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
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- 6 February, 2023poltextLAB presentation at the Hungarian Conference on Computational LinguisticsV-Shift · poltextlab_adminOn January 26-27, 2023, the Institute of Informatics of the University of Szeged hosted the Hungarian Conference on Computational Linguistics for the nineteenth time, which presented research and results in the field of language technology. At the conference, …
- 13 December, 2022An emotion corpus for research purposes is available on poltextLAB’s GitHubV-Shift · poltextlab_adminOrsolya Ring and István Üveges created the emotion corpus which is available on the project’s GitHub page. “The (manually annotated) HunEmPoli corpus was built using pre-agenda speeches from the 2014-2018 parliamentary term, and was created within the framewor…
- 8 December, 2022New publication: Creating an Enhanced Infrastructure of Parliamentary Archives for Better Democratic Transparency and Legislative Research – Rebeka Kiss, Miklós SebőkV-Shift · poltextlab_adminRebeka Kiss and Miklós Sebők published a paper entitled 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 …
- 8 December, 2022Text Mining and Artificial Intelligence training programmeV-Shift · poltextlab_adminOn the 1st of December 2022, Orsolya Ring and Ákos Máté held a beginners course of the “Text Mining and Artificial Intelligence Training Programme”. The course introduced the theoretical and practical foundations of text mining and artificial intelligence app…
- 22 November, 2022Data Visualisation in R course by Ákos MátéV-Shift · poltextlab_adminOn Tuesday, 8 and 15 November 2022, Ákos Máté held a course entitled Data Visualization in R. The aim of the course was to provide a practical and interactive overview of data visualization using the ggplot2 package in R. We covered the basic concepts of data …
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
15 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
- 2023-05-12Annual COMPTEXT Conference — Glasgow
- 2022-06-15Parliamentary Data for Better Democracy — Brussels
- 2022-05-06Annual COMPTEXT Conference — Dublin
- 2020-05-03Annual COMPTEXT Conference — Online
- 2019-09-13Annual COMPTEXT Conference — Tokyo
- 2018-05-09POLTEXT International Workshop — Budapest
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