Data Finance Word Lists and Content Analysis Tools 10-K Header Data w/ Latitude and Longitude ND Ethics Database South Bend Weather Websites www.finif.com - real time analytics for 10-K/Q filings, news and tweets | Readability measures | Going Concern flags Edgar text search Edgar company search · Dow Jones Analytics	Bill McDonald Professor of Finance Thomas A. and James J. Bruder Chair in Administrative Leadership
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	Textual Analysis Tools This page contains some tools that are useful for textual analysis in financial applications. The essential method of textual analysis goes by various labels in other disciplines such as content analysis, natural language processing, information retrieval, or computational linguistics. A growing literature finds significant relations between stock price reactions to the sentiment of information releases as measured by word classifications such as those provided below. Additionally we provide a new measure of readability based on the SEC's Plain English initiative.
	Loughran and McDonald Financial Sentiment Dictionaries Note: We thank Cam Harvey and others who suggested some of the modifications we’ve included in v2 of these lists. The word lists are described in Loughran and McDonald (Journal of Finance, V66, pp. 35-65, 2011). · Negative Words-v2 · Positive Words-v2 · Uncertainty Words-v2 · Litigious Words-v2 · Modal Words Strong-v2 · Modal Words Weak-v2 · Download zip folder with all lists Harvard-IV-4 Psychological Dictionary TagNeg File with Inflections · Harvard IV Negative Word List_Inf.txt Because of the inherent imprecision of stemming, we have expanded the Harvard list to include relevant inflections. General Word Lists · Master Dictionary Derived from release 4.0 of 2of12inf. Extended to include words appearing in 10-K documents that are not found in the original 2of12inf word list. · Stop words 1. Generic 2. Names 3. Dates and numbers 4. Geographic 5. Currencies 10-K Dictionary · 10-K Dictionary Tabulation of all words appearing in 10-K documents from 1994-2008, excluding sections tagged as tables with more than 25% numbers and excluding exhibits. The file contains the word, word count, and number of documents containing at least one occurrence of the word. (csv format)
	Plain English Measure for 10-Ks 1994-2007 · Plain English_LoughranMcDonald.txt File with Plain English measure for the sample in Loughran and McDonald (2009). CIK, filedate and Plain English value in csv format.
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