On the predictive ability of narrative disclosures in annual reports

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 202, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 789-801

  Balakrishnan, Ramji ^a   Qiu, Xin Ying ^b   Srinivasan, Padmini ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital markets; Economics; Finance; Text mining

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL REPORTS; CAPITAL MARKETS; MACHINE CODES; MARKET PERFORMANCE; MODEL PREDICTION; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE ABILITIES; TEST SETS; TEXT CLASSIFICATION; TEXT CLASSIFICATION MODELS; TEXT MINING; TRAINING SAMPLE;

COMMERCE; ECONOMICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 70350575762     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2009.06.023     Document Type: Article

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