27 research outputs found
Bank Networks from Text: Interrelations, Centrality and Determinants
In the wake of the still ongoing global financial crisis, bank
interdependencies have come into focus in trying to assess linkages among banks
and systemic risk. To date, such analysis has largely been based on numerical
data. By contrast, this study attempts to gain further insight into bank
interconnections by tapping into financial discourse. We present a
text-to-network process, which has its basis in co-occurrences of bank names
and can be analyzed quantitatively and visualized. To quantify bank importance,
we propose an information centrality measure to rank and assess trends of bank
centrality in discussion. For qualitative assessment of bank networks, we put
forward a visual, interactive interface for better illustrating network
structures. We illustrate the text-based approach on European Large and Complex
Banking Groups (LCBGs) during the ongoing financial crisis by quantifying bank
interrelations and centrality from discussion in 3M news articles, spanning
2007Q1 to 2014Q3.Comment: Quantitative Finance, forthcoming in 201
A Recurrent Neural Model with Attention for the Recognition of Chinese Implicit Discourse Relations
We introduce an attention-based Bi-LSTM for Chinese implicit discourse
relations and demonstrate that modeling argument pairs as a joint sequence can
outperform word order-agnostic approaches. Our model benefits from a partial
sampling scheme and is conceptually simple, yet achieves state-of-the-art
performance on the Chinese Discourse Treebank. We also visualize its attention
activity to illustrate the model's ability to selectively focus on the relevant
parts of an input sequence.Comment: To appear at ACL2017, code available at
https://github.com/sronnqvist/discourse-ablst
From Text to Bank Interrelation Maps
In the wake of the ongoing global financial crisis, interdependencies among
banks have come into focus in trying to assess systemic risk. To date, such
analysis has largely been based on numerical data. By contrast, this study
attempts to gain further insight into bank interconnections by tapping into
financial discussion. Co-mentions of bank names are turned into a network,
which can be visualized and analyzed quantitatively, in order to illustrate
characteristics of individual banks and the network as a whole. The approach
allows for the study of temporal dynamics of the network, to highlight changing
patterns of discussion that reflect real-world events, the current financial
crisis in particular. For instance, it depicts how connections from distressed
banks to other banks and supervisory authorities have emerged and faded over
time, as well as how global shifts in network structure coincide with severe
crisis episodes. The usage of textual data holds an additional advantage in the
possibility of gaining a more qualitative understanding of an observed
interrelation, through its context. We illustrate our approach using a case
study on Finnish banks and financial institutions. The data set comprises 3.9M
posts from online, financial and business-related discussion, during the years
2004 to 2012. Future research includes analyzing European news articles with a
broader perspective, and a focus on improving semantic description of
relations
Detect & Describe: Deep Learning of Bank Stress in the News
News is a pertinent source of information on financial risks and stress
factors, which nevertheless is challenging to harness due to the sparse and
unstructured nature of natural text. We propose an approach based on
distributional semantics and deep learning with neural networks to model and
link text to a scarce set of bank distress events. Through unsupervised
training, we learn semantic vector representations of news articles as
predictors of distress events. The predictive model that we learn can signal
coinciding stress with an aggregated index at bank or European level, while
crucially allowing for automatic extraction of text descriptions of the events,
based on passages with high stress levels. The method offers insight that
models based on other types of data cannot provide, while offering a general
means for interpreting this type of semantic-predictive model. We model bank
distress with data on 243 events and 6.6M news articles for 101 large European
banks
A recurrent neural model with attention for the recognition of Chinese implicit discourse relations
We introduce an attention-based Bi-LSTM for Chinese implicit discourse relations and demonstrate that modeling argument pairs as a joint sequence can outperform word order-agnostic approaches. Our model benefits from a partial sampling scheme and is conceptually simple, yet achieves state-of-the-art performance on the Chinese Discourse Treebank. We also visualize its attention activity to illustrate the model’s ability to selectively focus on the relevant parts of an input sequence