Renáta Németh
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 212228 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Renáta Németh |
| PRENOMES | Renáta |
| SOBRENOME | Németh |
| ASSINATURA | NÉMETH R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Eötvös Loránd University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6796-3563 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Post-democratic discursive hegemony – a natural language processing-based analysis of Hungarian parliamentary discourses between 1998-2020
The parliament, as a key component of the public sphere, is both a reflection of and a stage for the post-democratic transition. Our study examines Hungarian parliamentary discourse as an indicator of a transition in which democratic institutions persist yet become hollow and are repurposed for charismatic legitimacy. Using natural language processing, we analyse a corpus of all parliamentary speeches from 1998 to 2020, employing keyness analysis…
De-Democratizing the Public Sphere – A Structural Topic Model Analysis of Hungarian Parliamentary Discourses Between 1998-2020
Since 2010, Hungary has become a prime example of democratic backsliding. Our research analyzed this process based on Habermas’s theory. We selected a corpus of parliamentary debates from 1998 to 2020. Our chosen method, structural topic modeling identifies thematic clusters and communicative patterns. We explore the communicative rationality potential of the parliamentary public sphere along its potential for deliberative control over nepotist, …
Evaluating large language models on a hermeneutically complex text annotation task
The study examines whether large language models (LLMs) are capable of interpreting individual framings of depression in online forums - a challenging annotation task involving categories that are neither mutually exclusive nor trivial from a hermeneutic perspective. Using a corpus annotated by two annotators, the texts and categories that posed difficulties for human interpretation were identified, and the LLMs were prompted to report their conf…
Sound symbolism in size perception
Sound symbolism – the systematic association between phonetic properties and meaning – plays a prominent role in size ratings, where particular speech sounds shape perceptions of magnitude. This paper explores two previously understudied dimensions of size-sound symbolism: (1) the impact of child-directed speech (CDS) on size judgments, and (2) the alignment between participants’ self-reported and actual rating strategies. The first section provi…
Exploring the use of retrieval-augmented generation models in higher education
The role of artificial intelligence in education is growing, but its impact on teaching and learning remains unclear. This paper examines an artificial intelligence tutor like ChatGPT, enhanced with retrieval-augmented generation, in a pilot project at two universities. The advantage of retrieval-augmented generation in higher education is that lecturers can take control of the underlying literature used by the large language model. Four courses …
Intergroup contact buffers influence of objective and perceived peer norms on prejudice among adolescents
The evolution of the ‘Carpathian Basin’ discourse in the Hungarian parliament (1998-2020)
We explore the use of the term ?Carpathian Basin? in the Hungarian Parliament 1998-2020. The ?Carpathian Basin? is a term of Hungarian geography, historically used to justify Hungary?s territorial claims during the interwar period. While it was absent from official discourse for decades, it has recently gained traction among Hungary?s politicians. By processing 1525 speeches, we examine changes in the discourse of three major political blocs (rig…
Depression in times of a pandemic – the impact of Covid-19 on the lay discourses of e-mental health communities
The article aims at exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lay discourses of depression emerging in online mental health forums. The narrative framing of depression plays a central role not only because it affects the instrumental strategies of depressed people (e.g., preferred therapy), but also because it is a constitutive element of the identity of depressed people, thus affects the process of recovery itself. COVID-19 had a seri…
Often Overlooked Aspects of Sound Symbolism
Sound symbolism is a non-arbitrary mapping between phonetic properties and meanings. The existence and nature of sound symbolism have long been the subject of empirical research. It is rarely recognized, however, that participants’ intrinsic characteristics (e.g., age, gender, language knowledge), in addition to the commonly studied phonetic features, may also influence size ratings. Our study aims to empirically investigate the impact of partici…
How to measure gender bias in machine translation
