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 51–55
- 25 February 2025
Guest Lecture by Gennadii Iakovlev, Organized by poltextLABV-Shift · poltextlab_adminOn February 25, 2025, Gennadii Iakovlev delivered a guest lecture as part of the poltextLAB V-Shift Lendület project. In his presentation, he introduced his research titled “Affective Elite Polarization in European Parliamentary Speeches: A Novel Measurement A… - 25 February 2025
Networks and Large Language Models Workshop Organized by poltextLAB in BudapestV-Shift · poltextlab_adminThe Networks and Large Language Models workshop was held on February 25, 2025, in Budapest at the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences. The event was jointly organized by poltextLAB and ANETILAB, focusing on the applications of large language models and network … - 21 February 2025
Miklós Sebők participated in the Hungarian Diplomatic Academy’s roundtable discussionV-Shift · poltextlab_adminMiklós Sebők participated in the “Trump’s Inauguration and Changes in the Global Order” English-language roundtable discussion, held on Friday, February 21, 2025, in Budapest. The event took place as part of the Hungarian Diplomatic Academy (MDA) and the Centr…
- 18 February 2025
ParlLawSpeech: 3 Million Parliamentary Speeches and Thousands of Laws in poltextLAB’s New DatabaseV-Shift · poltextlab_adminResearchers and data analysts now have access to the ParlLawSpeech dataset, representing a groundbreaking advancement in the analysis of political texts. The collection includes more than 40,000 legislative bills, 28,000 adopted laws, and 3 million parliament…
- 17 February 2025
New study by Miklós Sebők, Csaba Molnár and Anna Takács in Intersections on ParlText CEE databaseV-Shift · poltextlab_adminA new study by Miklós Sebők, Csaba Molnár, and Anna Takács, titled “Levelling up quantitative legislative studies on Central-Eastern Europe: Introducing the ParlText CEE Database of Speeches, Bills, and Laws”, has been published in Intersections. East European…
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.
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