Master's Thesis : Study of the correlation between stock market price and sentiment analysis of financial news

Abstract

In the goal to determine the correlation between the sentiment of financial newsand the stock market price, I collected financial articles from various sourcesand attributed them a sentiment with diverse sentiment analysis methods.I then explored the data to understand it and compute different features fromit. I used those features on different models in order to evaluate the possiblelink between the stock market price and the sentiment of financial newsAll of this was done taking into account and testing different parameters : timeseries data, time step of the prediction, selection of certain companies & sectorsand features extraction methods.