Sentiment Analysis Approach-digital

Compared with traditional finance, digital finance introduces digital technology for financial innovation, which largely reduces financial exclusion and discrimination, but improved financial services, such as mobile payment, online lending, virtual currency, and investment and wealth management, also involve potential risks. Hence, we propose a sentiment analysis model, GABP-News, to study the predictive ability of the information contained in news texts on digital financial development in China. Valence Awareness Dictionary for Sentiment Reasoning (VADER) is utilized to extract helpful information from news texts, and construct two sentiment indices, i.e., news titles and news contents, to test their predictive power respectively. Results demonstrate the usefulness of the GABP-News model for forecasting digital finance, suggesting that using sentiment variables from news titles and contents improves accuracy. It is also noted that the feature variables affecting the development of digital finance are not static, and their significant dynamic changes indicate the uncertainty of predicting digital finance. Finally, the feature variables predicting the development of digital finance are regionally heterogeneous. Compared with news contents sentiment, news title sentiment has a more relevance to each province. And trade openness is more critical for provinces with poorer digital financial development. Meanwhile, government expenditure is a vital feature variable for regions with more developed digital financial development.