TweetFinSent: A Dataset of Stock Sentiments on Twitter

Yulong Pei, Amarachi Mbakwe, Akshat Gupta, Salwa Alamir, Hanxuan Lin, Xiaomo Liu, Sameena Shah


Abstract
Stock sentiment has strong correlations with the stock market but traditional sentiment analysis task classifies sentiment according to having feelings and emotions of good or bad. This definition of sentiment is not an accurate indicator of public opinion about specific stocks. To bridge this gap, we introduce a new task of stock sentiment analysis and present a new dataset for this task named TweetFinSent. In TweetFinSent, tweets are annotated based on if one gained or expected to gain positive or negative return from a stock. Experiments on TweetFinSent with several sentiment analysis models from lexicon-based to transformer-based have been conducted. Experimental results show that TweetFinSent dataset constitutes a challenging problem and there is ample room for improvement on the stock sentiment analysis task. TweetFinSent is available at https://github.com/jpmcair/tweetfinsent.
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2022.finnlp-1.5
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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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37–47
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.finnlp-1.5
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.finnlp-1.5
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Yulong Pei, Amarachi Mbakwe, Akshat Gupta, Salwa Alamir, Hanxuan Lin, Xiaomo Liu, and Sameena Shah. 2022. TweetFinSent: A Dataset of Stock Sentiments on Twitter. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP), pages 37–47, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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TweetFinSent: A Dataset of Stock Sentiments on Twitter (Pei et al., FinNLP 2022)
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