Title
Bank distress in the news: Describing events through deep learning.
Abstract
While many models are purposed for detecting the occurrence of significant events in financial systems, the task of providing qualitative detail on the developments is not usually as well automated. We present a deep learning approach for detecting relevant discussion in text and extracting natural language descriptions of events. Supervised by only a small set of event information, comprising entity names and dates, the model is leveraged by unsupervised learning of semantic vector representations on extensive text data. We demonstrate applicability to the study of financial risk based on news (6.6M articles), particularly bank distress and government interventions (243 events), where indices can signal the level of bank-stress-related reporting at the entity level, or aggregated at national or European level, while being coupled with explanations. Thus, we exemplify how text, as timely, widely available and descriptive data, can serve as a useful complementary source of information for financial and systemic risk analytics.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.neucom.2016.12.110
Neurocomputing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Neural networks,Text mining,Event detection,Bank distress,Distributional semantics,Financial risk
Journal
264
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0925-2312
5
0.41
References 
Authors
16
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Samuel Rönnqvist1275.55
Peter Sarlin215618.44