@inproceedings{dereli-saraclar-2019-convolutional,
title = "Convolutional Neural Networks for Financial Text Regression",
author = "Dereli, Ne{\c{s}}at and
Saraclar, Murat",
editor = "Alva-Manchego, Fernando and
Choi, Eunsol and
Khashabi, Daniel",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop",
month = jul,
year = "2019",
address = "Florence, Italy",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/P19-2046",
doi = "10.18653/v1/P19-2046",
pages = "331--337",
abstract = "Forecasting financial volatility of a publicly-traded company from its annual reports has been previously defined as a text regression problem. Recent studies use a manually labeled lexicon to filter the annual reports by keeping sentiment words only. In order to remove the lexicon dependency without decreasing the performance, we replace bag-of-words model word features by word embedding vectors. Using word vectors increases the number of parameters. Considering the increase in number of parameters and excessive lengths of annual reports, a convolutional neural network model is proposed and transfer learning is applied. Experimental results show that the convolutional neural network model provides more accurate volatility predictions than lexicon based models.",
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%T Convolutional Neural Networks for Financial Text Regression
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Markdown (Informal)
[Convolutional Neural Networks for Financial Text Regression](https://aclanthology.org/P19-2046) (Dereli & Saraclar, ACL 2019)
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