OUR RESEARCH

Publications

2025

Miklós SEBƐK, Sándor KOZÁK, Ágnes TƐRÖS:
Drifting Away from the U.S. and Integrating with China? ‘Eastern opening’ and the FDI-realignment of Hungary during the Orbán regime, Europe-Asia Studies (2025, forthcoming)
DOI: Coming Soon – Repository – Additional cited material

Rebeka KISS, Miklós SEBƐK:
The Concept of Tailor-made Laws and Legislative Backsliding in Central-Eastern Europe, Comparative European Politics (2025, forthcoming) 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41295-024-00403-6 – Repository

Miklós SEBƐK, Csaba MOLNÁR, Anna TAKÁCS:
Levelling up quantitative legislative studies on Central-Eastern Europe: Introducing the ParlText CEE Database of Speeches, Bills, and Laws, Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics (2025)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v10i4.1327

Orsolya RING, Krzysztof RYBINSKI:
International Organisations legitimation in the media in Eurasian post-socialist countries, Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics (2025)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v10i3.1296

 

2024

MiklĂłs SEBƐK, Orsolya RING, MĂĄrk György KIS, Martin BalĂĄzs BÁNÓCZY, Ágnes DINNYÉS:
The geopolitics of vaccine media representation in Orbán’s Hungary—an AI-supported sentiment analysis, Journal of Computational Social Science (2024)
DOI: 10.1007/s42001-024-00325-z – Repository

Miklós SEBƐK, Ákos MÁTÉ, Orsolya RING, Viktor KOVÁCS, Richárd LEHOCZKI:
Leveraging Open Large Language Models for Multilingual Policy Topic Classification: The Babel Machine Approach, Social Science Computer Review (2024)
DOI: 10.1177/08944393241259434 – Repository

Amnon CAVARI, Akos MATE, Miklós SEBƐK:
Staying on the Democratic Script? A Deep Learning Analysis of the Speechmaking of U.S. Presidents, Policy Studies Journal (2024)
DOI: 10.1111/psj.12534 – Repository

Orsolya RING, Martina Katalin SZABÓ, Csenge GUBA, BendegĂșz VÁRADI, IstvĂĄn ÜVEGES:
Approaches to sentiment analysis of Hungarian political news at the sentence level, Language Resources and Evaluation (2024)
DOI: 10.1007/s10579-023-09717-5 – Repository

2023

MiklĂłs SEBƐK, Sven-Oliver PROKSCH, Christian RAUH, PĂ©ter VISNOVITZ, GergƑ BALÁZS, Jan SCHWALBACH:
Comparative European legislative research in the age of large-scale computational text analysis: A review article, International Political Science Review (2023)
DOI: 10.1177/01925121231199904

Miklós SEBƐK, Fruzsina GÁRDOS-OROSZ, Rebeka KISS, Istvån JÁRAY:
The Transparency of Constitutional Reasoning: A Text Mining Analysis of the Hungarian Constitutional Court’s Jurisprudence, Studia Iuridica Lublinensia (2023)
DOI: 10.17951/sil.2023.32.3.11-44 – Repository

Ákos MÁTÉ, Miklós SEBƐK, Lukasz WORDLICZEK, Dariusz STOLICKI, Adam FELDMANN: 
Machine Translation as an Underrated Ingredient? Solving Classification Tasks with Large Language Models for Comparative Research, Computational Communication Research (2023)
DOI: 10.5117/CCR2023.2.6.MATE – Repository

Miklós SEBƐK, Rebeka KISS, Ádåm KOVÁCS:
The Concept and Measurement of Legislative Backsliding, Parliamentary Affairs (2023)
DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsad014

István ÜVEGES, Orsolya RING:
HunEmBERT: A Fine-Tuned BERT-Model for Classifying Sentiment and Emotion in Political Communication, IEEE Access (2023)
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3285536 – Repository

Miklós SEBƐK, Rebeka KISS, Istvån JÁRAY:
Introducing HUNCOURT: A New Open Legal Database Covering the Decisions of the Hungarian Constitutional Court for Between 1990 and 2021, Journal of the Knowledge Economy (2023)
DOI: 10.1007/s13132-023-01395-6 – Repository

2022

Rebeka KISS, Miklós SEBƐK:
Creating an Enhanced Infrastructure of Parliamentary Archives for Better Democratic Transparency and Legislative Research: Report on the OPTED forum in the European Parliament (Brussels, Belgium, 15 June 2022), International Journal of Parliamentary Studies (2022)
DOI: 10.1163/26668912-bja10053

