Effective Performance Measurement: Challenges and Opportunities in KPI Extraction from Earnings Calls (2026.acl-industry)
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Rasmus T. Aavang, Rasmus Tjalk-Bøggild, Alexandre Iolov, Giovanni Rizzi, Mike Zhang, Johannes Bjerva
| Challenge: | Earnings calls are a key source of financial information about public companies. extracting information from earnings calls is difficult. |
| Approach: | They propose to use LLMs to perform open-ended extraction from unstructured call transcripts to provide a baseline for this valuable domain through the consistent tracking of emergent KPIs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method provides a baseline for this valuable domain through the consistent tracking of emergent KPIs. |
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