Research Output and outreach
Peer-reviewed publications of project members
Ebing, B., & Glavaš, G. (2024) "To Translate or Not to Translate: A Systematic Investigation of Translation-Based Cross-Lingual Transfer to Low-Resource Languages." Forthcoming in Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2024).
Ershova, A.; Yordanova, N. and Khokhlova, A. (2023) “Constraining the Agency to Please the Public: the New Mode of Responsiveness in the EU”, Journal of European Public Policy. OnlineFirst, https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2023.2224399.
Greene, Z.; Jasinski, JM.; Roy, G.; Scotto, T. (2023) “Plundering the Liberal Democratic Tradition: The Use or Abuse of Adam Smith in Parliament, 1919 -2023.” National Institute Economic Review 265: 144-156.
Greene, Z; Alexiadou, D. (2023) “Parties in Governments and Coalitions” in the Routledge Handbook of Political Parties: Routledge: 232-242.
Kerem, S.; Ebing, B.; Baghirova, K.; Schuetze, H. & Glavaš, G.; Kardes-NLU (2024) "Transfer to Low-Resource Languages with Big Brother's Help -- A Benchmark and Evaluation for Turkic Languages." Forthcoming in the Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2024).
Litschko R., Vulić I., Glavaš G. (2022) Parameter-Efficient Neural Reranking for Cross-Lingual and Multilingual Retrieval. Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Gyeongju, https://aclanthology.org/2023.inlg-main.30.pdf.
Obaid Ul-Islam, S.; Škrjanec, I. S.; Demberg, V. D.; (2023) "Tackling Hallucinations in Neural Chart Summarization", International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG), https://aclanthology.org/2023.inlg-main.30.pdf.
Schmidt F., Vulić I., and Glavaš G. (2022) SLICER: Sliced Fine-Tuning for Low-Resource Cross-Lingual Transfer for Named Entity Recognition. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Abu Dhabi, 2022, https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.740/.
Schmidt F., Vulić I., Glavaš G. (2022) Don't Stop Fine-Tuning: On Training Regimes for Few-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer with Multilingual Language Models. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Abu Dhabi, 2022, https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.736/.
Toshkov, D.; Mazepus, H.; Yordanova, N. and Piqani, D. (2024) ‘‘Enforcement and Public Opinion: The Perceived Legitimacy of Rule of Law Sanctions.” Forthcoming in Journal of European Public Policy. OnlineFirst, https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2024.2320274.
Yordanova, N., Khokhlova A., Ershova A., Schmidt F. D., Glavaš G. (2024) “Curb EU Enthusiasm: How Politicisation Shapes Bureaucratic Responsiveness”, West European Politics, OnlineFirst, https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2024.2318998.
Yordanova, N. and Zhelyazkova, A. (2024). ‘‘Delegating Legislative Powers to the European Commission: The threat of non-compliance with tertiary legislation in the member states.” Forthcoming in Journal of Public Policy.
Dataset Releases
Sylvester, Christine; Khokhlova, Aleksandra; Yordanova, Nikoleta; Greene, Zachary, (2024) "ParlEE plenary speeches V4 data set: Annotated full-text of 18 million sentence-level plenary speeches of eight European legislative chambers", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TLKVWY, Harvard Dataverse.
Sylvester, Christine; Greene, Zachary (2023) "ParlEE plenary speeches V3 data set: Annotated full-text of 10 million sentence-level plenary speeches of six EU legislative chambers", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IETNNB, Harvard Dataverse.
Sylvester, Christine; Ershova, Anastasia; Khokhlova, Aleksandra; Yordanova, Nikoleta; Greene, Zachary (2023) "ParlEE plenary speeches V2 data set: Annotated full-text of 15.1 million sentence-level plenary speeches of six EU legislative chambers",https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VOPK0E, Harvard Dataverse.
Sylvester, Christine; Greene, Zachary; Ebing, Benedikt (2022) "ParlEE plenary speeches data set: Annotated full-text of 21.6 million sentence-level plenary speeches of eight EU states", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZY3RV7, Harvard Dataverse, V2.
Sylvester C., Greene Z., Ebing B., (2022) "ParlEE plenary speeches data set: Annotated full-text of 21.6 million sentence-level plenary speeches of eight EU states", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZY3RV7, Harvard Dataverse.
Conference Papers
Bayer, P.; Greene, Z.; Sylvester, C. “It’s All Cheap Talk: The Effects of International Climate Agreements on Domestic Political Debates”: Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) 2023 conference, the PolMeth European 2023 conference, the European Political Science Association (EPSA) 2023 conference, and the American Political Science Association (APSA) 2023 conference.