In this paper—as a case study—we present a systematic study of gender bias in machine translation with Google Translate. We translated sentences containing names of occupations from Hungarian, a language with gender-neutral pronouns, into English. Our aim was to present a fair measure for bias by comparing the translations to a real-world oriented non-biased machine translator. When assessing bias, we used the following reference points: (1) the …
Bio, psycho, or social
Supervised machine learning on textual data has successful industrial/business applications, but it is an open question whether it can be utilized in social knowledge building outside the scope of hermeneutically more trivial cases. Combining sociology and data science raises several methodological and epistemological questions. In our study the discursive framing of depression is explored in online health communities. Three discursive frameworks…
Which is your favorite music genre? A validity comparison of Facebook data and survey data
In this study, we use a parallel mixed-method data collection: a face-to-face survey combined with personal Facebook data archive collection. Our paper is the first attempt to cross-validate the self-reported musical preference with Facebook-based music preference classification. We primarily focused on operationalization-related questions and validity issues. The results overall showed that the different measures have only moderate correlations …
Back to “normal
To what extent can civil rights NGOs protect ethnic minorities against unequal treatment? We study this question by combining an audit experiment of 1260 local governments in Hungary with an intervention conducted in collaboration with a major Hungarian civil rights NGO. In the audit experiment we demonstrated that Roma individuals were about 13 percent-points less likely to receive responses to information requests from local governments, and th…
Hivatali diszkrimináció
2020 elején a magyarországi helyi önkormányzati hivatalok körében kontrollált terepkísérletet végeztünk annak céljából, hogy feltárjuk az online ügyintézés során esetlegesen előforduló hivatali diszkrimináció nyílt és burkolt formáit. Összesen 1270 e-mailben egy hétköznapi ügyintézéssel kapcsolatban fogalmaztunk meg egyszerű kérdéseket magas és alacsony státuszú roma és nem roma ügyfelek „bőrébe bújva”. A nemzetközi eredményekkel összhangban a vá…
The asymmetries of the biopsychosocial model of depression in lay discourses - Topic modelling online depression forums
Biomedical discourse is underrepresented in lay discussions, while psychological discourse plays an overall dominant role. Even if actors are initially aware of the social mechanisms contributing to depression, they neglect these factors when it comes to considering the countermeasures
The sound of size revisited - New insights from a German-Hungarian comparative study on sound symbolism
Languages consistently display sound symbolic effects. In our study we expand size-related sound symbolic research to German and Hungarian, languages with both rounded and unrounded high front vowels as well as/ø/, so that we can separate the effect of lip rounding and vowel backness. Our subjects had to rate artificial words with CVCVCV structure. For analysis we used crossed random effect models in a way that is novel in this field. Results con…
Az automatizált szövegelemzés perspektívája a társadalomtudományokban
Cikkünkben a „Big Data” paradigma térnyerésével párhuzamosan rohamosan terjedő természetesnyelv-feldolgozási (NLP) módszereket tekintjük át. Bemutatjuk a társadalomkutatási szempontból leginkább perspektivikus eszközöket, a hozzájuk illeszthető társadalomkutatási kérdéseket és azokat a technikai-módszertani jellegzetességeket, amelyek a klasszikus kvantitatív kutatáshoz képest az NLP specifikumát jellemzik. Ezek a módszerek lényegesen túllépnek a…
Machine Learning of Concepts Hard Even for Humans
Social scientists of mixed-methods research have traditionally used human annotators to classify texts according to some predefined knowledge. The 'big data' revolution, the fast growth of digitized texts in recent years brings new opportunities but also new challenges. In our research project, we aim to examine the potential for natural language processing (NLP) techniques to understand the individual framing of depression in online forums. In t…
Digitális társadalomkutatások az Elte-n Beszámoló A társadalom kutatásának új útjai című workshop digitális társadalomkutatással foglalkozó szekcióiról
Strong Impact of Interviewers on Respondents' Political Choice
Despite much literature on interviewer effects, limited attention has been paid to party preference surveys, although the effect is expectedly strong in this field. This article analyzes interviewer effects in a face-to-face political survey. Specifically, we are interested in whether the interviewer's own party preference has an effect on the respondent's party choice. We used cross-classified two-level logistic regression models with median odd…
