New breed of NLP model learns finance better, study finds

A new class of natural language processing (NLP) models trained to catch the drift of sentences, rather than the meaning of single words, may beat the models many investors are currently using to analyze text data.

Academics found in a recent study that a sentence-based NLP model outstripped standard models, including those trained specifically to understand financial terms.

The exercise is a first test, the researchers say, with more work to be done. But the findings suggest quants might wish