Ershova A., Khokhlova A., Yordanova N. "Haste Makes Waste? Legislative negotiations in the light of public salience, polarization and institutional conflict". Paper presented at the EPSA 2022 and European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group on the EU (SGEU) 2022 conferences.
Greene, Z.; Luhiste, M.; Sylvester, C. - Paper “Bringing Diversity to Parliament? How gender and party-level quotas impact the content of parliamentary speech”: Paper presented at the PSA Workshop on Gender and Elections 2023 and Final Conference Norface Governance 2024.
Khokhlova, A. “Informal Agenda-Setting and Collaboration in the European Parliament: Evidence from Group Parliamentary Questions” Paper presented at EPSA 2022 and the 11th Biennial Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on the European Union.
Khokhlova, A. “Issue Attention in the European Parliament: The Effect of Institutional Change on Behaviour of Eurosceptic MEPs” Paper presented at EPSA 2021 and Re:presentation seminar 2021.
Khokhlova, A. “Patterns of EP speech-making in reaction to dynamics of public opinion in EU member states” Paper presented at Council for European Studies (CES) 2023.
Khokhlova A., Ershova A., Yordanova N., Schmidt F. D. "Authority Expansion of the EU under Conditions of Contested Policy Integration". Paper presented at EPSA 2022, COMPTEXT 2022, ECPR GC 2022, ECPR SGEU 2022.
Khokhlova, A.; Yordanova, N.; and Ershova, A. - Paper “Just to be clear? European Parliament position-taking and public opinion”: Presented at EPSA 2023, CES 2023, Final Conference Norface Governance 2024.
Schober, T.; Greene, Z.; Sylvester, C. - Paper “Melting Snowflakes? Evaluating the Loss of Linguistic Uniqueness from Machine Translation for Unsupervised Scaling Models in a Comparative Perspective”. Paper presented at the COMPTEXT 2023 and EPSA 2023 conferences.
Sylvester, C.; Ebing, B.; Schmidt, F.; Glavas, G.; Greene, Z. “Mr BERT Goes to Parliament: Classifying and Scaling Parliamentary Speech in Europe using Pre-trained Language Models”. Paper presented at the EPSA 2022 conference.
Sylvester, C.; Ershova, A.; Khokhlova, A.; Yordanova, N.; Greene, Z. “Building Castles Made of Sand? The Impact of Domestic Issue Dispersion on EP Party Unity”. Paper presented at the COMPTEXT 2023, EPSA 2023, CES 2023, and APSA 2023 conferences.
Yordanova, N. Invited talk "Negotiating European Integration: Council Responsiveness to Public Opinion " at ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, 17 Oct. 2023.
Yordanova, N.; Ershova, A.; Khokhlova, A. "Leveraging politicization? National governments’ success in defining Council position for legislative negotiations". Paper presented at COMPTEXT 2023, EPSA 2023 and CES 2023.
Invited Talks
Ershova, A. Invited talk "Negotiating European Integration: Council Responsiveness to Public Opinion " at Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Algorithmic Solutions, Queen’s University Belfast, 15 Nov. 2023.
Ershova, A. Invited talk “More than one agent? Authority expansion and delegation dynamics in the EU” at the University of Strathclyde, UK, 5 Nov. 2022.
Greene, Z. Invited Talk “Bringing Diversity to Parliament” at University College Dublin, March 27, 2024.
Greene, Z. Invited Talk “Polls, Postcards and the Health of Democracy: the Role of Active Citizenship” at The Hilltop Democratic Alliance in Aurora, CO, USA, 9 January 2024.
Greene, Z. Invited Talk “Bringing Diversity to Parliament” at University College Dublin, 27 March 2024.
Greene, Z. Invited Talk “The use of LLMs for studying Party and Parliamentary Speeches” at the MiMAC “Life after ChatGPT conference at the University of Gothenburg, 13 June 2023.
Greene, Z. Invited Roundtable Participant and Chair, “Converging Engineering, Social Science, and Public Policy: Interdisciplinary strategies towards combating threats to democracy” at the Cyber Securing Elections conference co-hosted by the Stanford University and the University of Strathclyde, 27 June 2023.
Greene, Z. - Invited Talk “Screening out Diversity? The Impact of Party Rules on Parliamentary Disagreements” at the University of Gothenburg, 19 Sept. 2023.
Greene, Z. Invited Talk “Collaborations, Project Management and How Not to Lose Your Head over it” at the University of Zurich, 17 Oct. 2023.
