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Detecting document structure in a very large corpus of UK financial reports

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Publication date2014
Host publicationLREC'14 Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
Place of PublicationReykjavik, Iceland
PublisherEuropean Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Pages1335-1338
Number of pages4
ISBN (print)9782951740884
<mark>Original language</mark>English

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NameProceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2014)
PublisherEuropean Language Resources Association (ELRA)

Abstract

In this paper we present the evaluation of our automatic methods for detecting and extracting document structure in annual financial reports. The work presented is part of the Corporate Financial Information Environment (CFIE) project in which we are using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to study the causes and consequences of corporate disclosure and financial reporting outcomes.
We aim to uncover the determinants of financial reporting quality and the factors that influence the quality of information disclosed
to investors beyond the financial statements. The CFIE consists of the supply of information by firms to investors, and the mediating
influences of information intermediaries on the timing, relevance and reliability of information available to investors. It is important to compare and contrast specific elements or sections of each annual financial report across our entire corpus rather than working at the full document level. We show that the values of some metrics e.g. readability will vary across sections, thus improving on previous research based on full texts.