Discrete Graphical Models in Social Mobility Research - A Comparative Analysis of American, Czechoslovakian and Hungarian Mobility before the Collapse of State Socialism
Variants of path models have been widely used for the analysis of the social status attainment process. The methods presented here differ from earlier approaches in several ways. Social status is considered a categorical variable and path models are developed starting from graphical models, using the marginal log-linear approach. Overall model fit may be tested by standard techniques. Under these models, the status attainment process is completel…
On the Application of Discrete Marginal Graphical Models
Graphical models are defined by general and possibly complex conditional independence assumptions and are well suited to model direct and indirect associations and effects that are of central importance in many problems of sociology. Such relevance is apparent in research on social mobility. This article provides a unified view of many of the graphical models discussed in a largely scattered literature. The marginal modeling framework proposed he…
Does socioeconomic status fully mediate the effect of ethnicity on the health of Roma people in Hungary
BACKGROUND: Several models have been proposed to explain the association between ethnicity and health. It was investigated whether the association between Roma ethnicity and health is fully mediated by socioeconomic status in Hungary. METHODS: Comparative health interview surveys were performed in 2003-04 on representative samples of the Hungarian population and inhabitants of Roma settlements. Logistic regression models were applied to study whe…
A Comparative Health Survey of the Inhabitants of Roma Settlements in Hungary
Objectives. We compared the health of people living in Roma settlements with that of the general population in Hungary. Methods. We performed comparative health interview surveys in 2003 to 2004 in representative samples of the Hungarian population and inhabitants of Roma settlements. Results. In persons older than 44 years, 10% more of those living in Roma settlements reported their health as bad or very bad than did those in the lowest income q…
Representativeness Problems Inherent in Address-Based Sampling and a Modification of the Leslie Kish Grid
Problèmes de représentativité inhérents des échantillons basés sur adresses et une modification de la grille de Leslie Kish : Le problème de tirage d'une personne dans un foyer apparait souvent dans le stade fmale de l'échantillonnage basé sur adresses, par exemple dans les enquêtes par téléphone après avoir contacté le foyer. La grille de Kish foumit un algorithme pour cette sélection au hasard. En évaluant la représentativité de tels échantillo…
A Comparative Health Survey of the Inhabitants of Roma Settlements in Hungary
Objectives. We compared the health of people living in Roma settlements with that of the general population in Hungary. Methods. We performed comparative health interview surveys in 2003 to 2004 in representative samples of the Hungarian population and inhabitants of Roma settlements. Results. In persons older than 44 years, 10% more of those living in Roma settlements reported their health as bad or very bad than did those in the lowest income q…
Machine Learning of Concepts Hard Even for Humans
Social scientists of mixed-methods research have traditionally used human annotators to classify texts according to some predefined knowledge. The 'big data' revolution, the fast growth of digitized texts in recent years brings new opportunities but also new challenges. In our research project, we aim to examine the potential for natural language processing (NLP) techniques to understand the individual framing of depression in online forums. In t…
Does socioeconomic status fully mediate the effect of ethnicity on the health of Roma people in Hungary
BACKGROUND: Several models have been proposed to explain the association between ethnicity and health. It was investigated whether the association between Roma ethnicity and health is fully mediated by socioeconomic status in Hungary. METHODS: Comparative health interview surveys were performed in 2003-04 on representative samples of the Hungarian population and inhabitants of Roma settlements. Logistic regression models were applied to study whe…
Which is your favorite music genre? A validity comparison of Facebook data and survey data
In this study, we use a parallel mixed-method data collection: a face-to-face survey combined with personal Facebook data archive collection. Our paper is the first attempt to cross-validate the self-reported musical preference with Facebook-based music preference classification. We primarily focused on operationalization-related questions and validity issues. The results overall showed that the different measures have only moderate correlations …
