Month: April 2021

29 April, 2021 – Speech by Orsolya Ring at conference organised by MILAB and the Digital Wellbeing Program Orsolya Ring gave a talk entitled ‘Measuring Customer Satisfaction through the Evaluation of Texts’ at the online conference jointly organised by MILAB and the Digital Wellbeing Program (Digitális Jólét Program). The online conference examined the effects the recent boom in language technology has had on customer services. More information about the conference is available on the event’s website (in Hungarian).

14 April, 2021 – New publication: Article by Miklós Sebők, Kristin Makszin and Jasper Simons in East European Politics Miklós Sebők, Kristin Makszin and Jasper Simons’ new article entitled ’Mission adapted: the hidden role of governors in shaping central bank operating missions in Hungary’ has been published in the East European Politics journal. ABSTRACT: ’Despite the diffusion of the paradigm of central bank independence, there is still meaningful variation in the operating missions of central banks both across countries and over time. Through a detailed qualitative case study, this article develops the concept of the operating mission of the central bank and applies it to the case of the Hungarian National Bank (MNB) to provide a more complete understanding of mission shift. Our findings demonstrate the critical role of policy agency, as the central bank governors moulded the operating mission of the central bank, even in the face of dominant international norms.’ The full article is available here. (OpenAccess)

14 April, 2021 – The CLARIN project ends with fruitful results poltextLAB’s CLARIN project came to a successful end. The annotated corpus consisting of 3086 parliamentary speeches can be accessed through the following link and on poltextLAB’s GitHub page.