http://repository.iiitd.edu.in/xmlui/handle/123456789/971 2026-04-11T19:04:14Z http://repository.iiitd.edu.in/xmlui/handle/123456789/997 Multimodal multi-speaker merger & acquisition (M3A) financial forecasting: a new task, dataset, and neural baselines Goel, Prakhar; Goyal, Mihir; Shah, Rajiv Ratn (Advisor) Financial risk prediction is an essential task in today’s financial markets, especially with the disclosure of important information such as Merger and Acquisition (M&A) calls nowadays. M&A calls often provide key insights into the confidence levels and agreeability between the different high ranking members of an organization concerning a merger or acquisition in the form of subtle vocal cues and verbal messages. Variations in vocal features such as pitch can suggest doubt and a lack of confidence that may discredit the message spoken. Additionally, information about the speaker of the message can assist the system in making better predictions. To aid the analysis of M&A calls, we curate a dataset of conference call transcripts and audios from the past 5 years. We propose strong baseline architectures to accompany the model that takes advantage of the multimodal multi-speaker input to perform financial forecasting. Empirical results show the improvement that our architecture gives over existing models. 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z http://repository.iiitd.edu.in/xmlui/handle/123456789/972 Online schooling during covid-19 era Walia, Angel; Eden, Grace (Advisor) 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z