Weak Supervision in Analysis of News: Application to Economic Policy Uncertainty

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.05383v2
• Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 16:47:39 GMT
• Title: Weak Supervision in Analysis of News: Application to Economic Policy Uncertainty
• Authors: Paul Trust, Ahmed Zahran, Rosane Minghim
• Abstract summary: Our work focuses on studying the potential of textual data, in particular news pieces, for measuring economic policy uncertainty (EPU) Economic policy uncertainty is defined as the public's inability to predict the outcomes of their decisions under new policies and future economic fundamentals. Our work proposes a machine learning based solution involving weak supervision to classify news articles with regards to economic policy uncertainty.
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• Abstract: The need for timely data analysis for economic decisions has prompted most economists and policy makers to search for non-traditional supplementary sources of data. In that context, text data is being explored to enrich traditional data sources because it is easy to collect and highly abundant. Our work focuses on studying the potential of textual data, in particular news pieces, for measuring economic policy uncertainty (EPU). Economic policy uncertainty is defined as the public's inability to predict the outcomes of their decisions under new policies and future economic fundamentals. Quantifying EPU is of great importance to policy makers, economists, and investors since it influences their expectations about the future economic fundamentals with an impact on their policy, investment and saving decisions. Most of the previous work using news articles for measuring EPU are either manual or based on a simple keyword search. Our work proposes a machine learning based solution involving weak supervision to classify news articles with regards to economic policy uncertainty. Weak supervision is shown to be an efficient machine learning paradigm for applying machine learning models in low resource settings with no or scarce training sets, leveraging domain knowledge and heuristics. We further generated a weak supervision based EPU index that we used to conduct extensive econometric analysis along with the Irish macroeconomic indicators to validate whether our generated index foreshadows weaker macroeconomic performance

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