MetaGraph: A Large-Scale Meta-Analysis of GenAI in Financial NLP (2022–2025)

Paolo Pedinotti, Peter Baumann, Nathan Jessurun, Leslie Barrett, Enrico Santus


Abstract
Financial NLP has evolved rapidly since late 2022, outpacing narrative surveys. We introduce MetaGraph, a methodology for extracting typed knowledge graphs from scientific corpora using ontology-guided LLM extraction to enable structured, large-scale trend analysis. Applied to 681 papers on GenAI in Finance (2022–2025), MetaGraph reveals three phases: early LLM-driven expansion of tasks and datasets, growing emphasis on limitations and risk, and a shift toward modular, system-oriented methods (e.g., retrieval-augmented designs). We release the resulting resource and artifacts to support reproducible meta-analysis and future monitoring of the field.
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2026.gem-main.71
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Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Generation, Evaluation and Metrics (GEM)
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July
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2026
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San Diego, California, USA
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Simon Mille, Sebastian Gehrmann, Patrícia Schmidtová, Ondřej Dušek, Marzieh Fadaee, Kyle Lo, Enrico Santus, Gabriel Stanovsky
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Paolo Pedinotti, Peter Baumann, Nathan Jessurun, Leslie Barrett, and Enrico Santus. 2026. MetaGraph: A Large-Scale Meta-Analysis of GenAI in Financial NLP (2022–2025). In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Generation, Evaluation and Metrics (GEM), pages 848–861, San Diego, California, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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MetaGraph: A Large-Scale Meta-Analysis of GenAI in Financial NLP (2022–2025) (Pedinotti et al., GEM 2026)
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