Mining semantic features in patent text for financial distress prediction

Cuiqing Jiang, Yiru Zhou and Bo Chen

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2023, vol. 190, issue C

Abstract: Financial distress prediction has been a popular topic over the decades. Most studies have used accounting features from financial statements to predict financial distress. Compared to listed companies, unlisted public companies have longer financial disclosure cycles, less required disclosure of market trading information, and higher financial risk. However, they can also have a strong ability to innovate and great growth potential, attributes that cannot be fully reflected in financial statements. In this study, as a supplement to accounting features, we propose a framework for mining the statistical features and semantic features in patent text by comprehensively analyzing the patent's structured information, abstract, claims, citations, and specifications. The results of empirical evaluation confirm that patent features contain incremental information related to financial distress. This research broadens the feature space of financial distress research and expands the research on patent text. It also provides decision support for banks approving loans, investment decision-making, and patent pledges.

Keywords: Financial distress prediction; Patent; Technological innovation; Text mining; Semantic features (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122450

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