The effects of news sentiment and coverage on credit rating analysis

PACIS 2010 - 14th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1963-1970

  Tsai, Feng Tse ^a   Lu, Hsin Min ^b   Hung, Mao Wei ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Credit rating; News coverage; Sentiment score; Text mining

Indexed keywords

CREDIT RATING ANALYSIS; CREDIT RATINGS; CREDIT RISKS; FINANCIAL MARKET; FINANCIAL NEWS; NEWS COVERAGE; SENTIMENT SCORE; TEXT ANALYSIS SYSTEM; TEXT MINING;

INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

RATING;

EID: 84855982986     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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