Gábor Palkó

Gábor Palkó is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Digital Humanities at the Institute of Historical Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest. His research integrates computational methods with humanities scholarship, focusing on Hungarian literature, cultural heritage preservation, and natural language processing.

Research Focus: Primary interests include:

• Development of machine-annotated corpora for Hungarian poetry and folk songs
• Blockchain applications for trustworthy web archiving (e.g., WARChain project)
• Semantic text analysis and NLP tools for Hungarian
• Digital publishing and postmodern intertextuality
• Handwriting recognition and email legacy preservation

Publication Trends: Recent works (2022-2025) demonstrate strong emphasis on building multilingual poetry databases (PoeTree), pretraining Hungarian language models, medical terminology analysis during pandemics, and enhancing digital heritage infrastructure. His articles frequently intersect computational linguistics, archival science, and literary studies.

Lab Affiliation: Leads research at ELTE's Digital Humanities Lab (DH Lab), developing tools for cultural heritage digitization and text analysis.