We would like to invite you to the Empirical Seminar series organized by the Institute of Economic Research, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Šancová 56 that will be held in hybrid form (online and at the library of the Institute of Economic Research, Slovak Academy of Sciences). The seminar will take place on October 27th, 2025 at 09.30 (CET).
The speaker will be Márton Kardos (School of Culture and Society – Center for Humanities Computing, Aarhus University, Denmark).
The topic of the seminar is: Applied Topic Modelling: Current Models and Applications in Policy Modelling
Author: Márton Kardos
Abstract: The presentation will be structured to i) general review of state of the art in topic modelling in 2025, ii) introduction to advanced issues in topic modelling: data visualization, dynamic models, iii) LLM integration – labelling, topic summarization. In the last part, I will show the applications of my recent Python packages (Turftopic, TopicWizard) in uncovering insights from the European Central Bank speech communication dataset.
The seminar will be co-chaired by Filip Ostrihoň.