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 Holly Yang’s PhD course in Spring 2020 at Singapore Management University. The presentation covered:

1. What is text analytics and NLP
2. How text analytics has evolved in the accounting literature since the 1980s
3. What current (as of 2020) methods are used in the literature.
4. 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.