Identifying Predictive Causal Factors from News Streams (D19-1)

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Challenge: Existing word embedding techniques are not suited to learn relationships between words in different documents and contexts.
Approach: They propose a new framework to uncover the relationship between news events and real world phenomena by measuring how word occurrence influences future occurrence.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms existing methods in stock price prediction errors for 12 months and 4 years.

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