arXiv:2603.23568cs.LGstat.ML2026-03

从稀疏新闻中重建稳定情感信号,提升金融分析可靠性。

Causal Reconstruction of Sentiment Signals from Sparse News Data

  • 将情感重建视为因果问题,分三阶段处理稀疏与冗余数据。
  • 发现情感信号比股价提前三周变动,且在不同配置下均成立。
  • 无需真实标签,通过稳定性与因果一致性评估模型效果。

从稀疏新闻中提取的情感信号广泛应用于金融分析与技术监测,但如何将原始文章级观测转化为可靠的时序数据仍是未解难题。不同于传统分类思路,本文将其建模为因果信号重建问题:在固定分类器输出概率情感值的基础上,恢复一个对新闻数据的结构性缺陷(如稀疏性、冗余、分类不确定性)具有鲁棒性的潜在情感时序。提出模块化三阶段流程:(i) 使用考虑不确定性和冗余的加权方式,将文章级评分聚合到规则时间网格;(ii) 通过严格因果投影规则填补覆盖空白;(iii) 应用因果平滑以减少残余噪声。由于纵向真实情感标签通常不可得,引入无标签评估框架,基于信号稳定性诊断、信息保留滞后代理以及因果合规性与冗余鲁棒性的反事实测试。作为外部验证,对2024年11月至2026年2月期间的AI相关新闻标题多公司数据集,检验重建信号与股价的一致性。关键实证发现:重建情感信号与股价之间存在稳定的三周领先滞后模式,且在所有测试配置和聚合方式下均持续存在,这一结构性规律比单一相关系数更具信息量。总体表明,稳定可部署的情感指标依赖于精心重建,而非仅依赖更优分类器。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Sentiment signals derived from sparse news are commonly used in financial analysis and technology monitoring, yet transforming raw article-level observations into reliable temporal series remains a largely unsolved engineering problem. Rather than treating this as a classification challenge, we propose to frame it as a causal signal reconstruction problem: given probabilistic sentiment outputs from a fixed classifier, recover a stable latent sentiment series that is robust to the structural pathologies of news data such as sparsity, redundancy, and classifier uncertainty. We present a modular three-stage pipeline that (i) aggregates article-level scores onto a regular temporal grid with uncertainty-aware and redundancy-aware weights, (ii) fills coverage gaps through strictly causal projection rules, and (iii) applies causal smoothing to reduce residual noise. Because ground-truth longitudinal sentiment labels are typically unavailable, we introduce a label-free evaluation framework based on signal stability diagnostics, information preservation lag proxies, and counterfactual tests for causality compliance and redundancy robustness. As a secondary external check, we evaluate the consistency of reconstructed signals against stock-price data for a multi-firm dataset of AI-related news titles (November 2024 to February 2026). The key empirical finding is a three-week lead lag pattern between reconstructed sentiment and price that persists across all tested pipeline configurations and aggregation regimes, a structural regularity more informative than any single correlation coefficient. Overall, the results support the view that stable, deployable sentiment indicators require careful reconstruction, not only better classifiers.

情感分析因果推断金融文本信号重建

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