Greene, Z. Invited Talk “Party Politics and Research Approaches” for the University of Strathclyde EPOP undergraduate course, Oct. 2023.
Greece, Z - Invited Talk “Parliamentary Speech in Comparative Context” at the Free University of Amsterdam, 4 Dec. 2023.
Yordanova, N. Invited talk "Negotiating European Integration: Council Responsiveness to Public Opinion " at ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, 17 Oct. 2023.
Greene, Z. Invited talk “Candidate Selection Criteria and Preference Diversity in Parliamentary Debate” at the University of Aberdeen, 19 Oct. 2022.
Greene, Z. Invited talk “Party Politics and Policy Responsiveness of the EU” at the University of Strathclyde’s Elections, Parties and Public Opinion seminar, 14 Nov. 2022.
Glavaš, G. Research talk “Transfer Learning for Multilingual Political Text Classification” at the NORFACE Governance Mid-Term conference, Vienna, 24 Sept. 2022.
Greene, Z. Invited talk “Keeping it in the Family: Party Cohesion, Disagreement and Voter Perception” at the Mannheim Centre for European Studies, University of Mannheim, 26 April 2021.
Greene, Z. Invited talk “Intra-Party Politics and the Result of the 2020 US Presidential Election" at Newcastle University, 5 Nov. 2020.
Yordanova, N. Invited talk “Citizens and the European Union: A Complicated Relationship?'' at INDIVEU workshop, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 13 Oct. 2021.
Blog posts by the team members
Toshkov D.D., Mazepus H., Yordanova N. & Piqani D. (26 September 2022), When the rule of law is at stake, many people support sanctions even against their own state. Leiden Security and Global Affairs Blog. The Hague: Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University [blog entry]. https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/3492026.
Ershova A. and S.A. Popa (2021) ‘The public are more likely to comply with COVID-19 measures adopted in countries they believe handled the pandemic better than the UK.’ LSE Policy and Politics Blog. Available at: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/covid19-compliance-policies-abroad/.
Greene, Z. and L. Toner (2021) `Parties’ increased reliance on online forms of communication may hold serious consequences for both their functioning and their relationship with the public.’ LSE British Politics and Policy. Available at: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/parties-online-communication/.
Greene, Z. and M Luhiste (2021) ‘Why certain lifestyles and interests may have influenced COVID-19 decision-making more than others.’ LSE British Politics and Policy Blog. Available at: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/descriptive-substantive-representation-covid19/
Yordanova N., M. Angelova, R. Lehrer, M. Osnabrügge M. and S. Renes (2020) ‘Why EU member states should take heed of the sovereignty concerns of their citizens.’ EUROPP European Politics and Policy LSE Blog. Available at: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2020/12/21/why-eu-member-states-should-take-heed-of-the-sovereignty-concerns-of-their-citizens/.
Other outreach
EUINACTION Workshop, external (Glasgow, University of Strathclyde) bringing together UK-based scholars focused on questions of parliamentary behaviour, parties and candidate selection, 24 November 2023.
EUINACTION team at the University of Strathclyde organized and hosted a workshop on the use of AI and digital communication tools at the University of Strathclyde, Nov. 2023, including participants from the ERC-funded INSTAPARTY project.
Co-organized NORFACE Governance Stakeholder Conference and EUINACTION final conference in Brussels in June 2023.
EUINACTION team at the University of Strathclyde coordinated and hosted the 2023 COMPTEXT Conference at Strathclyde.
EUINACTION team at the University of Würzburg launched the NLP Colloquium at the University of Würzburg, in collaboration with Chairs for Computational Philology and Data Science.
EUINACTION PI Goran Glavaš co-organized the 1st Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Political Text Analysis.
Interview by Zachary Greene, Fabian Schmidt and Nikoleta Yordanova for the NORFACE Governance interview series.
Aleksandra Khokhlova, Nikoleta Yordanova, and Anastasia Ershova were interviewed about their research on EU policy responsiveness. Find the news article here.
In cooperation with the Global Transformation and Governance Challenges (GTGC) research cluster at Leiden University, EUINACTION members launched and co-convened the ”Democracy and Citizenship” seminar series at Leiden University, January 2022-May 2023, where they also presented the project during the first meeting.
Our results were presented to the public and policy stakeholders at Synergy'22 on 16 June 2022.
The EUINACTION project held a poster presentation titled: "Who does the EU listen to and when? Utilizing Machine learning to understand EU policy responses" at the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) 2022, 13-16 July 2022 in Leiden (The Netherlands), the European City of Science 2022.