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Deep Learning and text analysis in Finance

Informations

Course number (Stud.IP):  39915 (lecture) + 39916 (tutorial)
Examination number: 262503 
Module:

Master Artificial Intelligence Engineering

Master Wirtschaftsinformatik

Master Business Administration

  • Vertiefung AFT
  • Vertiefung Winfo
Hours per week per semester: 4 (lecture+ tutorial)
Duration of the module: 1 semester
Cycle: Every winter term
Expected achievement: Exam and project
ECTS: 5

Recommended entry requirements

Programming skills are advantageous, but not absolutely necassary. Because of the basic knowledge from the Bachelor's degree, motivated students have all the requirements to pass this course successfully.

Possibilty to retake exam

If you have failed the exam, you can retake it corresponding to § 6 of your course and examination regulations.

  • Introduction in programming with Python
  • Neural networks (Forward, Recurrent and Convolutional) and their usage for
    • prediction and classification of financial data
    • composition of portfolio
    • identification of specifics in financial data (by using Autoencoder)
    • generation of artificial financial data (by using GANs)
  • Copy research
    • compromising of texts, wordfrequencies, topicmodelling, word vectors
    • sentiment and classifying of texts
  • Copy research of business reports, earning calls and financial news

Recommended Literature

  • Deep Learning (2016) – Goodfellow, I., Bengio, Y., Courville, A.; MIT Press
  • Machine Learning in Finance (2021) – Dixon, M.F., Halperin, I., Bilokon, P.; Springer Verlag
  • Machine Learning for Text (2018) – Aggarwal, C. C., Springer Verlag

Methods of Deep Learning and text analytics were primary developed to be used in other scientific sectors, such as image recognition or for example the usage of chatbots. However more and more current practices and publications allow the conclusion to be drawn that there is a big potential of this method for the economical sector. The target is to get a basic knowledge of the function of the methods discussed in this course and to identify their possibilities of usage in the economical sector.

Teaching form

  • Interactive lecture, including digital supporting documents and learning videos.
  • Interactive tutorials, including data analysis made by your own.
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