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48 results for Sentiment measures

Investor sentiment improves model accuracy but complexity doesn't always boost predictive power.

problem Determining the optimal complexity of investor sentiment measures in asset pricing models.
method Comprehensive review of 71 papers from 2000-2021, analyzing various sentiment measures and models.
result Higher complexity of sentiment measures does not necessarily improve predictive power.

Study finds investor sentiment has a significant positive relationship with stock returns in Moroccan and Tunisian markets.

problem Investor sentiment and stock returns relationship in Moroccan and Tunisian markets.
method Used indirect measures of investor sentiment (SENT and ARMS) and Granger causality tests.
result Sentiment has a significant positive relationship with stock returns, but not the other way around.

We study the relationship between the sentiment levels of Twitter users and the evolving network structure that the users created by @-mentioning each other. We use a large dataset of tweets to which we apply three sentiment scoring algorithms, including the open source SentiStrength program. Specifically we make three…

2016-04-11abs ↗pdf ↗

To understand the relationship between news sentiment and company stock price movements, and to better understand connectivity among companies, we define an algorithm for measuring sentiment-based network risk. The algorithm ranks companies in networks of co-occurrences, and measures sentiment-based risk, by calculatin…

2017-06-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved crude oil price forecasting using multi-dimensional LLM sentiment signals.

problem Challenges in predicting crude oil prices due to unstructured news.
method Extracted five sentiment dimensions from GPT-4o, Llama 3.2-3b, and FinBERT models on energy-sector news articles.
result Combining GPT-4o and FinBERT yields the best predictive performance for weekly WTI crude oil futures returns.

Study investor sentiment and disagreement on StockTwits during COVID-19.

problem Understanding investor beliefs and sentiment during the pandemic.
method Analysis of social media data (StockTwits) for investor messages.
result Sentiment and disagreement sharply decreased in early March 2020, followed by a reversal.

Social media is increasingly used by humans to express their feelings and opinions in the form of short text messages. Detecting sentiments in the text has a wide range of applications including identifying anxiety or depression of individuals and measuring well-being or mood of a community. Sentiments can be expressed…

2018-07-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Dual-CLVSA predicts financial markets using both trading data and sentiment measurements.

problem Predicting financial markets with complex interactions and emotional influences.
method Hybrid convolutional LSTM-based variational sequence-to-sequence model with attention.
result Dual-CLVSA effectively fuses trading data and sentiment measurements, improving prediction performance.

Study evaluates if LLMs have company-specific biases in financial sentiment analysis.

problem Evaluating if large language models exhibit company-specific biases in financial sentiment analysis.
method Comparing sentiment scores with and without company names, constructing economic models, and empirical analysis.
result LLMs show company-specific biases in sentiment analysis, impacting investor behavior and stock prices.

The estimation of class prevalence, i.e., the fraction of a population that belongs to a certain class, is a very useful tool in data analytics and learning, and finds applications in many domains such as sentiment analysis, epidemiology, etc. For example, in sentiment analysis, the objective is often not to estimate w…

2016-05-13abs ↗pdf ↗

With the rapid growth in the number of scientific publications, year after year, it is becoming increasingly difficult to identify quality authoritative work on a single topic. Though there is an availability of scientometric measures which promise to offer a solution to this problem, these measures are mostly quantita…

2019-10-07abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper analyzes how news sentiment of companies can affect market movements.

problem Understanding how news sentiment impacts market performance and volatility.
method Applied NLP techniques to analyze news sentiment of 87 companies over 7 years.
result Strong media sentiment towards one company can indicate significant changes in sentiment towards related companies.

GIFsentiment predicts stock market returns and investor sentiment from social media GIFs.

problem Understanding investor sentiment in the stock market.
method Constructing a sentiment index from social media GIFs and analyzing its correlation with market returns and volume.
result GIFsentiment positively predicts stock market returns and negatively predicts returns for up to four weeks.

Study proposes a machine learning method to predict stock price crashes based on investor sentiment.

problem Predicting stock price crashes due to investor sentiment.
method Minimum covariance determinant methodology and cross-sectional regression analysis.
result The proposed method effectively captures stock price crash risk and is robust across different firm sizes.

Study compares sentiment spillover networks from news and social media in tech companies.

problem Understanding how sentiment information flows between companies through news and social media.
method Network-based transfer entropy method to measure and compare sentiment spillover.
result News shows stronger information flow among tech companies after COVID-19.

As machine learning ascends the peak of computer science zeitgeist, the usage and experimentation with sentiment analysis using various forms of textual data seems pervasive. The effect is especially pronounced in formulating securities trading strategies, due to a plethora of reasons including the relative ease of imp…

2017-12-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Study uses TV news to measure climate risks affecting clean energy firms.

problem Understanding how climate risks impact clean energy firms' financial stability.
method Developed climate risk measures from TV news coverage and analyzed their effects on clean energy firms' risks.
result Increased TV news coverage of climate risks correlates with higher systematic risk and lower idiosyncratic risk for clean energy firms.

