FinSentiA: Sentiment Analysis in English Financial Microblogs

Thomas Gaillat, Annanda Sousa, Manel Zarrouk, Brian Davis


Abstract
FinSentiA: Sentiment Analysis in English Financial Microblogs The objective of this paper is to report on the building of a Sentiment Analysis (SA) system dedicated to financial microblogs in English. The purpose of our work is to build a financial classifier that predicts the sentiment of stock investors in microblog platforms such as StockTwits and Twitter. Our contribution shows that it is possible to conduct such tasks in order to provide fine grained SA of financial microblogs. We extracted financial entities with relevant contexts and assigned scores on a continuous scale by adopting a deep learning method for the classification.
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2018.jeptalnrecital-court.9
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Actes de la Conférence TALN. Volume 1 - Articles longs, articles courts de TALN
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5
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2018
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Rennes, France
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JEP/TALN/RECITAL
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ATALA
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271–280
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https://aclanthology.org/2018.jeptalnrecital-court.9
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Thomas Gaillat, Annanda Sousa, Manel Zarrouk, and Brian Davis. 2018. FinSentiA: Sentiment Analysis in English Financial Microblogs. In Actes de la Conférence TALN. Volume 1 - Articles longs, articles courts de TALN, pages 271–280, Rennes, France. ATALA.
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