Title
Negation scope detection in sentiment analysis: Decision support for news-driven trading.
Abstract
Decision support for financial news using natural language processing requires robust methods that process all sentences correctly, including those that are negated. To predict the corresponding negation scope, related literature commonly utilizes rule-based algorithms and generative probabilistic models. In contrast, we propose the use of a tailored reinforcement learning method, since it can conquer learning task of arbitrary length. We then perform a thorough comparison with a two-pronged evaluation. First, we compare the predictive performance using a manually-labeled dataset. Here, reinforcement learning outperforms common approaches from the related literature, leading to a balanced classification accuracy of up to 70.17%. Second, we examine how detecting negation scopes can improve the accuracy of sentiment analysis for financial news, leading to an improvement of up to 10.63% in the correlation between news sentiment and stock market returns. This reveals negation scope detection as a crucial leverage in decision support from sentiment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.dss.2016.05.009
Decision Support Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Decision support,Machine learning,Sentiment analysis,Negation scope detection,Financial news
Journal
88
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0167-9236
1
0.35
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nicolas Prollochs1277.01
Stefan Feuerriegel221931.91
Dirk Neumann329437.29