Financial forecasting using character n-gram analysis and readability scores of annual reports

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5549 LNAI, Issue , 2009, Pages 39-51

  Butler, Matthew ^a   Kešelj, Vlado ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automatic financial forecasting; CNG; N grams; Readability scores; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL REPORTS; AUTOMATIC FINANCIAL FORECASTING; CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUE; CNG; COMBINED MODEL; FINANCIAL FORECASTING; N-GRAMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; READABILITY SCORES; TEXTUAL CONTENT;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FINANCE; FORECASTING; GEARS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 69849093736     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01818-3_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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