Learning to Compare Financial Reports for Financial Forecasting (2024.findings-eacl)
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| Challenge: | Public companies in the US are required to publish annual reports that contain over 25,000 words across all sections and a high percentage of boilerplate content that does not change much year-to-year. |
| Approach: | They propose to model complex, cross-document relationships between financial reports using paired financial reports. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can predict company risk and correlation from financial reports . the proposed model is able to recognize complex, nuanced relationships with complex signals . |
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