The Handbook of News Analytics in Finance

Acknowledgments

Leela and I would like to thank Leela's mother and my dear wife Dhira for her help in putting this volume together. Dhira has helped us in many aspects of editing this book—communicating with the contributors, the publishers, and the sponsors. She has done so always with a smile and she only frowned whenever one of us (Gautam) kept missing the schedule. Without her help we would have missed the boat. We would not have studied and researched news analytics (NA) had we not been invited to spend a brainstorming weekend in early January 2008 at RavenPack's R&D villa in Marbella, Spain. We got smitten by the research challenges that were presented to us; subsequently, one of us, that is, Leela delved deeper into the subject as part of her PhD research. We also realized that NA, despite being in the early stages of its development, holds great promise as a modeling tool to enhance financial analytics. We therefore decided that the information and research results that we are still gathering should be shared widely with practitioners and the academic community by compiling this handbook. The handbook has also been championed by RavenPack and Thomson Reuters. They have contributed financially (platinum sponsors) and have actively solicited on our behalf contributions from industry leaders. Grateful thanks are therefore due to Armando Gonzales and Richard Brown of RavenPack and Thomson Reuters, respectively. The sponsorships of Media Sentiment and Northfield Information ...