Disentangled Variational Topic Inference for Topic-Accurate Financial Report Generation

Sixing Yan


Abstract
Automatic generating financial report from a set of news is important but challenging. The financial reports is composed of key points of the news and corresponding inferring and reasoning from specialists in financial domain with professional knowledge. The challenges lie in the effective learning of the extra knowledge that is not well presented in the news, and the misalignment between topic of input news and output knowledge in target reports. In this work, we introduce a disentangled variational topic inference approach to learn two latent variables for news and report, respectively. We use a publicly available dataset to evaluate the proposed approach. The results demonstrate its effectiveness of enhancing the language informativeness and the topic accuracy of the generated financial reports.
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2022.finnlp-1.3
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Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP)
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December
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2022
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)
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Chung-Chi Chen, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hiroya Takamura, Hsin-Hsi Chen
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FinNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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18–24
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.finnlp-1.3
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10.18653/v1/2022.finnlp-1.3
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Sixing Yan. 2022. Disentangled Variational Topic Inference for Topic-Accurate Financial Report Generation. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP), pages 18–24, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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