GOAT at the FinSim-2 task: Learning Word Representations of Financial Data with Customized Corpus
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this paper, we present our approaches for the FinSim 2021 Shared Task on Learning Semantic Similarities for the Financial Domain. The aim of the FinSim shared task is to automatically classify a given list of terms from the financial domain into the most relevant hypernym (or top-level) concept in an external ontology. Two different word representations have been compared in our study, i.e., customized word2vec provided by the shared task and FinBERT. We first create a customized corpus from the given prospectuses and relevant articles from Investopedia. Then we train the domain-specific word2vec embeddings using the customized data with customized word2vec and FinBERT as the initialized embeddings respectively. Our experimental results demonstrate that these customized word embeddings can effectively improve the classification performance and achieve better results than the direct utilization of the provided word embeddings. The class imbalance issue of the given data is also explored. We empirically study the classification performance by employing several different strategies for imbalanced classification problems. Our system ranks 2nd on both Average Accuracy and Mean Rank metrics.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.007 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".