Financial Risk Relation Identification through Dual-view Adaptation (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Identifying inter-firm risk relations is crucial for applications like portfolio management and investment strategy. |
| Approach: | They propose a method for extracting inter-firm risk relations using Form 10-K filings . their method captures implicit and abstract risk connections through unsupervised fine-tuning . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms baselines across multiple evaluation settings. |
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