Refine viewpoints into opportunities through NLP
In everyday life, we often rely on numerical scores to impart quick judgement on things. However, it is often difficult for human judgement to tie down complex subjects, analysis and experiences into a single number. This is where Natural Language Processing (NLP) can help.
While we humans often don’t have the time to read every single written analysis to get the complete picture, NLP can do it with ease. NLP can intelligently scan the text of every single analysis and distil all qualitative text into a single quantitative score that predicts a much more accurate and reliable reflection of the collective viewpoint.
We at AllianzGI envisage NLP playing a key role in the active asset management of tomorrow. NLP can help to provide insights that cuts through the common biases and distortions that arise from the standard investment metrics used in the industry.
Numbers, regardless of their relevancy or accuracy, can be easily compared to one another.
In contrast, a descriptive text or opinion often captures emotions and “gut feel”, which is much more subjective and open to interpretation.
As a result, qualitative language is much more cumbersome to compare.
- Adjust the language into a format the computer algorithm can analyse
- Clean the sentences to remove words with no productive power such as “I”, “to”, “we”, etc.
- Necessary step to run regression models required to analyse the words and come up with a solution
User review #1:
“My Favorite place to eat in Las Vegas! The BBQ Ribs are phenomenal, along with the $1 beers. Such a great Brewery!”
“My Favorite place to eat in Las Vegas! The BBQ Ribs are phenomenal, along with the $1 beers. Such a great Brewery!”
Predicted stars:
User review #2:
“I have great expectations, but they let me down, i order the carne asada salad, w beans, rice, tomatoes letuce and steak, but the dressing is to watery, too runny, the steak was blend and the rice mushy, also get the guac and chips, the chips way to salty, and the guac was bland, need a little lime , cilantro onions or seasoning, just taste like a mash avocados, the staff was very friendly, thats why i give the 5 stars, i hope you fix it all and for my next visit u will get the corn, (they didnt have it this time), good luck ...”
“I have great expectations, but they let me down, i order the carne asada salad, w beans, rice, tomatoes letuce and steak, but the dressing is to watery, too runny, the steak was blend and the rice mushy, also get the guac and chips, the chips way to salty, and the guac was bland, need a little lime , cilantro onions or seasoning, just taste like a mash avocados, the staff was very friendly, thats why i give the 5 stars, i hope you fix it all and for my next visit u will get the corn, (they didnt have it this time), good luck ...”
User's stars:
Predicted stars:
The investment world carries similar distortion of commonly used investment metrics from intended or unintended bias.
We have devised models that strip away biases in an analyst’s ratings, estimates and target prices using NLP.
Instances where actual score differs from predicted score offer differentiated viewpoint and opportunities for active management.