The sound of size revisited - New insights from a German-Hungarian comparative study on sound symbolism
Languages consistently display sound symbolic effects. In our study we expand size-related sound symbolic research to German and Hungarian, languages with both rounded and unrounded high front vowels as well as/ø/, so that we can separate the effect of lip rounding and vowel backness. Our subjects had to rate artificial words with CVCVCV structure. For analysis we used crossed random effect models in a way that is novel in this field. Results con…
Intergroup contact buffers influence of objective and perceived peer norms on prejudice among adolescents
On the Application of Discrete Marginal Graphical Models
Graphical models are defined by general and possibly complex conditional independence assumptions and are well suited to model direct and indirect associations and effects that are of central importance in many problems of sociology. Such relevance is apparent in research on social mobility. This article provides a unified view of many of the graphical models discussed in a largely scattered literature. The marginal modeling framework proposed he…
Representativeness Problems Inherent in Address-Based Sampling and a Modification of the Leslie Kish Grid
Problèmes de représentativité inhérents des échantillons basés sur adresses et une modification de la grille de Leslie Kish : Le problème de tirage d'une personne dans un foyer apparait souvent dans le stade fmale de l'échantillonnage basé sur adresses, par exemple dans les enquêtes par téléphone après avoir contacté le foyer. La grille de Kish foumit un algorithme pour cette sélection au hasard. En évaluant la représentativité de tels échantillo…
Back to “normal
To what extent can civil rights NGOs protect ethnic minorities against unequal treatment? We study this question by combining an audit experiment of 1260 local governments in Hungary with an intervention conducted in collaboration with a major Hungarian civil rights NGO. In the audit experiment we demonstrated that Roma individuals were about 13 percent-points less likely to receive responses to information requests from local governments, and th…
Representativeness Problems Inherent in Address-Based Sampling and a Modification of the Leslie Kish Grid
Problèmes de représentativité inhérents des échantillons basés sur adresses et une modification de la grille de Leslie Kish : Le problème de tirage d'une personne dans un foyer apparait souvent dans le stade fmale de l'échantillonnage basé sur adresses, par exemple dans les enquêtes par téléphone après avoir contacté le foyer. La grille de Kish foumit un algorithme pour cette sélection au hasard. En évaluant la représentativité de tels échantillo…
A Comparative Health Survey of the Inhabitants of Roma Settlements in Hungary
Objectives. We compared the health of people living in Roma settlements with that of the general population in Hungary. Methods. We performed comparative health interview surveys in 2003 to 2004 in representative samples of the Hungarian population and inhabitants of Roma settlements. Results. In persons older than 44 years, 10% more of those living in Roma settlements reported their health as bad or very bad than did those in the lowest income q…
Does socioeconomic status fully mediate the effect of ethnicity on the health of Roma people in Hungary
BACKGROUND: Several models have been proposed to explain the association between ethnicity and health. It was investigated whether the association between Roma ethnicity and health is fully mediated by socioeconomic status in Hungary. METHODS: Comparative health interview surveys were performed in 2003-04 on representative samples of the Hungarian population and inhabitants of Roma settlements. Logistic regression models were applied to study whe…
Discrete Graphical Models in Social Mobility Research - A Comparative Analysis of American, Czechoslovakian and Hungarian Mobility before the Collapse of State Socialism
Variants of path models have been widely used for the analysis of the social status attainment process. The methods presented here differ from earlier approaches in several ways. Social status is considered a categorical variable and path models are developed starting from graphical models, using the marginal log-linear approach. Overall model fit may be tested by standard techniques. Under these models, the status attainment process is completel…
On the Application of Discrete Marginal Graphical Models
Graphical models are defined by general and possibly complex conditional independence assumptions and are well suited to model direct and indirect associations and effects that are of central importance in many problems of sociology. Such relevance is apparent in research on social mobility. This article provides a unified view of many of the graphical models discussed in a largely scattered literature. The marginal modeling framework proposed he…