Csaba MOLNÁR:
If there is nothing else to say: the local content of interpellations, The Journal of Legislative Studies (2022)
DOI: 10.1080/13572334.2022.2127644

István ÜVEGES, Veronika VINCZE, Orsolya RING, and Csenge GUBA:
Aspect-based emotion analysis of Hungarian parliamentary speeches, Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Political Text Analysis, Potsdam, Germany (2022)
Workshop Proceedings GSCL – Repository

Orsolya RING (co-authors: TomaĆŸ ERJAVEC, Maciej OGRODNICZUK et al.):
The ParlaMint corpora of parliamentary proceedings. Language Resources and Evaluation (2022)
DOI: 10.1007/s10579-021-09574-0 – Repository

MiklĂłs SEBƐK, BĂĄlint György KUBIK, Csaba MOLNÁR, IstvĂĄn JÁRAY, Anna SZÉKELY:
Measuring legislative stability – A new approach with data from Hungary, European Political Science (2022)
DOI: 10.1057/s41304-022-00376-8 – Repository

Miklós SEBƐK, Ágnes M. BALÁZS, Csaba MOLNÁR:
Punctuated Equilibrium and Progressive Friction in Socialist Autocracy, Democracy and Hybrid Regimes, Journal of Public Policy (2022)
DOI:10.1017/S0143814X21000143 – Repository

2021

Miklós SEBƐK, Zsolt BODA (Eds.):
Policy Agendas in Autocracy, and Hybrid Regimes, London: Palgrave MacMillan (2021)
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-73223-3

Miklós SEBƐK, Orsolya RING and Ákos MÁTÉ:
Szövegbånyåszat és Mesterséges Intelligencia R-ben (Text Mining and Artifical Intelligence in R), Budapest: Typotex (2021)
PDF – Repository

Miklós SEBƐK, Kristin MAKSZIN and Jasper SIMONS:
Mission adapted: the hidden role of governors in shaping central bank operating missions in Hungary, East European Politics (2021)
DOI: 10.1080/21599165.2021.1907351

Attila GULYÁS; Martina Katalin SZABÓ; Orsolya RING, László KISS, István BOROS:
Networks of the Political Elite and Political Agenda Topics: Creation and Analysis of Historical Corpora Using NLP and SNA Methods, In TamĂĄs Rudas, GĂĄbor PĂ©li, (Eds.) Pathways between Social Science and Computational Social Science: Theories, Methods, and Interpretations, New York (NY), USA: Springer pp. 197-214 (2022)
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-54936-7_9 

Csaba MOLNÁR, Orsolya RING:
Hungarian Regimes and Their Institutional Characteristics, In SebƑk, Miklós; Boda, Zsolt (Eds.) Policy Agendas in Autocracy, and Hybrid Regimes: The Case of Hungary, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 33-62 (2021)

Orsolya RING, LĂĄszlĂł KISS:
Agenda Dynamics in Socialist Autocracy (1957–1989), In Miklós SebƑk, Zsolt Boda (Eds.) Policy Agendas in Autocracy, and Hybrid Regimes: The Case of Hungary Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 165-205 (2021)
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-73223-3_7

Martina Katalin SZABÓ, Orsolya RING, BalĂĄzs NAGY, LĂĄszlĂł KISS, JĂșlia KOLTAI, GĂĄbor BEREND, LĂĄszlĂł VIDÁCS, Attila GULYÁS, ZoltĂĄn KMETTY:
Exploring the dynamic changes of key concepts of the Hungarian socialist era with natural language processing methods, Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (2021)
DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2020.1823289

Miklós SEBƐK, Zoltán KACSUK, Ákos MÁTÉ:
The (real) need for a human touch Testing a human-machine hybrid topic classification workflow on a New York Times corpus, Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology (2021)
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-021-01287-4 – Repository

Ákos MÁTÉ, Miklós SEBƐK and Tamás BARCZIKAY:
The effect of central bank communication on sovereign bond yields: The case of Hungary, PLOS ONE (2021)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0245515 – Repository

2020

Miklós SEBƐK, Såndor KOZÁK:
From State Capture to “Pariah” Status? The Preference Attainment of the Hungarian Banking Association (2006-2014), Business and Politics (2020)
DOI: 10.1017/bap.2020.8

