In conjunction with AACL-IJCNLP 2020 @ December 4, 2020, Online
Financial Technology (FinTech) is an emerging and popular topic in both financial and engineering domains, and the recent advances in natural language processing (NLP) are highly involved in the progress of FinTech. Workshops and shared tasks, including FNP, ECONLP, FinNLP, FiQA, and FinNum, have been introduced for sharing the ideas of interdisciplinary researchers. This suggests the importance of textual analysis for the information embedded in financial data.
In this tutorial, we will discuss the past and the recent works that leverage NLP technologies to solve the problems in the financial domain or improve the financial services, and further point out some future research directions. We hope that this tutorial can inspire interdisciplinary researchers to focus on this topic and set the cornerstone for future research.