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 31–35
- 24 September 2025
WORKSHOP on NLP and AI at the University of Namur, HELD BY mIKLÓS SEBŐKV-ShiftOn 24 September 2025, Miklós Sebők, Research Professor at the ELTE Centre for Social Sciences, delivered a workshop titled Using advanced AI solutions for text-based social and economic research at the University of Namur. The event introduced participants to … - 23 September 2025
Miklós Sebők’s presentation on AI-supported classification in social research at the University of NamurV-ShiftOn 23 September 2025, Miklós Sebők delivered a lecture at the University of Namur as part of the “Methods Seminar” series. His talk, titled Solving classification problems for social and economic research with the Babel Machine, introduced how natural language… - 17 September 2025
Registration open: Generative AI COURSE at Corvinus UniversityV-ShiftOn October 7, 2025, poltextLAB will hold a full-day training on Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) at Corvinus University of Budapest. The program is designed for researchers and professionals who work with documents, writing, or data and want to under… - 3 September 2025
Anna Takács's presentation at the METRISTP Workshop in NaplesV-ShiftOn September 3, 2025, Anna Takács gave a presentation titled “From Crisis-Exploitation to Sticky Narratives: A Research Agenda for the Comparative Study of Policy Crises and Illiberal Policy Frames” at the MetRiSTP workshop titled Methods for Political Science… - 12 July 2025
Miklós Sebők’s Lecture on Political Implications of AI at Bánkitó FestivalV-ShiftOn 12 July 2025, Miklós Sebők delivered a presentation titled Political Implications of Artificial Intelligence at the Bánkitó Festival. Representing the HUN-REN poltextLAB, Miklós Sebők invited the audience to reflect on the expanding role of artificial intel…
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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