Orsolya Ring

Orsolya Ring received her Ph.D. in History from ELTE University of Budapest. She works in the poltextLAB Project of the ELTE Centre for Social Sciences on the creation and classification of large-scale media and social media corpora, and on developing a domain-specific method for sentiment and emotion analysis that applies various machine learning methods. She is also working on building large-scale historical text corpora and analyzing them using NLP methods.

She is the co-leader of the poltextLAB Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and principal investigator of the Visegrad Fund project “Identifying News Slant in Crisis Communication Using AI” (2023-2025). She also serves as co-work package leader in the EU co-financed PROMPT project (Predictive Research On Misinformation & Propagation Trajectories, 2024-2026) and the Horizon Europe MORES project (Moral Emotions in Politics, 2024-2026). Additionally, she is a senior researcher in the MOMENTUM V-SHIFT project funded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2023-2028). She is co-creator of the Babel Machine multilingual text analysis platform and the MORES Pulse emotion classification tool.

Her research focuses on the intersection of computational text analysis and historical methods, with particular emphasis on Central and Eastern European media systems, verification practices under authoritarian pressure, and multilingual NLP for low-resource languages. She has developed expertise in both archival research on Cold War-era materials and advanced computational methods, including transformer models, sentiment and emotion analysis, and large-scale corpus analysis.

Prior to her current position, she spent 17 years (2000-2017) at the Hungarian National Archives, serving as Head of Department (2016-2018) and Deputy Head of Department (2014-2016), where she led teams of 20+ archivists and conducted pioneering research on unofficial cultural networks and opposition movements during the communist period.

Her work has appeared in Social Science Computer Review, Language Resources and Evaluation, Information, Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, and Intersections – East European Journal of Society and Politics.

She is a recipient of the Innovation Award from ELTE Faculty of Humanities (2023) for innovative teaching methods and a Book Publication Grant from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2019).

She serves as editor for Intersections: East European Journal of Society and Politics (2023-present) and Korall – Social History Journal (2018-present). She has expertise in Hungarian, Polish, Czech, and Slovak contexts, with extensive networks across CEE archives and research centres.

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