The shifting global allegiances of the Visegrád countries in a time of war
The MOMENTUM project strives to forge the definitive account of the shifting global allegiances of the Visegrád countries in the post-war period (hence: V-SHIFT) by the most extensive data collection and analysis to date. It will systematically analyse multiple decades worth of textual sources to unearth the changing reception of global powers within domestic politics and media. It applies cutting-edge AI methodology to quantify and evaluate the presence of, and attitudes towards, global powers on the domestic policy agenda in V4 countries. V-SHIFT is a poltextLAB project, supported by MTA Lendület.

News
98 V-Shift posts · showing 46–50
- 20 March 2025
Miklós Sebők presents at ELTE on AI in education and scienceV-Shift · poltextlab_admin - 12 March 2025
Miklós Sebők presents the AI-solutions of the Babel Machine in ViennaV-Shift · poltextlab_adminMiklós Sebők gave a presentation on making computational methods more accessible to a broader community at the Computational Communication Science Lab of the University of Vienna. In his talk, titled “Leveraging Large Language Models and Generative AI for Soci… - 12 March 2025
Miklós Sebők’s presentation on the Challenges of Global AI Governance at the Portfolio ClubV-Shift · poltextlab_adminPresentation by Miklós Sebők, director of poltextLAB, at the Portfolio Signature PRO investors’ club event titled “The Limits of Global AI Governance and Hungary’s Position in the Intensifying AI Race.” In his presentation, he discussed the AI competition betw… - 28 February 2025
Interview by Miklós Sebők on global AI regulation in NépszavaV-Shift · poltextlab_adminThe Hungarian daily newspaper, Népszava interviewed Miklós Sebők, director of poltextLAB, on the global regulation of artificial intelligence (AI). The discussion covered the European Union’s AI Act, the differing approaches of the US and China, as well as the… - 26 February 2025
Presentation by Miklós Sebők about the Babel Machine at the Second Budapest Winter WorkshopV-Shift · poltextlab_adminThe Second Budapest Winter Workshop took place on February 26-27, 2025, in Budapest, at the HUN-REN Centre for Economic and Regional Studies and Corvinus University, organized by ANETI Lab and the Center for Collective Learning (CCL). The event focused on the …
Invited Speaker Series
11 sessions — click to expand
- 2026-06-04Annelise Russell, Sean TheriaultRoundtable on the Politics of Information
- 2026-04-21Seth SchindlerGeopolitical Rivalry and the Future of Globalization
- 2025-12-09Nathalie NeptuneAn Integrated Geospatial–Policy Analysis of Forest Loss in Hungary
- 2025-10-02Nathalie NeptuneIntegrating Geospatial and Legislative Data on Forest Policy and Fire Management in Hungary
- 2025-02-25Gennadii IakovlevAffective Elite Polarization in European Parliamentary Speeches: A Novel Measurement Approach Using Large Language Models
- 2024-11-21Hubert PlisieckiBeyond the Black Box: Addressing Participant Bias in Machine Learning and Lexicon Models for Emotion Prediction from text
- 2024-10-17Jakub StauberThe Narratives of the War in Ukraine in Czech News Media
- 2024-06-18Sean TheriaultThe Policy Agendas of a Global Power: The Case of the Holy See
- 2024-05-21MA and PhD Student Presentations
- 2024-03-14Hajo BoomgaardenThe challenge of measuring disinformation
- 2023-09-28Aron BuzoganyCivil society in rougher neighborhoods
Workshops & conferences
9 events — click to expand
- 2026-04-238th Annual COMPTEXT Conference
- 2026-02-19Bratislava Methods Workshop — LLMs and Generative AI: Applications in Political Science, Public Policy, and Law
- 2025-04-247th Annual COMPTEXT Conference
- 2025-02-27GenAI Training
- 2025-02-14Prague Methods Workshop — LLMs and Generative AI: Advancing Policy Frame and Media Narrative Analysis
- 2024-11-212nd Budapest Methods Workshop — LLMs and Generative AI: Social Science Applications and Legal Aspects
- 2024-11-14Workshops for Ukraine
- 2024-05-02Annual COMPTEXT Conference — Amsterdam
- 2023-11-231st Budapest Methods Workshop — Studying CEE Politics in the Age of AI
Publications
V-SHIFT outputs are listed with every other publication on the full publication list.
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Funding
This research was supported by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences under the Lendület (Momentum) Programme, grant no. LP2023-16/2023 (V-SHIFT research group), 2023–2028.
Principal Investigator
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