Publications

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Latest publications on Natural Language Processing

Global | Geopolitical risk and economic policy uncertainty

March 10, 2025

The increasingly volatile geopolitical landscape and the rapid advance of artificial intelligence have turned geopolitical risk and economic policy uncertainty indices into essential tools. But what do they measure and how do they do it?

Big Data techniques used

Global | Tracking the Semiconductor Sector: An AI approach with NLP and Big Data

December 21, 2023

We analyze the evolution of the semiconductor industry with the use of Big Data from global news databases (from GDELT) and NLP tecniques for sentiment analysis. By complementing with Google Trends and other BBVA Research geopolitical indicators, we analyze the main actors and components of the industry evolution.

Big Data techniques used

Global | BBVA Research Geopolitical Monitor: NLP for Event Tracking and Sentiment Analysis

November 30, 2023

The BBVA Research geopolitical monitor gathers real-time geopolitical indicators constructed from news processed with NLP, which allow for monitoring the media reaction to geopolitical and social events. This note has been published in the European Money and Finance Forum (SUERF).

Big Data techniques used

Disentangling risks, activity and performance based on US corporate reports

November 21, 2019

The NLP importance in business and economics as a key source of information to enrich business and economic analysis. US corporate quarterly and annual reports provide a comprehensive overview on a company's activities and financial performance throughout the year and future plans.

Big Data techniques used

How do the EM Central Bank talk? A Big Data approach to the Central Bank of Turkey

December 4, 2017

We apply the natural language processing or computational linguistics (NLP) to the analysis of the communication policy (i.e statements and minutes) of the Central Bank of Turkey (CBRT). While previous literature has focused on Developed countries, we extend the NLP analysis to the Central Banks of the Emerging Markets using the Dynamic Topic Modelling approach.

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