Month: March 2024

26 March, 2024 – Melinda Manczinger presents AI analysis of climate frames at the ECPR Joint Sessions

On March 26th, Melinda Manczinger presented the paper (co-authored by MiklĂłs SebƑk and Áron BuzogĂĄny) entitled “Evoking and Contesting Expertise in Parliaments: An AI-supported Analysis of Climate Change Debates in Seven Countries” at the Tracing Climate Policy Linkages using Text-as-Data: New Perspectives, ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops at Leuphana University, in LĂŒneburg. The programme of the workshop is available here: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/WorkshopDetails/14470. 

26 March, 2024 – Ákos HolĂĄnyi’s presentation on New Pact on Migration and Asylum at the ECPR Joint Sessions

On March 26th, Ákos HolĂĄnyi presented the paper entitled “Negotiating the New Pact on Migration: does populism explain the outcome of Council of the EU deliberations?” at the Populist ‘Unpolitics’: How Populist Governments Affect EU Policymaking, ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops at Leuphana University, in LĂŒneburg. The programme of the workshop is available here: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/WorkshopDetails/14468. 

23 March, 2024 – New publication by Orsolya Ring, IstvĂĄn Üveges et al. in Language Resources and Evaluation about sentiment analysis of Hungarian news

On March 23, 2024, a new article has been published by Orsolya Ring, Martina Katalin SzabĂł, Csenge Guba, BendegĂșz VĂĄradi and IstvĂĄn Üveges in the  Language Resources and Evaluation. The title of the article is:  “Approaches to sentiment analysis of Hungarian political news at the sentence level.” The publication is available here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10579-023-09717-5. 

14 March, 2024 – Hajo G. Boomgaarden’s lecture on “The challenge of measuring disinformation”

On March 14, Hajo G. Boomgaarden gave a lecture at the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Political Science. The title of his lecture was “The challenge of measuring disinformation.”  Hajo G. Boomgaarden is Professor of Methods in the Social Sciences with a focus on Text Analysis at the Department of Communication, University of Vienna. Much of his work revolves around the analysis of (news) media coverage and its effects on political cognitions, attitudes and behaviour. He has co-authored more than 40 articles in international journals and numerous book chapters. As Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Vienna, Hajo Boomgaarden deals with further advancements of computerized methods of text analysis and multimedia analysis, in addition to his ongoing work on political communication.

12 March, 2024 – MiklĂłs SebƑk’s presentation at the MILAB LegalTech Meetup on the NLP research at poltextLAB

On 12 March 2024, MiklĂłs SebƑk gave a presentation entitled “Analysis of legal regulations with AI-based large language models in the poltextLAB research laboratory” at a professional meeting of the Artifical Intelligence National Laboratory (MILAB) and MONTANA Knowledge Management Ltd. The event’s topic was natural language processing and the possibilities of using large language models in the field of legal text processing.  The presentations of the 5th MILAB Meetup are available here (in Hungarian): https://mi.nemzetilabor.hu/hu/hirek/sikerrel-lezajlott-az-otodik-milab-meetup-ami-az-mi-es-jog-kerdeskoret-jarta-korbe. 

27 February, 2024 – Orsolya Ring’s presentation at the EDMO (European Digital Media Observatory) Scientific Conference

On February 27 2024, Orsolya Ring and László Kiss presented their paper titled “Uncovering Disinformation: Analyzing The Thematic Patterns And Emotional Content Of Hungarian Fake News Portals During The COVID-19 Pandemic And The Ukrainian War” at the EDMO (European Digital Media Observatory) Scientific Conference in Amsterdam. This study aims to understand the patterns of fake news with advanced AI-based approaches such as LDA topic modelling and state-of-the-art large language models. The programme of the conference is available here:https://edmo.eu/event/edmo-scientific-conference-2024/