Financial Risk Relation Identification through Dual-view Adaptation
Wei-Ning Chiu, Yu-Hsiang Wang, Andy Hsiao, Yu-Shiang Huang, Chuan-Ju Wang
Abstract
A multitude of interconnected risk events—ranging from regulatory changes to geopolitical tensions—can trigger ripple effects across firms. Identifying inter-firm risk relations is thus crucial for applications like portfolio management and investment strategy. Traditionally, such assessments rely on expert judgment and manual analysis, which are, however, subjective, labor-intensive, and difficult to scale. To address this, we propose a systematic method for extracting inter-firm risk relations using Form 10-K filings—authoritative, standardized financial documents—as our data source. Leveraging recent advances in natural language processing, our approach captures implicit and abstract risk connections through unsupervised fine-tuning based on chronological and lexical patterns in the filings. This enables the development of a domain-specific financial encoder with a deeper contextual understanding and introduces a quantitative risk relation score for transparency, interpretable analysis. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method outperforms strong baselines across multiple evaluation settings.- Anthology ID:
- 2025.emnlp-main.1336
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2025
- Address:
- Suzhou, China
- Editors:
- Christos Christodoulopoulos, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Carolyn Rose, Violet Peng
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 26301–26311
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-luhme/2025.emnlp-main.1336/
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.1336
- Cite (ACL):
- Wei-Ning Chiu, Yu-Hsiang Wang, Andy Hsiao, Yu-Shiang Huang, and Chuan-Ju Wang. 2025. Financial Risk Relation Identification through Dual-view Adaptation. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 26301–26311, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Financial Risk Relation Identification through Dual-view Adaptation (Chiu et al., EMNLP 2025)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-luhme/2025.emnlp-main.1336.pdf