Predicting sentence-level polarity labels of financial news using abnormal stock returns

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Highlights:

• We predict polarity labels of sentences in financial news based on stock returns.

• Multi-instance learning to transfer information from documents to sentences.

• Approach outperforms benchmark methods by 5.10% in terms of predictive accuracy.

• Method assists investors and helps companies communicating their messages as intended.

摘要

•We predict polarity labels of sentences in financial news based on stock returns.•Multi-instance learning to transfer information from documents to sentences.•Approach outperforms benchmark methods by 5.10% in terms of predictive accuracy.•Method assists investors and helps companies communicating their messages as intended.

论文关键词:Financial news,Expert systems,Natural language processing,Multi-instance learning,Decision-making

论文评审过程:Received 23 August 2019, Revised 17 November 2019, Accepted 18 January 2020, Available online 25 January 2020, Version of Record 5 February 2020.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113223