Algorithm reduces audit costs by identifying best service configurations from biased textual evidence.
problem Designing service systems from textual evidence requires accurate selection despite biased automated scoring.
method Developed PP-LUCB algorithm combining LLM scores and selective audits to minimize costs.
result Correctly identified the best model in 40/40 trials with 90% cost reduction.
The study detects deceptive language in business communication using AI.
problem Deceptive language in business communication.
method Combining classical rhetoric, communication psychology, and linguistic theory with computational textual analysis and transformer models.
result Detection accuracies of over 99% achieved in controlled settings.
We contribute the largest publicly available dataset of naturally occurring factual claims for the purpose of automatic claim verification. It is collected from 26 fact checking websites in English, paired with textual sources and rich metadata, and labelled for veracity by human expert journalists. We present an in-de…
Paper develops a model for verifying facts in tables without pre-retrieved evidence.
problem Verification of factual claims in structured data, especially in open-domain settings.
method Joint reranking-and-verification model that fuses evidence documents.
result Model achieves comparable performance to closed-domain state-of-the-art on TabFact dataset.
Analysts use vague language in reports to convey useful information about future payoffs.
problem Lack of precise numerical forecasts in analyst reports.
method Empirical analysis of analyst reports to assess the predictive power of linguistic tone.
result The textual tone of analyst reports has predictive power for forecast errors and subsequent revisions, especially when language is vague and uncertainty is high.
Study improves keyword forecasting in earnings-call prediction markets.
problem Accurately predicting future keyword mentions in earnings calls.
method Experiments on earnings-call mention markets, varying context and market probability, introducing MCP.
result Mixture of market probability and MCP yields the best forecasts.
The paper predicts financial markets using news text and semantic network analysis.
problem Predicting financial markets with news data.
method Semantic network analysis of news text to assess economic keywords' importance.
result The index captures financial market phases and predicts returns and volatilities.
Drug-drug interaction (DDI) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and a subject of intense scientific interest. Biomedical literature mining can aid DDI research by extracting evidence for large numbers of potential interactions from published literature and clinical databases. Though DDI is investigated in domai…
System segments Form 10-K documents into Item sections for financial analysis.
problem Segmenting Form 10-K documents into Item sections for efficient financial analysis.
method Developed an automatic Form 10-K Itemization system using NLP techniques.
result System achieves a retrieval rate of 93% for segmenting Item sections.
R package sentometrics analyzes text sentiment for predictions.
problem Unlocking value from textual data using sentiment analysis.
method Optimized textual sentiment indexation with R package sentometrics.
result Forecasted CBOE Volatility Index using text sentiment data.
We introduce a multimodal visual-textual search refinement method for fashion garments. Existing search engines do not enable intuitive, interactive, refinement of retrieved results based on the properties of a particular product. We propose a method to retrieve similar items, based on a query item image and textual re…
The paper proposes a new recommender system combining ratings and textual reviews.
problem Lack of using textual reviews in recommender systems.
method Combines Latent Factor Model with Latent Dirichlet Allocation for textual reviews.
result Combining textual reviews with ratings improves recommendation quality.
Based on the assumption that economic complexity is characterised by the interactions of economic agents (who) constantly change their actions and strategies in response to the outcome they mutually create, this paper presents how network models can be used a proxies for the mapping, quantification and analysis of Roma…
In recent years, the interest in Big Data sources has been steadily growing within the Official Statistic community. The Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat) is currently carrying out several Big Data pilot studies. One of these studies, the ICT Big Data pilot, aims at exploiting massive amounts of textual …
Benchmark assesses forecasting models' ability to use textual context.
problem Forecasting models struggle with integrating textual context.
method Introduces a benchmark with numerical and textual data, evaluates various models.
result LLM prompting method outperforms other models.
Examines parallels between human subjects and texts for causal inference.
problem Ambiguity and fallacies in causal inference using textual data.
method Two strategies: shifting from traits to perceptions and from concepts to parts.
result Highlights the importance of clarifying fundamental concepts.
