This article presents an overview of the textual analysis of companies’ regulatory filings. More specifically, it provides a discussion on readability indices, and new developments in this area of research. Next, the article discusses six different risk sentiment metrics, one by Feng Li (2006)...

Determining the "root cause" or "root causes" of an observed anomaly is pervasive in everyday life and yet such inferences are difficult since potential causes may be represented in various ways such as mutually exclusive (single cause) or not-mutually exclusive (multiple causes) and as...