Using financial news articles with minimal linguistic resources to forecast stock behaviour. (2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Linardos, Euangelos; Kermanidis, Katia L.; Maragoudakis, Manolis
• Is Part Of: International journal of data mining, modelling and management. Volume 7:Number 3(2015)
• Page Start: 185
• Page End: 212
• Publication Date: 2015
• Subjects: data mining -- knowledge-poor text mining -- financial text modelling -- financial news -- stocks -- simulation -- evaluation -- stock forecasting -- stock market prediction -- fundamental analysis -- technical analysis -- portfolio management -- stock behaviour -- news releases -- technical indicators -- stock prices -- stock price trends -- Greek news articles -- English news articles; Data mining -- Periodicals; Information science -- Periodicals; Databases -- Periodicals; 005.7
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1759-1163

Abstract

Stock prediction has always constituted a great challenge due to its complex and volatile nature. Most existing methods neglect the significant impact that mass media broadcasts have on the behaviour of investors. In this paper an innovative system is presented, combining information from news releases and technical indicators, in order to enhance the predictability of the daily stock price trends, and experimental results confirm the aforementioned impact. The news articles are in Modern Greek, a resource-poor language, presenting the challenge to utilise minimal linguistic resources. The impact of the number of related broadcast articles on stock prediction is estimated, and experimentation shows that too few articles may be harmful instead of helpful for capturing the investors' behaviour. A comparative evaluation against a similar prediction system, which makes on English newswire articles related to US stocks and utilises roughly equivalent text processing techniques, leads to interesting findings between the two languages.