Strong Impact of Interviewers on Respondents' Political Choice
Despite much literature on interviewer effects, limited attention has been paid to party preference surveys, although the effect is expectedly strong in this field. This article analyzes interviewer effects in a face-to-face political survey. Specifically, we are interested in whether the interviewer's own party preference has an effect on the respondent's party choice. We used cross-classified two-level logistic regression models with median odd…
Digitális társadalomkutatások az Elte-n Beszámoló A társadalom kutatásának új útjai című workshop digitális társadalomkutatással foglalkozó szekcióiról
Az automatizált szövegelemzés perspektívája a társadalomtudományokban
Cikkünkben a „Big Data” paradigma térnyerésével párhuzamosan rohamosan terjedő természetesnyelv-feldolgozási (NLP) módszereket tekintjük át. Bemutatjuk a társadalomkutatási szempontból leginkább perspektivikus eszközöket, a hozzájuk illeszthető társadalomkutatási kérdéseket és azokat a technikai-módszertani jellegzetességeket, amelyek a klasszikus kvantitatív kutatáshoz képest az NLP specifikumát jellemzik. Ezek a módszerek lényegesen túllépnek a…
Machine Learning of Concepts Hard Even for Humans
Social scientists of mixed-methods research have traditionally used human annotators to classify texts according to some predefined knowledge. The 'big data' revolution, the fast growth of digitized texts in recent years brings new opportunities but also new challenges. In our research project, we aim to examine the potential for natural language processing (NLP) techniques to understand the individual framing of depression in online forums. In t…
Hivatali diszkrimináció
2020 elején a magyarországi helyi önkormányzati hivatalok körében kontrollált terepkísérletet végeztünk annak céljából, hogy feltárjuk az online ügyintézés során esetlegesen előforduló hivatali diszkrimináció nyílt és burkolt formáit. Összesen 1270 e-mailben egy hétköznapi ügyintézéssel kapcsolatban fogalmaztunk meg egyszerű kérdéseket magas és alacsony státuszú roma és nem roma ügyfelek „bőrébe bújva”. A nemzetközi eredményekkel összhangban a vá…
The asymmetries of the biopsychosocial model of depression in lay discourses - Topic modelling online depression forums
Biomedical discourse is underrepresented in lay discussions, while psychological discourse plays an overall dominant role. Even if actors are initially aware of the social mechanisms contributing to depression, they neglect these factors when it comes to considering the countermeasures
The sound of size revisited - New insights from a German-Hungarian comparative study on sound symbolism
Languages consistently display sound symbolic effects. In our study we expand size-related sound symbolic research to German and Hungarian, languages with both rounded and unrounded high front vowels as well as/ø/, so that we can separate the effect of lip rounding and vowel backness. Our subjects had to rate artificial words with CVCVCV structure. For analysis we used crossed random effect models in a way that is novel in this field. Results con…
How to measure gender bias in machine translation
In this paper—as a case study—we present a systematic study of gender bias in machine translation with Google Translate. We translated sentences containing names of occupations from Hungarian, a language with gender-neutral pronouns, into English. Our aim was to present a fair measure for bias by comparing the translations to a real-world oriented non-biased machine translator. When assessing bias, we used the following reference points: (1) the …
Bio, psycho, or social
Supervised machine learning on textual data has successful industrial/business applications, but it is an open question whether it can be utilized in social knowledge building outside the scope of hermeneutically more trivial cases. Combining sociology and data science raises several methodological and epistemological questions. In our study the discursive framing of depression is explored in online health communities. Three discursive frameworks…
Which is your favorite music genre? A validity comparison of Facebook data and survey data
In this study, we use a parallel mixed-method data collection: a face-to-face survey combined with personal Facebook data archive collection. Our paper is the first attempt to cross-validate the self-reported musical preference with Facebook-based music preference classification. We primarily focused on operationalization-related questions and validity issues. The results overall showed that the different measures have only moderate correlations …
Back to “normal
