On April 20, 2024, a new article has been published by MiklĂłs SebĆk (co-authored by  Amnon Cavari and Akos Mate) in the Policy Studies Journal. The title of the article is âStaying on the democratic script? A deep learning analysis of the speechmaking of U.S. presidents.â The publication is available here: https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12534.Â
On March 26th, Melinda Manczinger presented the paper (co-authored by MiklĂłs SebĆk and Ăron BuzogĂĄny) entitled âEvoking and Contesting Expertise in Parliaments: An AI-supported Analysis of Climate Change Debates in Seven Countriesâ 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 …
On March 26th, Ăkos HolĂĄnyi presented the paper entitled âNegotiating the New Pact on Migration: does populism explain the outcome of Council of the EU deliberations?â at the Populist âUnpoliticsâ: How Populist Governments Affect EU Policymaking, ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops at Leuphana University, in LĂŒneburg. The programme of the workshop is available here:Â https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/WorkshopDetails/14468.Â
On March 23, 2024, a new article has been published by Orsolya Ring, Martina Katalin SzabĂł, Csenge Guba, BendegĂșz VĂĄradi and IstvĂĄn Ăveges in the  Language Resources and Evaluation. The title of the article is: “Approaches to sentiment analysis of Hungarian political news at the sentence level.â The publication is available here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10579-023-09717-5.Â
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 âThe challenge of measuring disinformation.â 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 …
On 12 March 2024, MiklĂłs SebĆk gave a presentation entitled “Analysis of legal regulations with AI-based large language models in the poltextLAB research laboratoryâ at a professional meeting of the Artifical Intelligence National Laboratory (MILAB) and MONTANA Knowledge Management Ltd. The eventâs topic was natural language processing and the possibilities of using large language models …
On March 5, 2024, the Institute for Political Science of the Centre for Social Sciences presented the âResearcher of the Yearâ award to MiklĂłs SebĆk. Congratulations!
On February 27 2024, Orsolya Ring and LĂĄszlĂł Kiss presented their paper titled âUncovering Disinformation: Analyzing The Thematic Patterns And Emotional Content Of Hungarian Fake News Portals During The COVID-19 Pandemic And The Ukrainian Warâ at the EDMO (European Digital Media Observatory) Scientific Conference in Amsterdam. This study aims to understand the patterns of fake news …
On 14 February 2024, the blog post of MiklĂłs SebĆk and Rebeka Kiss was published on the website of the UK Political Studies Association Specialist Group on Parliaments. The title of the post is: âThe (worst) laws of the land: The concept of legislative basket cases in Central-Eastern Europeâ.The article is available here: https://psaparliaments.org/2024/02/14/the-worst-laws-of-the-land-the-concept-of-legislative-basket-cases-in-central-eastern-europe/.
On 25 January 2024, MiklĂłs SebĆk participated as an invited speaker at the Hungarian Computational Linguistics Conference in Szeged. The title of his presentation was “Large Language Models in Comparative Politics: Classification of Public Policy Topics with the Babel System”. The conference programme is available here: https://rgai.inf.u-szeged.hu/mszny2024/program.Â