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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- 7 May, 2022poltextLAB at the COMPTEXT conferenceV-Shift · poltextlab_adminMembers of PoltextLAB attended a conference of the COMPTEXT international text mining network in Dublin from 6 to 7 May. Miklós Sebők is a member of the conference’s organizing committee. Prior to the conference, Ákos Máté held a workshop on May 5 entitled “Da…
- 22 April, 2022Miklós Sebők’s lecture at the “There is something new under the Sun“ conferenceV-Shift · poltextlab_adminThe head of poltextLAB presented his latest results on empirical text mining of legislation, including research on the legislative stability index, which is based on an automated, dictionary-based text mining approach to the analysis of law amendment-type rela…
- 13 April, 2022Article by Miklós Sebők, Bálint György Kubik, Csaba Molnár, István Járay and Anna Székely in European Political ScienceV-Shift · poltextlab_adminA new article by Miklós Sebők, Bálint György Kubik, Csaba Molnár, István Járay and Anna Székely was published in the European Political Science journal. The title of the article is Measuring legislative stability: a new approach with data from Hungary. “While …
- 12 April 2022New extension of CAP Datasets on parliamentary speeches and questionsV-Shift · poltextlab_adminCAP datasets have been extended again. From now, they include data on parliamentary speeches, oral questions and pre-agenda speeches between 1994-1998 and 2021-2022, interpellations and urgent questions between 2021 and 2022 and post-agenda speeches between …
- 4 April 2022Extension of CAP Datasets on laws, parliamentary questions, speeches, parties, committees and members of governmentV-Shift · poltextlab_adminDatasets of the Hungarian CAP Project have been significantly extended recently. Thus it is useful to overview these new data. The CAP Law dataset has included the period 2018-2022, the Urgent questions and Interpellations datasets have included the period …
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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