id: 05547714 dt: a an: 05547714 au: Lu, Hsin-Min; Huang, Nina WanHsin; Zhang, Zhu; Chen, Tsai-Jyh ti: Identifying firm-specific risk statements in news articles. so: Chen, Hsinchun (ed.) et al., Intelligence and security informatics. Pacific Asia workshop, PAISI 2009, Bangkok, Thailand, April 27, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-01392-8/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5477, 42-53 (2009). py: 2009 pu: Berlin: Springer la: EN cc: ut: risk management; epistemic modality; evidentiality; machine learning ci: li: doi:10.1007/978-3-642-01393-5_6 ab: Summary: Textual data are an important information source for risk management for business organizations. To effectively identify, extract, and analyze risk-related statements in textual data, these processes need to be automated. We developed an annotation framework for firm-specific risk statements guided by previous economic, managerial, linguistic, and natural language processing research. A manual annotation study using news articles from the Wall Street Journal was conducted to verify the framework. We designed and constructed an automated risk identification system based on the annotation framework. The evaluation using manually annotated risk statements in news articles showed promising results for automated risk identification. rv: