Natural language based financial forecasting: a survey

Xing, F. Z. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5751-3937, Cambria, E. and Welsch, R. E. (2018) Natural language based financial forecasting: a survey. Artificial Intelligence Review, 50 (1). pp. 49-73. ISSN 1573-7462 doi: 10.1007/s10462-017-9588-9

Abstract/Summary

Natural language processing (NLP), or the pragmatic research perspective of computational linguistics, has become increasingly powerful due to data availability and various techniques developed in the past decade. This increasing capability makes it possible to capture sentiments more accurately and semantics in a more nuanced way. Naturally, many applications are starting to seek improvements by adopting cutting-edge NLP techniques. Financial forecasting is no exception. As a result, articles that leverage NLP techniques to predict financial markets are fast accumulating, gradually establishing the research field of natural language based financial forecasting (NLFF), or from the application perspective, stock market prediction. This review article clarifies the scope of NLFF research by ordering and structuring techniques and applications from related work. The survey also aims to increase the understanding of progress and hotspots in NLFF, and bring about discussions across many different disciplines.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/123579
Identification Number/DOI	10.1007/s10462-017-9588-9
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Henley Business School > Digitalisation, Marketing and Entrepreneurship
Publisher	Springer
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