Ildikó Barna gave a presentation titled “An analysis on the framing of Trianon and the Holocaust in Hungary using Natural Language Processing” at the EuMePo (European Memory Politics) Jean Monnet Network conference on 15th June, 2023, Budapest, co-authored by Árpád Knap. In their research, they examined the discursive framing of Trianon and the Holocaust in today’s Hungarian online media. Their corpus contained 26,519 articles connected to these two historical events published between September 2017 and September 2020. They used a mixed-method approach by combining LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) topic models and qualitative methods. Their aim was not only to map the latent thematic structure and the discourses about Trianon and the Holocaust but also to identify the main differences in the rhetoric of the different sides of the political spectrum. They identified many discursive differences between the rhetoric of the different political sides. Yet, the different relationship to emotions has the most far-reaching consequences. In the far-right and progovernment media, emotions play an essential role, while the rhetoric featured in the nongovernment media, detaches itself from emotions.
Ildikó Barna’s work was supported by the K-134428 NKFIH grant, and Árpád Knap’s work was supported by the EuMePo Jean Monnet Network (Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union) and NKFIH New National Excellence Program.