Social media, news media and the stock market

News Media and the Stock Market: Assessing Mutual Relationships. An Interdisciplinary Multi-Method Study of Financial Journalism, News Media, Emotions, Market Events and the Stock Market

Predicting Market Movements: From Breaking News to Emerging Social Media

In this talk I will present several studies conducted at the AI Lab of the University of Arizona that aim to understand and predict market movements using text mining, breaking news, and social media. In “User-Generated Content on Social Media: Predicting New Product Market Success from Online Word-of-Mouth,” we explore the predictive validity of various text and sentiment measures of online WO...

Tracking Multiple Social Media for Stock Market Event Prediction

The problem of modeling the continuously changing trends in finance markets and generating real-time, meaningful predictions about significant changes in those markets has drawn considerable interest from economists and data scientists alike. In addition to traditional market indicators, growth of varied social media has enabled economists to leverage microand real-time indicators about factors...

Semantic Enhanced Social Media Sentiments for Stock Market Prediction

Traditional document representation for classification follows Bag of Words (BoW) approach to represent the term weights. The conventional method uses the Vector Space Model (VSM) to exploit the statistical information of terms in the documents and they fail to address the semantic information as well as order of the terms present in the documents. Although, the phrase based approach follows th...

Social Media News: Motivation, Purpose and Usage

This paper presents the results of an online survey which was conducted to analyse the use of social web in the context of daily news. Users’ motivation and habit in the news consumption were focused. Moreover, users’ news behaviour was distinguished in three purposes such news consumption, news production and news dissemination to find out if the usage has a passive or active character. In a s...