Domonkos Sik published his results in the journal called East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures with the following title: ” Populist Juggling with Fear: The Case of Hungary”.

Zsófia Rakovics gave a presentation entitled ” Memory Politics in the Hungarian Parliament ” at the CENTRAL Workshop: Notion and Construction of Victimhood in Central East and Southeast Europe, held in Vienna, 8-11 February 2023.

Eszter Katona and Renáta Németh gave a presentation entitled ” Carpathian Basin-related topics in Hungarian parliamentary speeches. A concept related to Hungary’s self-definition ” at the CENTRAL Workshop: Notion and Construction of Victimhood in Central East and Southeast Europe, held in Vienna, 8-11 February 2023.

Zsuzsanna Boda and Zsófia Rakovics published their results in the journal Szociológiai Szemle with the following title: ” Analysis of Viktor Orbán’s speeches between 2010 and 2020: Investigating the issue of migration”.

Renáta Németh published her results in the Journal of Computational Social Science with the following title: “A scoping review on the use of natural language processing in research on political polarization: trends and research prospects”.

Domonkos Sik gave a conference presentation entitled “The autonomy of poiesis – the interaction of social structures and discursive possibilities” at the conference “The Fundamental issues of social theory” at the National University of Public Service (3-4 November 2022).

Zsófia Rakovics presented her research results entitled “Analysis of migration discourses based on parliamentary speeches” at the Hungarian Sociological Association’s annual meeting between the 14th and 15th October, 2022 (hosted by the University of Miskolc). The presentation was part of the ’Challenges of international migration’ section.

Eszter Katona and Mihály Fazekas (CEU) presented their research results entitled “Identifying competition restrictions as a corruption risk in public procurement procedures using natural language processing” at the Hungarian Sociological Association’s annual meeting between the 14th and 15th October, 2022 (hosted by the University of Miskolc). The presentation was part of the ’Quantitative methodological innovations’ section.

Renáta Németh presented her research results entitled “The role of domain knowledge in social research applications of data science” at the Hungarian Sociological Association’s annual meeting between the 14th and 15th October, 2022 (hosted by the University of Miskolc). The presentation was part of the ’Quantitative methodological innovations’ section.

Zsófia Rakovics (ELTE RC2S2) and Márton Rakovics (ELTE RC2S2) gave a presentation at the Text.Machnine.Society conference (organized by ELTE RC2S2) entitled „Analysis of parlementary speeches with document embedding” on 20.09.2022.

Renáta Németh (ELTE RC2S2) gave a presentation at the Text.Machnine.Society conference (organized by ELTE RC2S2) entitled „Researching language polarization with NLP: methodological challenges based on a scoping review (generalizability, role of domain knowledge, mixed methods, causal inference)” on 20.09.2022.

Árpád Knap (ELTE RC2S2), Tímea Emese Tóth (ELTE RC2S2) and Ildikó Barna (ELTE RC2S2) gave a presentation at the Text.Machnine.Society conference (organized by ELTE RC2S2) entitled „Emotions in the word embeddings of articles about Trianon Peace Treaty and the Holocaust, and possible tools for automated emotion detection” on 20.09.2022.

Jakab Buda (ELTE RC2S2), Bori Simonovits (ELTE PPK), Renáta Németh (ELTE RC2S2) gave a presentation at Text.Machine.Society conference (organized by ELTE RC2S2) entitled „Official discrimination? – Measuring attentional discrimination using natural language processing” on 20.09.2022.

Jakab Buda, Renáta Németh and co-authors published their results in Language Resources and Evaluation (D1).

Megjelent Buda Jakab, Németh Renáta és társszerzőik publikációja a Language Resources and Evaluation (D1) hasábjain.

Ákos Szigeti’s (NKE) report has been published about the workshop examining the sociological perspective of data mining. Ildikó Barna, Renáta Németh (opening lecture) and Domonkos Sik participated from us; the workshop was the Módszeresen series’ ninth episode, the series’ main organizer is Renáta Németh.

Following a previous presentation, Eszter Katona, a member of our research group, was invited to the ICSA (International Conference on Sustainability Analysis) conference on 15.07.2022. The panel is entitled “Challenges and recent advancements in corruption risk assessment”. Eszter presented her research with her co-supervisor, Mihály Fazekas.

Following a previous presentation, Eszter Katona, a member of our research group, was invited to the ICSA (International Conference on Sustainability Analysis) conference on 15.07.2022. The panel is entitled “Challenges and recent advancements in corruption risk assessment”. Eszter presented her research with her co-supervisor, Mihály Fazekas.

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Zsófia Rakovics and Márton Rakovics will display the results of their research entitled “Semantic evolution of words in Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán’s speeches using a temporal word embedding model focusing on the issue of migration” at the poster section of the 8th International Conference on Computational Social Science IC2S2 (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, IL, USA), July 19-22, 2022.

Domonkos Sik gave a presentation entitled “Populist Juggling with Fear – the Case of Hungary” at The End of “Freedom” in Central and Eastern Europe? Addressing the Challenges of an Illiberal Turn (9-11. June 2022) conference organized by Andrássy University Budapest. 

Eszter Katona gave a presentation at the annual conference of the Centre for Social Sciences, entitled “Corruption risk in public tenders: using text mining to detect restrictions on competition ” on 3 June, 2022.

Zsófia Rakovics gave a presentation at the annual conference of the Centre for Social Sciences, entitled “Analyzing the semantic evolution of words related to migration in prime ministerial speeches using a temporal word embedding model” on 3 June, 2022.

Tímea Emese Tóth gave a presentation entitled “Analysis of the Twitter discourse on sustainability using the method of natural language processing” at the Centre for Social Sciences’ annual conference on June 3, 2022. The performance was a great success, with Emese receiving the Special Award for the Best Doctoral Presentation in the non-doctoral section.

06.03.2022, Friday

Simultaneous sections. Sociology’s place in historical researches. | WHERE? >> room K.012 | WHEN? >> 06.03., Friday 9AM starting | RC2S2 participant >> Ildikó Barna, Alexandra M. Szabó

Simultaneous sections.  Application of text analytics in social sciences. | WHERE? >> rooms K.013 and K.014 | WHEN? >> 06.03., Friday 11 AM starting | RC2S2 participant >> Eszter Katona, Árpád Knap, Zsófia Rakovics, Tímea Emese Tóth

The conference can be attended in person and online.

Emese Tímea Tóth, a member of our research group, writes about the sustainability discourse on Twitter. Mesi’s doctoral topic, related to our OTKA research, examines the discourse of sustainability in the triad of political publicity, online media platforms and the lay public.

A visualisation of Fanni, Eszter and Árpád’s previous research was also exhibited at this year’s Data Stories event. https://datastoriesceu.org/gallery/happy-birthday-information-society

The primary aim of the research is to use NLP tools to review the themes that the journal has introduced into the domestic discourse of “information society studies” over the past 15 years, and to explore the thematic structure of the journal. In addition to content analysis, the research provides insights into the co-authorship network of the journal’s contributors and the relationship between authors and specific topics.

To read: https://doi.org/10.22503/inftars.XXI.2021.1.1

To view: https://inftars.infonia.hu/inftars20?lang=hu

The latest publication by Ildikó Barna and Árpád Knap was published in the journal Nationalities Papers (D1). In their paper, they examined the thematic structure and discursive framing in newspaper articles related to the Trianon Peace Treaty and the Holocaust using LDA topic models and qualitative analysis. The article is open access.