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 11–15
- 9 January 2026
Registration open: Generative AI CourseV-ShiftOn January 29, 2026, poltextLAB will hold a full-day training on Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in the center of Budapest. The program is designed for researchers and professionals who work with documents, writing, or data and want to understand ho… - 12 December 2025
Miklós Sebők honoured with the Bibó István Memorial PrizeV-ShiftOn 12 December 2025, Miklós Sebők received the Bibó István Memorial Prize, awarded by the Hungarian Political Science Association. The prize, founded in 2014, is regarded as the most prestigious lifetime achievement award in Hungarian political science and is … - 9 December 2025
Nathalie Neptune’s second workshop on geospatial and policy data at poltextLABV-Shift - 2 December 2025
Miklós Sebők served as panel chair for the session on metadata pipelines at the 17th European DDI Users ConferenceV-ShiftOn 2 December 2025, Miklós Sebők served as panel chair of a session at the 17th European DDI Users Conference. The main theme of the panel was about the METACURATE-ML project within the “ESRC Future Data Services Programme”. Further details of the event can be… - 24 November 2025
poltextLAB serves as a host for Momentum MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme – Applications are welcome!V-Shift
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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