We are proud to announce, that our colleague, Csaba Molnár published a new article, where he investigated more than 14,000 parliamentary interpellations! Avaliable at: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

We are still accepting submissions to the biggest social science text mining conference in Europe: The COMPTEXT Association 2023, May 12-13, at Strathclyde - Government and Public Policy Department of Humanities, Uni Strathclyde University of Strathclyde Submissions due by Dec 11, 2022, notification of acceptance by Feb 2023. hass.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e9…

We’ve heard a great number of intriguing presentations on Day 2 of #comptext23 so far. Looking forward to hearing many more in the afternoon panels! #languagemodels #LLMs #webscraping #partypolitics #climatechange #machinetranslation

Happy to report a new EUR 560 000 grant awarded for the project “The changing global relations of the Visegrad countries in times of war. An artificial intelligence-assisted comparative analysis”! At @poltextlab we are looking forward to working with you all on V4 Policy Agendas!

If you're interested in classifying emotion in political communication with a fine-tuned BERT model, check out our new article in IEEE Access with üveges ıstván: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10149… #AI #MachineLearning

Our research lab is growing! Come work with us as a project researcher! Apply here: linkedin.com/jobs/view/3728…

Just wrapped up our workshop on CEE Data and Methods in the age of AI @PoltextLAB . Amazing people, stimulating discussions! Humbling to experience a new field of study in AI/LLM-driven social science emerging so rapidly and looking forward to seeing these papers published!

Thanks to theresa gessler (inactive) @gessler.bsky.social Michal Parizek Jakub Stauber Ezgi Siir Kibris Daniel Schulte, Max Steuer, Sinem Kandemir, Betül Aydoğan Ünal Mehmet Yavuz, Dean Schafer and all participants!

Great pesentations and discussions on CEE data and methods in the age of AI. Thanks to Miklos SEBOK and @PoltextLAB for featuring my paper, co-authored with Peter Tillmann and Moritz Grebe. It was a pleasure! Budapest was as beautiful as always ☀️

Happy to report that poltextLAB is on the list of winners for the European Consortium for Political Research Research Development Grant. Our successful international workshop “Studying CEE Politics in the Age of AI” was made possible by this support. Thank you SG Political Methods leadership! T. Exadaktylos

The Text Mining and Artificial Intelligence course takes place today at the Centre for Social Sciences. 👩‍🏫

We are happy to report that COMPTEXT ’24 received a record number of submissions. With Mariken van der Velden and her team at VU, we are looking forward to a stimulating, diverse program related to text/image as data. Notifications will be sent by 16/02. See you all in Amsterdam in May!

We are happy to report that applications are now open for our panel on Open LLMs in Comparative Research at the First MethodsNET at UCLouvain Conference. Apply here: tinyurl.com/236du4hk. #LLM #AI #methodsnet

We are happy to announce the program of the 2nd Budapest Methods Workshop on Large Language Models and Generative AI: Social Science Applications and Legal Aspects. With poltextLAB at HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest we invite you to check out the program and register shorturl.at/kijKl!

🚨 Last Chance to Join! 🚨 Don't miss the Methods Workshop on LLMs & Generative AI for Policy Frame & Media Analysis. 🗓️ Feb 14, 2025 📍 Charles University, Prague 📝 Submit your paper by Jan 15: shorturl.at/cNU9S Charles University poltextLAB HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest

Excited to welcome Gennadii Iakovlev on Feb 25 for a guest lecture on Affective Elite Polarization in European Parliamentary Speeches! Using LLMs, his research uncovers trends in political sentiment over two decades. Don't miss it! poltextlab.com/2025/02/04/on-… #PoliticalScience #AI