Efficient Statement Identification for Automatic Market Forecasting

authored by

Henning Wachsmuth, Peter Prettenhofer, Benno Stein

Abstract

Strategic business decision making involves the analysis of market forecasts. Today, the identification and aggregation of relevant market statements is done by human experts, often by analyzing documents from the World Wide Web. We present an efficient information extraction chain to automate this complex natural language processing task and show results for the identification part. Based on time and money extraction, we identify sentences that represent statements on revenue using support vector classification. We provide a corpus with German online news articles, in which more than 2,000 such sentences are annotated by domain experts from the industry. On the test data, our statement identification algorithm achieves an overall precision and recall of 0.86 and 0.87 respectively.

External Organisation(s)

Paderborn University
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Type

Conference contribution

Pages

1128-1136

No. of pages

9

Publication date

2010

Publication status

Published

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Language and Linguistics, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Linguistics and Language

Electronic version(s)

https://aclanthology.org/C10-1127 (Access: Open)