This paper optimizes portfolios using TDA and financial news sentiment.

problem Effective portfolio diversification through understanding asset similarity.
method Integrates TDA with FinBERT sentiment scores for dynamic rebalancing.
result Outperforms traditional methods in returns and risk-adjusted performance.

Study uses machine learning to analyze Twitter sentiments about COVID-19.

problem Examining public concerns and sentiments about COVID-19 from Twitter.
method Machine learning (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) to identify topics and sentiments.
result Identified 13 topics and categorized into five themes, revealing dominant fears and mixed feelings.

The study distills news sources to analyze stock reactions, finding sentiment has asymmetric and sector-specific effects.

problem Analyzing the influence of financial text sources on stock reactions.
method Mixed text sources from professional platforms, blogs, and message boards were distilled using different lexica to analyze sentiment variables.
result Sentiment has an asymmetric and sector-specific effect on stock reactions.

News sentiment in U.S. economic newspapers has become more persistent over 45 years.

problem Understanding the temporal dynamics of U.S. economic news sentiment over time.
method Daily economic news sentiment index from 1980-2025, analyzed using sentiment indexes.
result News sentiment states have become more persistent, with longer residence times in optimistic or pessimistic regimes.

Well-defined formal definitions for sentiment and opinion are extended to incorporate the necessary elements to provide a formal quantitative definition of reputation. This definition takes the form of a time-based index, in which each element is a function of a collection of opinions mined during a given time period. …

2017-05-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Transformer model predicts stock trends using technical data and sentiment analysis.

problem Lack of accurate long-term stock trend prediction using traditional models.
method Developed a Transformer-based model integrating technical stock data and sentiment analysis.
result Transformer model shows significant improvement in directional accuracy over RNNs, especially for longer sequence lengths.

Study uses Granger causality to show investor sentiment influences stock prices.

problem Understanding the relationship between investor sentiment and stock market movements.
method Applied Granger causality to analyze the relationship between close price index and sentiment score.
result Sentiment analysis shows a positive correlation with stock price movements.

Can textual data be compressed intelligently without losing accuracy in evaluating sentiment? In this study, we propose a novel evolutionary compression algorithm, PARSEC (PARts-of-Speech for sEntiment Compression), which makes use of Parts-of-Speech tags to compress text in a way that sacrifices minimal classification…

2017-09-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Behavioral finance has become an increasingly important subfield of finance. However the main parts of behavioral finance, prospect theory included, understand financial markets through individual investment behavior. Behavioral finance thereby ignores any interaction between participants. We introduce a socio-financia…

2014-10-09abs ↗pdf ↗

The ability to identify sentiment in text, referred to as sentiment analysis, is one which is natural to adult humans. This task is, however, not one which a computer can perform by default. Identifying sentiments in an automated, algorithmic manner will be a useful capability for business and research in their search …

2018-04-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Enhanced portfolio selection using sentiment data and LSTM.

problem Improving portfolio selection through sentiment analysis and price prediction.
method Semantic Attention Model for sentiment prediction, LSTM for price prediction, mean-variance strategy for portfolio optimization.
result Sentiment-aware portfolio strategies outperform non-sentiment aware models on average.

Anonymizing company names in financial news improves trading performance, contrary to initial expectations.

problem Look-ahead and distraction biases in sentiment analysis of financial news.
method Investigated trading strategies based on original and anonymized headlines, comparing performance.
result Anonymized headlines outperform original in-sample, suggesting distraction effect is stronger.

Sentiment analysis of DAX40 stocks improves performance by 5.38% annually.

problem Creating a more responsive stock market index using sentiment analysis.
method Extract sentiment from news articles, adjust index weights based on sentiment, compare performance to existing indices.
result Sentiment index outperforms DAX40 by 7.51% annually, adjusted for costs.

\emph{Sentiment Quantification} (i.e., the task of estimating the relative frequency of sentiment-related classes -- such as \textsf{Positive} and \textsf{Negative} -- in a set of unlabelled documents) is an important topic in sentiment analysis, as the study of sentiment-related quantities and trends across a populati…

2019-04-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Study uses sentiment analysis to predict implied volatility surface, improving prediction accuracy.

problem Improving prediction accuracy of implied volatility surface.
method Constructed daily high-frequency sentiment data, used VAR method, deep learning (BERT, LSTM), FFT, EMD for sentiment decomposition.
result High-frequency sentiment correlates with ATM options' implied volatility, low-frequency with DOTM options.

Automated sentiment classification (SC) on short text fragments has received increasing attention in recent years. Performing SC on unseen domains with few or no labeled samples can significantly affect the classification performance due to different expression of sentiment in source and target domain. In this study, w…

2018-08-28abs ↗pdf ↗

MANA-Net improves market predictions by dynamically weighting news sentiments.

problem Aggregated Sentiment Homogenization in financial news data.
method Dynamic market-news attention mechanism to aggregate sentiments.
result MANA-Net outperforms recent market prediction methods by 1.1% Profit & Loss and 0.252 daily Sharpe ratio.