{"id":294,"date":"2023-01-29T17:16:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T17:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fintext.ai\/?page_id=294"},"modified":"2026-08-31T21:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:00:09","slug":"gold-standard-financial-benchmarks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fintext.ai\/?page_id=294","title":{"rendered":"Gold-Standard Financial Benchmarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We introduce the first <em>gold-standard financial benchmark<\/em> for systematically comparing word embeddings using a financial language framework. This benchmark covers seven groups of financial analogies. Each group contains 80 analogies reaching 2660 unique analogies in total for all groups. All financial analogies are developed using the Bureau van Dijk\u2019s Orbis database and are available for <a href=\"https:\/\/fintext.ai\/?page_id=44\">download<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the table below, the first five groups cover publicly listed US companies, the sixth group mixes US and UK publicly listed companies, and the last group mixes US, UK, China, and Japan publicly listed companies. \u2018Ticker\u2019 is the security ticker identifier, \u2018Name\u2019 is the full name of the company, \u2018City\u2019 is the headquarters location, \u2018Exchange\u2019 is the stock exchange where the company\u2019s share is traded, \u2018Country\u2019 is the country where headquarters is located, \u2018State\u2019 (for US companies) is the state where the headquarters is located, and finally \u2018Incorporation year\u2019 is the incorporation year of the company. To generate sufficient challenges, we chose the top 20, 10 and 5 companies from the \u2018very large companies\u2019 class for groups I-V, VI and VII, respectively. The permutation of chosen companies in each group generates 380 unique analogies for each group and 2660 analogies in total. The accuracy of each word embedding is reported for each group and all groups (overall).<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fintext.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Financial_Benchmark_Table.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"252\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-800\" style=\"display:block; margin:0 auto;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fintext.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Financial_Benchmark_Table.jpg 2042w, https:\/\/fintext.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Financial_Benchmark_Table-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fintext.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Financial_Benchmark_Table-1024x430.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fintext.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Financial_Benchmark_Table-768x322.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fintext.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Financial_Benchmark_Table-1536x645.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/fintext.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Financial_Benchmark_Table-800x336.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The specialised FinText embeddings substantially outperform the general-purpose embeddings on finance-specific analogy tasks. The FinText specification achieves the highest accuracy in every benchmark group, with FinText Word2Vec (CBOW) attaining the highest overall top-5 accuracy of 19.59%. In comparison, the overall accuracies of Google Word2Vec and WikiNews are only 0.04% and 0.45%, respectively. Thus, the best-performing FinText specification achieves an overall accuracy approximately 490 times that of Google Word2Vec and 44 times that of WikiNews. These results indicate that domain-specific training enables FinText to capture the finance-specific relationships represented in the benchmark substantially more effectively than the general-purpose alternatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We introduce the first gold-standard financial benchmark for systematically comparing word embeddings using a financial language&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-294","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fintext.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fintext.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fintext.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fintext.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fintext.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/fintext.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/fintext.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fintext.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}