Miklós Sebők
Research professor and director of poltextLAB. Hungarian Comparative Agendas Project research director.
Dr. Miklós Sebők is a research professor and directs the poltextLAB artificial intelligence laboratory at ELTE CSS in Budapest. He is also a research affiliate of the CEU Democracy Institute. His educational background includes an M.A. in politics from the University of Virginia and an M.A. in economics from Corvinus University of Budapest, along with a Ph.D. in Political Science from ELTE University of Budapest.
Dr. Sebők serves as research director of the Hungarian Comparative Agendas Project and principal investigator of the V-SHIFT Momentum research project funded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was a research director of the Artificial Intelligence National Lab at ELTE CSS. He leads the "BABELGLOB" Excellence research project sponsored by the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office. Additionally, he serves as executive director of the COMPTEXT conference and international advisory board member of the Italian Political Science Review.
Dr. Sebők co-created the ParlLawSpeech dataset, the ParlText dataset, the MediaText dataset, and the Hungarian Comparative Agendas Project datasets. He serves as work package leader of the ENO-PROMPT project and SPINE project, both sponsored by the European Commission.
Publications Record
His research has appeared, inter alia, in Business and Politics, Comparative European Politics, Computational Communication Research, East European Politics, Europe-Asia Studies, European Journal of Political Research, European Political Science, European Political Science Review, International Political Science Review, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Legislative Studies, Journal of Public Policy, Policy Studies, Policy Studies Journal, Political Analysis, Social Science Computer Review, and Socio-Economic Review.
Book chapters have been published by Edward Elgar Publishing, Oxford, and Palgrave. He edited the first Hungarian handbook on "Quantitative Text Analysis and Text Mining in Political Science" (L'Harmattan, 2016) and "Text Mining and Artificial Intelligence in R" (Typotex, 2021), and co-edited Policy Agendas in Autocracy and Hybrid Regimes: The Case of Hungary (Palgrave, 2021).
Peer Review Service
Dr. Sebők has served as reviewer for American Politics Research, British Journal of Political Science, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Economics & Politics, European Journal of Development Research, Governance, Hungarian Political Science Review, Hungarian Review of Sociology, International Area Studies Review, International Journal of Social Welfare, Intersections – East European Journal of Society and Politics, Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Party Politics, Policy and Politics, Policy Studies Journal, Political Analysis, Political Research Exchange, Political Science Research and Methods, Politics & Policy, Quality and Quantity, Regulation & Governance, Representation, SAGE Open, Socio-Economic Review and Theory and Practice of Legislation.
Academic Engagement
Dr. Sebők has been invited to deliver talks at Duke Kunshan University, the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, SciencesPo Paris, Syracuse University, Université de Namur, University of Catania, University of Kentucky, University of Tampa, University of Texas at Austin, and the Department of Government of the University of Vienna.
He is recipient of the Kolnai Prize for best research publication and the Bibó Prize for lifetime achievements in the discipline, both awarded by the Hungarian Political Science Association.
Additional Information
For a Hungarian version, see /bio/hu.
For a bio focusing on achievements in the field of political economy, see /bio/polecon.
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