Miklós SEBƐK, Zoltån KACSUK:
The Multiclass Classification of Newspaper Articles with Machine Learning: The Hybrid Binary Snowball Approach, Political Analysis (2020)
DOI: 10.1017/pan.2020.27 – Repository

Miklós, SEBƐK; György, GAJDUSCHEK; Csaba, MOLNÁR (Eds.):
A magyar jogalkotĂĄs minƑsĂ©ge: ElmĂ©let, mĂ©rĂ©s, eredmĂ©nyek (The Quality of Hungarian Legislation: Theory, Measurement, Empirical Results), Budapest: Gondolat (2020)

Flóra BOLONYAI, Miklós SEBƐK:
KvantitatĂ­v szövegelemzĂ©s Ă©s szövegbĂĄnyĂĄszat (Quantitative Text Analysis and Text Mining), In AndrĂĄs Jakab, MiklĂłs SebƑk (Eds.) Empirikus jogi tanulmĂĄnyok (Empirical legal studies), Budapest: Osiris (2020)

Martina Katalin SZABÓ, Orsolya RING,  BalĂĄzs NAGY, LĂĄszlĂł KISS, JĂșlia KOLTAI, GĂĄbor BEREND, lÁSZLÓ VIDÁCS,  Attila GULYÁS,  ZoltĂĄn KMETTY:
Exploring the dynamic changes of key concepts of the Hungarian socialist era with natural language processing methods, Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (2020) 
DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2020.1823289

2019

Miklós SEBƐK, Attila HORVÁTH, Ágnes M. BALÁZS:
Electoral reforms, entry barriers and the structure of political markets: A comparative analysis, European Journal of Political Research (2019) 
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6765.12309

2018

Miklós SEBƐK, Tamås BERKI:
Punctuated Equilibrium In Democracy and Autocracy: An Analysis of Hungarian Budgeting Between 1868 and 2013, European Political Science Review (2018)
DOI: 10.1017/S1755773918000115

MiklĂłs SEBƐK, Evelin MÉSZÁROS, György MĂĄrk KIS:
A politikai elit mĂ©diareprezentĂĄciĂłja a rendszervĂĄltĂĄs utĂĄn: Egy napilap-cĂ­mlapokra Ă©pĂŒlƑ szövegbĂĄnyĂĄszati elemzĂ©s (The Media Representation of the Political Elite: A Text Mining Approach Based on Newspaper Front-Pages), PolitikatudomĂĄnyi Szemle (2018)

Evelin MÉSZÁROS, Miklós SEBƐK:
A szövegbĂĄnyĂĄszati mĂłdszerek alkalmazĂĄsĂĄnak lehetƑsĂ©gei a joggyakorlat-elemzĂ©sben (The Application of Text Mining Methods in the Analysis of Legal Practice), Forum Sententiarum Curiae (2018)

2017

Miklós SEBƐK, Tamås BERKI:
Incrementalism and Punctuated Equilibrium in Hungarian Budgeting (1991-2013), Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management (2017)
DOI: 10.1108/JPBAFM-29-02-2017-B001

Miklós SEBƐK, Bålint KUBIK, Csaba MOLNÁR:
Exercising Control and Gathering Information: The Functions of Interpellations in Hungary (1990-2014), The Journal of Legislative Studies (2017)
DOI: 10.1080/13572334.2017.1394734

Miklós SEBƐK, Bålint KUBIK, Csaba MOLNÁR:
A törvĂ©nyek formĂĄlis minƑsĂ©ge: Empirikus vĂĄzlat (The Formal Quality of Legislation: An Empirical Outline), In Zsolt Boda, Andrea SzabĂł (Eds.) Trendek a magyar politikĂĄban 2. A Fidesz Ă©s a többiek: pĂĄrtok, mozgalmak, politikĂĄk, Budapest: NapvilĂĄg KiadĂł pp. 285-310 (2017)
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2016

Miklós SEBƐK (Ed.):
KvantitatĂ­v szövegelemzĂ©s Ă©s szövegbĂĄnyĂĄszat a politikatudomĂĄnyban (Quantitative Text Analysis and Text Mining in Political Science), Budapest: L’Harmattan KiadĂł (2016)
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Useful links

The project's GITHUB page

https://github.com/poltextlab

NLP-tools, dictionaries

Adding costum stop words in R 
List of Settlements (dictionary)