this service in the CrossAsia Blog!