To what extent can civil rights NGOs protect ethnic minorities against unequal treatment? We study this question by combining an audit experiment of 1260 local governments in Hungary with an intervention conducted in collaboration with a major Hungarian civil rights NGO. In the audit experiment we demonstrated that Roma individuals were about 13 percent-points less likely to receive responses to information requests from local governments, and th…
Depression in times of a pandemic – the impact of Covid-19 on the lay discourses of e-mental health communities
The article aims at exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lay discourses of depression emerging in online mental health forums. The narrative framing of depression plays a central role not only because it affects the instrumental strategies of depressed people (e.g., preferred therapy), but also because it is a constitutive element of the identity of depressed people, thus affects the process of recovery itself. COVID-19 had a seri…
Often Overlooked Aspects of Sound Symbolism
Sound symbolism is a non-arbitrary mapping between phonetic properties and meanings. The existence and nature of sound symbolism have long been the subject of empirical research. It is rarely recognized, however, that participants’ intrinsic characteristics (e.g., age, gender, language knowledge), in addition to the commonly studied phonetic features, may also influence size ratings. Our study aims to empirically investigate the impact of partici…
Exploring the use of retrieval-augmented generation models in higher education
The role of artificial intelligence in education is growing, but its impact on teaching and learning remains unclear. This paper examines an artificial intelligence tutor like ChatGPT, enhanced with retrieval-augmented generation, in a pilot project at two universities. The advantage of retrieval-augmented generation in higher education is that lecturers can take control of the underlying literature used by the large language model. Four courses …
Intergroup contact buffers influence of objective and perceived peer norms on prejudice among adolescents
The evolution of the ‘Carpathian Basin’ discourse in the Hungarian parliament (1998-2020)
We explore the use of the term ?Carpathian Basin? in the Hungarian Parliament 1998-2020. The ?Carpathian Basin? is a term of Hungarian geography, historically used to justify Hungary?s territorial claims during the interwar period. While it was absent from official discourse for decades, it has recently gained traction among Hungary?s politicians. By processing 1525 speeches, we examine changes in the discourse of three major political blocs (rig…
Post-democratic discursive hegemony – a natural language processing-based analysis of Hungarian parliamentary discourses between 1998-2020
The parliament, as a key component of the public sphere, is both a reflection of and a stage for the post-democratic transition. Our study examines Hungarian parliamentary discourse as an indicator of a transition in which democratic institutions persist yet become hollow and are repurposed for charismatic legitimacy. Using natural language processing, we analyse a corpus of all parliamentary speeches from 1998 to 2020, employing keyness analysis…
De-Democratizing the Public Sphere – A Structural Topic Model Analysis of Hungarian Parliamentary Discourses Between 1998-2020
Since 2010, Hungary has become a prime example of democratic backsliding. Our research analyzed this process based on Habermas’s theory. We selected a corpus of parliamentary debates from 1998 to 2020. Our chosen method, structural topic modeling identifies thematic clusters and communicative patterns. We explore the communicative rationality potential of the parliamentary public sphere along its potential for deliberative control over nepotist, …
Evaluating large language models on a hermeneutically complex text annotation task
The study examines whether large language models (LLMs) are capable of interpreting individual framings of depression in online forums - a challenging annotation task involving categories that are neither mutually exclusive nor trivial from a hermeneutic perspective. Using a corpus annotated by two annotators, the texts and categories that posed difficulties for human interpretation were identified, and the LLMs were prompted to report their conf…
Sound symbolism in size perception
Sound symbolism – the systematic association between phonetic properties and meaning – plays a prominent role in size ratings, where particular speech sounds shape perceptions of magnitude. This paper explores two previously understudied dimensions of size-sound symbolism: (1) the impact of child-directed speech (CDS) on size judgments, and (2) the alignment between participants’ self-reported and actual rating strategies. The first section provi…
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