Proposes Textual Echo Cancellation to improve speech recognition.
problem Improving speech recognition performance and user experience for smart devices.
method A novel sequence-to-sequence model with multi-source attention that processes both the microphone mixture signal and source text of TTS playback.
result Demonstrates enhanced speech recognition performance and reduced latency.
Interpretable text-response modelling for structured outcomes
problem Predicting structured responses alongside textual data
method Joint non-negative matrix factorisation and binomial regression
result Recovering stable response-relevant textual signals
Textual network embedding aims to learn low-dimensional representations of text-annotated nodes in a graph. Prior work in this area has typically focused on fixed graph structures; however, real-world networks are often dynamic. We address this challenge with a novel end-to-end node-embedding model, called Dynamic Embe…
Taxicab correspondence analysis visualizes sparse text data sets.
problem Visualization of extremely sparse contingency tables.
method Robust variant of correspondence analysis for sparse data.
result Visualized an 8265-dimensional textual data set.
A new framework predicts stock movements using news sentiment and relational data.
problem Predicting stock prices from textual information is challenging due to market uncertainty and natural language complexity.
method Multi-Graph Recurrent Network (MGRN) combining textual sentiment from financial news and relational data.
result The model outperforms benchmarks in predicting stock movements.
New model uses financial filings to predict bankruptcy, even without MDA sections.
problem Lack of complete MDA data limits traditional bankruptcy prediction models.
method Conditional Multimodal Discriminative (CMMD) model learns from accounting, market, and textual data.
result Empirical results show superior classification performance compared to traditional models.
Since datasets with annotation for novelty at the document and/or word level are not easily available, we present a simulation framework that allows us to create different textual datasets in which we control the way novelty occurs. We also present a benchmark of existing methods for novelty detection in textual data s…
Surveying machine learning methods for economic forecasting.
problem Improving accuracy of economic forecasts using machine learning.
method Nowcasting, textual data, panel and tensor data, high-dimensional Granger causality tests, time series cross-validation, classification with economic losses.
result Recent advances in machine learning methods enhance economic forecasting accuracy.
Paper explores different models for fake news detection.
problem Detecting fake news with various models.
method Used machine learning algorithms and pretrained features like TFIDF, CV, and W2V.
result Developed models for better fake news detection.
Paper introduces a benchmark for predicting bankruptcy from text data.
problem Lack of a common benchmark dataset and evaluation strategy for unstructured data in bankruptcy prediction.
method Describes and evaluates several baseline models, including a bag-of-words model.
result A lightweight bag-of-words model performs surprisingly well, especially when considering data from multiple years.
MoleculeSTM learns from molecule structures and texts for better drug design.
problem Lack of integration between chemical structures and textual knowledge in AI drug discovery.
method Jointly learns chemical structures and texts via contrastive learning, using a large dataset.
result MoleculeSTM achieves state-of-the-art performance in zero-shot tasks like structure-text retrieval and molecule editing.
A vast amount of textual web streams is influenced by events or phenomena emerging in the real world. The social web forms an excellent modern paradigm, where unstructured user generated content is published on a regular basis and in most occasions is freely distributed. The present Ph.D. Thesis deals with the problem …
SAFE detects fake news by analyzing text and image similarities.
problem Detecting fake news with less focus on text-image similarity.
method SAFE uses neural networks to extract text and visual features, then learns their relationship to predict fake news.
result SAFE effectively recognizes fake news based on text, images, or mismatches.
An integrated approach is proposed across visual and textual data to both determine and justify a medical diagnosis by a neural network. As deep learning techniques improve, interest grows to apply them in medical applications. To enable a transition to workflows in a medical context that are aided by machine learning,…
Textual network embedding leverages rich text information associated with the network to learn low-dimensional vectorial representations of vertices. Rather than using typical natural language processing (NLP) approaches, recent research exploits the relationship of texts on the same edge to graphically embed text. How…
This study improves stock price prediction using multimodal data.
problem Improving financial asset price forecasting accuracy.
method Combining candlestick time series and textual news flow data using LSTM and pre-trained models.
result Textual modality reduces MAPE by 55%.
