23 September 2025 – Miklós Sebők’s presentation on AI-supported classification in social research at the University of Namur

On 23 September 2025, Miklós Sebők delivered a lecture at the University of Namur as part of the “Methods Seminar” series. His talk, titled Solving classification problems for social and economic research with the Babel Machine, introduced how natural language processing and large language models can be applied to the analysis of social science and economic data. He also outlined the potential of AI-driven multilingual tools for addressing classification challenges in empirical research, with examples from ongoing projects. The presentation illustrated how machine learning methods expand opportunities for computational social science by enabling richer and more scalable text analysis.