[LFG] The Second Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2019)

Mon Mar 25 10:09:08 UTC 2019

Dear all,

The Second Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2019)

To be held at The 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics
(NoDaLiDa’19) in Turku, Finland.
Workshop URL: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fnp2019/
Shared Task URL: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/shared-task/

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:

Following the success of the First FNP 2018 at LREC’18, Japan, we have
had a great deal of positive feedback and interest in continuing the
development of the financial narrative processing field. This prompted
us to hold a training workshop in textual analysis methods for
financial narratives that was oversubscribed showing that there is an
increasing interest in the subject. As a result, we are now motivated
to organise the Second Financial Narrative Processing Workshop, FNP
2019.

The workshop will continue focusing on the use of Natural Language
Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), and Corpus Linguistics (CL)
methods related to all aspects of financial text mining and financial
narrative processing (FNP). There is a growing interest in the
application of automatic and computer-aided approaches for extracting,
summarising, and analysing both qualitative and quantitative financial
data. In recent years, previous manual small-scale research in the
Accounting and Finance literature has been scaled up with the aid of
NLP and ML methods, for example to examine approaches to retrieving
structured content from financial reports, and to study the causes and
consequences of corporate disclosure and financial reporting outcomes.
One focal point of the proposed workshop is to develop a better
understanding of the determinants of financial disclosure quality and
the factors that influence the quality of information disclosed to
investors beyond the quantitative data reported in the financial
statements. The workshop will also encourage efforts to build
resources and tools to help advance the work on financial narrative
processing (including content retrieval and classification) due to the
dearth of publicly available datasets and the high cost and limited
access of content providers. The workshop aims to advance research on
the lexical properties and narrative aspects of corporate disclosures,
including glossy (PDF) annual reports, US 10-K and 10-Q financial
documents, corporate press releases (including earning announcements),
conference calls, media articles, social media, etc.

For FNP 2019 we are collaborating with Fortia Financial Solutions, a
French based company specialised in Financial Investment and Risk
management on organising a shared task on automatic detection of
financial documents structure as part of FNP 2019.
http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/shared-task/
Systems participating in the shared task can be submitted as short
papers to be part of the workshop's proceedings.

MOTIVATION AND TOPICS OF INTEREST:

Financial narrative disclosures represent a large part of firms
overall financial communications with investors. Textual commentaries
help to clarify issues obscured by complex accounting methods and
footnote disclosures. In addition, narratives summarise corporate
strategy, contextualise results, explain governance arrangements,
describe corporate social responsibility policy, and provide
forward-looking information for investors. They also provide
management with an opportunity to obfuscate accounting results and
manipulate readers’ perceptions of underlying economic performance.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

- General Chair:  Dr Mahmoud El-Haj (SCC, Lancaster University, UK)
- Program Chairs: Dr Paul Rayson (SCC, Lancaster University, UK) and
Prof Steven Young (LUMS, Lancaster University, UK)
- Publication Chair: Dr Houda Bouamor (Fortia Financial Solution, France)
- Publicity Chairs: Dr Sira Ferradans (Fortia Financial Solution,
France), and Dr Cathrine Salzedo (LUMS, Lancaster University, UK)

IMPORTANT DATES:

March 25, 2019: First Call for Workshop Papers
June 5, 2019: Second Call for Workshop Papers
August 18, 2019 (Midnight PST): Workshop Paper Submissions Deadline
August 18, 2019: Notification of Acceptance
September 6, 2019 (Midnight GMT -12): Camera Ready Papers
September 18, 2019 Workshop Schedule
Monday September 30, 2019: Workshop Date (Half day).

CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to,
the following:

Applying core technologies on financial narratives: morphological
analysis, disambiguation, tokenization, POS tagging, named entity
recognition, chunking, parsing, semantic role labeling, sentiment
analysis, document quality and advanced readability metrics etc.
Financial narratives resources: dictionaries, annotated data, tools
and technologies etc.
Given the international nature of the conference, we particularly
welcome FNP papers reporting non- English and multilingual research,
describing the different regulatory regimes within which companies
operate internationally.
Submissions may include work in progress as well as finished work.
Submissions must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to
the financial narrative processing whether it is English or
multilingual. Descriptions of commercial systems are welcome but
authors should be willing to discuss the details of their work. Dual
submissions should be disclosed at time of submission.

PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

Submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and
unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and
analysis should be included.

Submissions may consist of no less than four (4) and up to eight (8)
pages of content, plus unlimited references.

Accepted papers authors are required to submit a camera ready to be
included in the final proceedings. Authors of accepted papers will be
notified after the notification of acceptance with further details.
Accepted papers will be published on ACL Anthology https://aclanthology.info.
The Proceedings will include both oral and poster papers, in the same format.

Authors of papers accepted for oral or poster presentation at FNP 2019
must notify the program chairs by the camera-ready deadline as to
whether the paper will be presented. We will not accept for
publication or presentation the papers that overlap significantly in
content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published
elsewhere.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Andrew Moore (SCC, Lancaster University, UK)
Antonio Moreno Sandoval (UAM, Spain)
Catherine Salzedo (LUMS, Lancaster University, UK)
Denys Proux (Naver Labs, Switzerland)
Djamé Seddah (INRIA-Paris, France)
Eshrag Refaee (Jazan University, Saudi Arabia)
George Giannakopoulos (SKEL Lab – NCSR Demokritos, Greece)
Haithem Afli (Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland)
Houda Bouamor (Fortia Financial Solutions, France)
Mahmoud El-Haj (SCC, Lancaster University, UK)
Marina Litvak (Sami Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel)
Martin Walker (University of Manchester, UK)
Paul Rayson (SCC, Lancaster University, UK)
Simonetta Montemagni (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale – ILC, Italy)
Sira Ferradans (Fortia Financial Solutions, France)
Steven Young (LUMS, Lancaster University, UK)

*Sira FERRADANS* Chief Research Scientist
17, avenue George V. Paris 75008
+33 (0)6 73 77 20 03
sira.ferradans at fortia.fr | www.fortia.fr
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