Enhances GNNs with text features for better fake news detection.
problem Detecting disinformation on social media using GNNs.
method Integrates Transformer-based textual features into GNNs.
result Contextual text representations improve GNN performance by 33.8% in Macro F1.
The performance of many network learning applications crucially hinges on the success of network embedding algorithms, which aim to encode rich network information into low-dimensional vertex-based vector representations. This paper considers a novel variational formulation of network embeddings, with special focus on …
An important, yet largely unstudied, problem in student data analysis is to detect misconceptions from students' responses to open-response questions. Misconception detection enables instructors to deliver more targeted feedback on the misconceptions exhibited by many students in their class, thus improving the quality…
This study uses NLP to predict stock performance based on analyst reports.
problem Predicting stock performance using textual information from analyst reports.
method Natural language processing (NLP) and a customized BERT deep learning model for Chinese text.
result Strong positive sentiment in analyst reports increases excess return and intraday volatility, while strong negative sentiment increases volatility and trading volume but decreases excess return.
Self-supervised bidirectional transformer models such as BERT have led to dramatic improvements in a wide variety of textual classification tasks. The modern digital world is increasingly multimodal, however, and textual information is often accompanied by other modalities such as images. We introduce a supervised mult…
Paper proposes a method to improve graph clustering by integrating node textual metadata with node signals in GGMs.
problem Graph learning in Gaussian Graphical Models with auxiliary node metadata.
method Laplacian-constrained Gaussian Graphical Models with majorization-minimization algorithm.
result The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches that use either signals or metadata alone.
Survey on LLMs for time series analytics across various domains.
problem Cross-modality gap between LLMs and time series data.
method Taxonomy of approaches, cross-modality strategies, and experiments on multimodal datasets.
result Effective combinations of textual data and cross-modality strategies enhance time series analytics.
MSIN model discovers relevant financial news for time series data.
problem Discovering relevant textual stories associated with numerical time series data.
method Joint learning of time series and text data using MSIN model.
result MSIN achieves up to 84.9% and 87.2% in recalling ground truth articles for two stock time series.
New method predicts drug interactions from drug images.
problem Predicting drug interactions from molecular structures.
method Siamese neural network using drug structure images.
result First work predicting DDIs from drug images.
Paper presents ECL dataset for multi-modal bankruptcy prediction.
problem Developing models to predict corporate bankruptcy using textual and numerical data.
method Used ECL dataset to develop and evaluate classical and neural models.
result Textual and numerical data modalities complement each other for bankruptcy prediction.
Paper presents a technique using Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient for KE in TDs.
problem Extracting common characteristics and grouping similar TDs.
method Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient (SRCC) for KE.
result SRCC proves a comprehensive measure for high-quality KE.
InfoSEM infers gene regulatory networks without GT labels, improving performance.
problem Inferring GRNs from gene expression data with high accuracy and avoiding biases.
method InfoSEM uses deep generative models with informative priors (textual gene embeddings).
result InfoSEM outperforms existing models by 38.5% across four datasets.
A large body of research into semantic textual similarity has focused on constructing state-of-the-art embeddings using sophisticated modelling, careful choice of learning signals and many clever tricks. By contrast, little attention has been devoted to similarity measures between these embeddings, with cosine similari…
Mathematical reasoning---a core ability within human intelligence---presents some unique challenges as a domain: we do not come to understand and solve mathematical problems primarily on the back of experience and evidence, but on the basis of inferring, learning, and exploiting laws, axioms, and symbol manipulation ru…
Study uses LLMs to optimize VC exit timing after IPO.
problem Optimal exit timing after IPO is crucial but not well studied.
method Uses LLMs to analyze financial data and market signals.
result LLMs can improve VC exit timing and generate better returns.
Human labeling of data can be very time-consuming and expensive, yet, in many cases it is critical for the success of the learning process. In order to minimize human labeling efforts, we propose a novel active learning solution that does not rely on existing sources of unlabeled data. It uses a small amount of labeled…