Fin-Env-Narrative

This repository contains python code that was used for the experiments in the paper "Felix Armbrust, Henry Schäfer, and Roman Klinger (2020). A computational analysis of financial and environmental narratives within financial reports and its value for investors. In Proceedings of the 1st Joint Workshop on Financial Narrative Processing and MultiLing Financial Summarisation (FNP-FNS 2020), Workshop at the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. 2020"

Note: This repository does not contain the underlying label data and documents. The pre-processed reports can be downloaded from SRAF. The unprocessed files can be downloaded via the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The labels (financial and environmental data) can be taken from Bloomberg. Alternatively, the environmental data can also be taken directly from Sustainalytics.

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Requirements

Installation of required packages

1. Install Anaconda
2. Create a virtual environment and install TensorFlow and PyTorch.
3. Install transformers
4. Install pandas, numpy, nltk, and scikit-learn

This repository was tested on the following versions: numpy 1.17.0, pandas 1.0.3, tensorflow 2.0.0, keras 2.3.1, nltk 3.4.5, pytorch 1.0.1, and scikit-learn 0.21.2. Please refer to the according installation pages for the specific install command.

Citation

@inproceedings{armbrust-etal-2020-computational,
    title = "A Computational Analysis of Financial and Environmental Narratives within Financial Reports and its Value for Investors",
    author = {Armbrust, Felix  and
      Sch{\"a}fer, Henry  and
      Klinger, Roman},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st Joint Workshop on Financial Narrative Processing and MultiLing Financial Summarisation",
    month = dec,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Barcelona, Spain (Online)",
    publisher = "COLING",
    url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.fnp-1.31",
    pages = "181--194"}