Some of the highlights from the Slovene Language Technologies and Digital Humanities (JTDH 2022) conference: Peter Rupnik, Michal Mochtak and Nikola Ljubešić introducing ParlaSent-BCS Dataset of Sentiment-annotated Parliamentary Debates, also available at our repository. #ParlaMint
How did #Chinese diplomacy talk about foreign countries in 2023? Based on our #data , the #US recorded the most #negative sentiment, while #developing countries were the most #positive – China’s #neighbours and #developed countries (minus the US) being in between. Michal Mochtak
Going to European Consortium for Political Research in Prague #ecprgc23 ? Don’t miss the compelling panels in our section on #DigitalAuthoritarianism with great scholars presenting their work, e.g. Lisa Garbe Kris Ruijgrok Marcus Michaelsen Pauline Lemaire Lena Ulbricht Michal Mochtak @Restrauc Adrian del Rio and many more!
The CMFA PressCon Corpus reached its first big milestone - 1000 downloads! I think the recently released 2021 update is starting to kick in 👀doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BA… Richard Turcsanyi
Great news ! I had just started to write a python script to webscrap the MFA press conference corpus.
Can't wait to dive deep into Richard Turcsanyi & Michal Mochtak 's treasure trove of data for my NLP research! 📊💻 #DigitalHumanities #China
10yrs #Montenegro independence! See Michal Mochtak on #democratization & electoral violence bit.ly/1YR1JV2
Election monitoring reports from OSCE/ODIHR correlate w expert assessment of #ElectoralIntegrity . But, there is a strong and positive bias towards Russia + allies, indicating defensive and lenient stances, say Michal Mochtak, A. Drnovsky & C. Lesschaeve tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Our January 2022 issue is out!
Including the 2021 Leonard Schapiro lecture by Peter A. Hall and fantastic analyses by Alex Hemingway Tobias Brils jasper muis Teodora Jana Birke Belschner Casper Sakstrup Michal Mochtak Robert Mainwaring Josh Holloway
👉 ow.ly/rmQX50HmXB2
A major #update to our #Chinese MFA press conferences #dataset to include #SentimentAnalysis of each question and answer! Besides, another year has been added to cover the 2002-2023 period with more than 30 thousand questions and answers. doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BA… Michal Mochtak
Our #article is 'officially' out! We use new data and innovative methods to study whether #China #influence #CEE countries' positions and discourse in the #UN General Assembly. Hint: No, it didn't (except for #Serbia ) #OpenAcess ! Michal Mochtak link.springer.com/article/10.100…
In our January 2022 issue -
How do politicians in post-war societies talk about the past war? How do they discursively represent vulnerable social groups created by the conflict?
Michal Mochtak, Josip Glaurdić and Christophe Lesschaeve find out - ow.ly/ouj750HElz3
Check out our January 2022 issue!
Including the 2021 Leonard Schapiro lecture by Peter A. Hall and great analyses by Alex Hemingway Tobias Brils jasper muis Teodora Jana Birke Belschner Casper Sakstrup Michal Mochtak Robert Mainwaring Josh Holloway.
👉 ow.ly/rmQX50HmXB2
Great to see our research of #Chinese #MFA #discourse attracts attention and appears among such other impressive research! Michal Mochtak
Read how Russia and its allies have pushed OSCE/ODIHR into being more lenient. Not the kind of bias they like to complain about. Check our new paper in Democratization (OA). Original corpus data validated on expert assessments by V-Dem Institute. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Hast off to MFA presser database by Richard Turcsanyi Michal Mochtak that saved me a lot of googling and going through dead links for pre-2022 pressers. dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?…
New article mapping the war discourse in #Bosnian Parliament. Analysis of two decades of #parliamentary debates show the central #conflict exists primarily alongside #Bosniak – #Serb grievances, redefining the three-sided stalemate of Bosnian politics. OA. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Studying Chinese Foreign Policy Narratives: Introducing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Conferences Corpus - covers 2002-2020, a great new resource for studying PRC foreign policy from Michal Mochtak & Richard Turcsanyi link.springer.com/article/10.100…
🇨🇳Chinese diplomats more positive about the US in 2021, shows MFA press conference analysis
In an update to their dataset, Richard Turcsanyi and Michal Mochtak analyse China’s foreign policy discourse in 2021.
Check out the whole article:
ceias.eu/chinese-diplom…