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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 – Miklós Sebők’s presentation at the MILAB LegalTech Meetup on the NLP research at poltextLAB

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On 12 March 2024, Miklós Sebők 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.

5 March, 2024 – Miklós Sebők received the “Researcher of the Year” award of IPS CSS

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On March 5, 2024, the Institute for Political Science of the Centre for Social Sciences presented the ‘Researcher of the Year’ award to Miklós Sebők. Congratulations!

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

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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/

14 February, 2024 – New blog post by Miklós Sebők and Rebeka Kiss on the PSA Parliaments blog

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On 14 February 2024, the blog post of Miklós Sebők and Rebeka Kiss was published on the website of the UK Political Studies Association Specialist Group on Parliaments. The title of the post is: “The (worst) laws of the land: The concept of legislative basket cases in Central-Eastern Europe”.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/.

25 January, 2024 – Presentation by Miklós Sebők at the Hungarian Computational Linguistics Conference

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On 25 January 2024, Miklós Sebők 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.

10 January, 2024 – poltextLAB is on the list of winners for the ECPR Research Development Grant

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PoltextLAB has been the beneficiary of the Research Development Grant of ECPR in 2023. With the help of the grant, we have organised the international workshop “Studying Central-Eastern European Politics in the Age of AI” in Budapest at the Centre for Social Sciences.

10 January, 2024 – New researchers joined poltextLAB

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poltextLAB welcomes four new researchers, one data scientist and one developer. Their short bio and areas of expertise are available here.

24 November, 2023 – “Studying Central-Eastern European Politics in the Age of AI”

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On November 23rd and 24th, poltextLAB organized a data presentation workshop focused on Central-Eastern European Politics and machine learning. During the 2-day event, 12 papers were presented from the fields of media, law, policy and parliamentary politics. The conference programme and the photo gallery are available here: https://poltextlab.com/events/.

20 November, 2023 – New publication by Miklós Sebők, Sven-Oliver Proksch, Christian Rauh, Péter Visnovitz, Gergő Balázs, Jan Schwalbach

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On November 20, 2023, a new article has been published by Miklós Sebők, Sven-Oliver Proksch, Christian Rauh, Péter Visnovitz, Gergő Balázs, Jan Schwalbach in the International Political Science Review. The title of the article is: “Comparative European legislative research in the age of large-scale computational text analysis: A review article.” The article is available here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01925121231199904.