Month: September 2024

On September 26, 2024, a new article has been published by Miklós Sebők, Orsolya Ring, Márk György Kis, Martin Balázs Bánóczy and Ágnes Dinnyés in the Journal of Computational Social Science. The title of the article is “The geopolitics of vaccine media representation in Orbán’s Hungary—an AI-supported sentiment analysis.” The publication is available here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42001-024-00325-z.

The poltextLAB team’s Babel Machine project has been highlighted as an open call success story among the SLICES-SC Open Call winners, who have benefitted from the SLICES infrastructure. Our participation in the SLICES-SC project lasted from April 2023 to August 2024, during which the team was able to use the imec research group iLab.t’s GPULab infrastructure. The GPULab is a testbed with 125+ GPUs with over 570.000+ cuda cores and 1.8TB+ GPU RAM for AI research and every research that needs GPUs. The flyer detailing the success story can be downloaded here: https://slices-sc.eu/an-open-call-success-story-i-the-babel-machine/

Miklós Sebők has been chosen as one of the winners of the first tier of the Excellence programme, belonging to the National Research, Development and Innovation Office’s National Research Excellence Programme. The “BABELGLOB: A State-of-the-Art AI Tool for the Global Analysis of Policy Frames” project has received 50 million HUF in funding. Further reading (in Hungarian): https://nkfih.gov.hu/hivatalrol/sajtokozlemenyek/ket-kutato-nyert

On June 26, 2024, Miklós Sebők gave a presentation entitled “No-code AI text analytics at your fingertips: research time travels with the Babel Machine” at the 4th Strategic Workshop of the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Network. In the presentation he explained how the Babel Machine, developed by poltextLAB for free academic use, can replace time-consuming traditional content analysis. With this development, the research group aims to democratise access to artificial intelligence. The presentation is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwfIgXQU_Yg