Sentimentanalysisofnewsarticlesforfinancialsignal.pptVIP

Sentiment analysis of news articles for financial signal prediction Anand Atreya Nicholas Cohen Jinjiang James Zhai Motivation Financial markets can be swayed by sentiment Bearish sentiment can make a down market worse and lessen the impact of positive news Vice versa for bullish sentiment Firms which take advantage of sentiment information quickly can gain an edge Computers analyzing sentiment can work far faster (and for less money) than human analysts Our hypothesis: sentiment can be discovered in news articles about finance Methods Data sets: New York Times articles about finance (from the