Our research team was presented with three talks at the European Sociological Association’s conference in Porto, August 2024. Ildikó Barna, Renáta Németh, Jakab Buda (Shifting Narratives – Analyzing the Discursive Framing of Migration Connected to Russia’s War on Ukraine in Hungarian Online Media Using the Tools of Natural Language Processing, [...]

Recent output of our Celsa Research Fund supported project with researchers from the University of Leuven at the Etmaal Communication Science Conference, 2025, 3-4 February, Bruges. Authors: Sercan Kiyak, Jakab Buda, Márton Gosztonyi, Cecil Meeusen, Renáta Németh, Ildikó Barna, and Leen d'Haenens. Title: Polarization to Consensus? A Comparative Analysis of [...]

Jakab Buda, member of our research centre, gave a presentation at the CEU Doctoral Student Conference in Vienna on 17 April 2024, in connection with his doctoral research, entitled "The language of power – a machine learning based quantitative content analysis of 20 years of political discourse in the Hungarian [...]

The book "The Sociological Possibilities of Automated Text Processing" by Renáta Németh is published and available as an e-learning material by Savaria University Press. The book presents the increasingly popular "text as data" approach of recent years, allowing insight into the sociological applications of natural language processing through research conducted [...]

Our research group member Eszter Katona was in Warsaw on 3 March, 2024, where she successfully presented her research at the EDC 2024 (Elections - Democracy - Crisis) conference (co-authored by Renáta Németh, supported by the New National Excellence Programme and the recently completed NKFIH-K research of our research group). [...]

Zsófia Rakovics, a member of our research group, participated in the conTEXT conference organised by Clementine, where she spoke about the applications of word embeddings and large language models in social sciences. The conference took place at CEU on 14 November 2023, its Hungarian website can be accessed here.

The doctoral thesis of Eszter Katona, a member of our research group, entitled "Natural Language Processing in Corruption Research - New Data Sources, New Methods, New Content Issues" was published in socio.hu: Social Science Review 2023/3. The full text is available here.

Hana Syla and Zsófia Rakovics, as co-authors and as student and teacher, attended the “20 Months After the Russian Invasion in Ukraine. What Has Been Done, What Needs to Be Done in the Near Future, What Can Be Learned from the Past?” international conference on the topic of "Ukrainian Refugees [...]

The newly established Institute of Scientific Computing held its first SciComp23 conference on 7-8 November 2023 in Budapest. Our research group was also represented at the conference by Zsófia Rakovics and Renáta Németh, who gave a presentation entitled "Some sociological applications of natural language processing".

Two members of the Digital Lens research team, Alexandra Szabó and Eszter Katona, gave a presentation at the Lessons and Legacies conference in Prague, 6-8 November 2023. Ildikó Barna, the research leader, also played a key role in the conference organising committee.

The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry welcomed Ildikó Barna to the Jewish Studies Colloquium. She presented her paper "Interdisciplinary Exploration of Post-Holocaust History through Digital Tools: Opportunities and Limitations" on Tuesday, October 24, 2023.

On 15 September 2023, Márton Rakovics, a member of our Research Centre (ELTE RC2S2), gave a lecture in English on the social science applications of natural language processing at the Faculty of Law, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, in Croatia. In his presentation, he introduced the most important text [...]