Text Analysis in the Research of Finance and Accounting: Review and Prospect

Liu Yunjing; Zhang Ziyi; Zhang Min

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Liu Yunjing, Zhang Ziyi, Zhang Min. 2021. Text Analysis in the Research of Finance and Accounting: Review and Prospect. Accounting and Economic Research, 35(1): 3-22.

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Liu Yunjing, Zhang Ziyi, Zhang Min. 2021. Text Analysis in the Research of Finance and Accounting: Review and Prospect. Accounting and Economic Research, 35(1): 3-22.

Liu Yunjing, Zhang Ziyi, Zhang Min. 2021. Text Analysis in the Research of Finance and Accounting: Review and Prospect. Accounting and Economic Research, 35(1): 3-22.

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Liu Yunjing, Zhang Ziyi, Zhang Min. 2021. Text Analysis in the Research of Finance and Accounting: Review and Prospect. Accounting and Economic Research, 35(1): 3-22.

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Text Analysis in the Research of Finance and Accounting: Review and Prospect

Business School, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China

Received Date: 2020-10-18
Publish Date: 2021-01-25

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With the increasing maturity of big data technology, text-based research is attracting the attention of academia, but it is still in its infancy. It is necessary to systematically sort out the techniques and documents of text analysis. This paper provides a detailed introduction to the technology and literature of existing text analysis in the research of finance and accounting from five dimensions, which include text information source, text analysis technology, text feature extraction, text analysis application and domestic text analysis research status, and then points out future research directions. This paper helps domestic scholars understand the characteristics and research progress of text analysis research in the field of finance and accounting, and attracts more scholars’ attention to text analysis research in the field of finance and accounting.
- text analysis,
- text information source,
- text analysis technology,
- text feature extraction,
- text analysis application

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