Text analytics, NLP, and accounting research, 2020
Background: A wordcloud of all words in US SEC 10-K filings in 2012.
These slides were used in a presentation in Hai Lu’s PhD course in Spring 2020 at Peiking University. The presentation covered:
- What is text analytics and NLP
- How text analytics has evolved in the accounting literature since the 1980s
- What current (as of 2020) methods are used in the literature.
- What methods are on the horizon.
Slides are available in an interactive web-based format (reveal.js) and as a pdf.
This is an update of a talk from 2019.
