Title
Detecting Document Structure in a Very Large Corpus of UK Financial Reports.
Abstract
In this paper we present the evaluation of our automatic methods for detecting and extracting document structure in annual financial reports. The work presented is part of the Corporate Financial Information Environment (CFIE) project in which we are using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to study the causes and consequences of corporate disclosure and financial reporting outcomes. We aim to uncover the determinants of financial reporting quality and the factors that influence the quality of information disclosed to investors beyond the financial statements. The CFIE consists of the supply of information by firms to investors, and the mediating influences of information intermediaries on the timing, relevance and reliability of information available to investors. It is important to compare and contrast specific elements or sections of each annual financial report across our entire corpus rather than working at the full document level. We show that the values of some metrics e.g. readability will vary across sections, thus improving on previous research research based on full texts.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2014
LREC 2014 - NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
document structure,annual reports,readability
Field
DocType
Citations 
Intermediary,Accounting management,Financial information,Computer science,Document Structure Description,Readability,Finance,Information quality
Conference
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
1
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mahmoud El-Haj1326.03
Paul Rayson253854.59
Steve Young320.42
Martin Walker421.09