metadata
license: other
tags:
- finance
- nlp
- sec-filings
- item-1a
- volatility
- bert
- bertopic
pretty_name: Dissertation Phase 1 Dataset — Hybrid Financial Risk Modelling
Dissertation Dataset — Phase 1 Data Pipeline
Project: Hybrid Topic and Domain-Adaptive Modelling for Financial Risk and Forecasting Institution: University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics Supervisor: Prof Tiejun Ma
This is a private research dataset. All files are used exclusively within the scope of this dissertation project and must not be redistributed.
What This Repo Contains
This dataset repo holds all Phase 1 pipeline outputs needed to run Phases 2–5 of the dissertation. It is the single source of truth for the cluster environment.
| File | Size | Description |
|---|---|---|
sp500_1A.tar.gz |
~440 MB | Item 1A Risk Factor text corpus — 8,247 pickle files, one per {TICKER}_{YEAR}, covering S&P 500 firms 2006–2025. Each pickle is a plain string of the full Item 1A section. |
feature_table.parquet |
~0.2 MB | Phase 1 master table — 8,105 rows, one per filing. Columns: ticker, cik, permno, sic, fiscal_year, filing_date, report_date, lagged_vol_30d, fwd_vol_30d. Placeholder columns for embedding (Phase 2) and topic_vector (Phase 4). |
filings_index.csv |
~0.9 MB | EDGAR submissions API output — filing dates, SIC codes, and has_pickle flag for all 656 CIKs. 11,447 total 10-K filings (2006–2025). |
volatility_labels.csv |
~0.7 MB | 30-day annualised volatility windows per filing. lagged_vol_30d = AR(1) baseline; fwd_vol_30d = prediction target. 94.9% coverage. |
permno_linkage.csv |
<0.1 MB | CIK → PERMNO mapping from WRDS CCM. 651/656 firms matched. |
sp500_union_constituents(1).csv |
<0.1 MB | S&P 500 universe — 656 unique CIK/ticker pairs (historical constituents). |
README.md |
— | This file. |
How to Download on the Cluster
# One-time login
huggingface-cli login
# Download all files
huggingface-cli download SarthakVishnu/dissertation-dataset \
--repo-type dataset \
--local-dir ~/dissertation/datasets/
# Unzip the Item 1A corpus
cd ~/dissertation/datasets/
tar -xzf sp500_1A.tar.gz && rm sp500_1A.tar.gz
How Each File Is Used Per Phase
| Phase | Files Used |
|---|---|
| Phase 2 — DAPT | sp500_1A/ (MLM pretraining corpus, train split ≤2024) |
| Phase 3 — Contrastive FT | sp500_1A/ + filings_index.csv (SIC codes for sector-view positive pairs) |
| Phase 4 — BERTopic | sp500_1A/ + feature_table.parquet (per-filing topic vectors) |
| Phase 5 — Ablation | feature_table.parquet + volatility_labels.csv (downstream vol forecasting) |
Temporal Split
| Split | Criterion | Approx. Filings | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Train | filing_date < 2025-01-01 |
~7,700 | DAPT, contrastive FT, BERTopic |
| Val | 2025-01-01 ≤ filing_date < 2026-01-01 |
~280 | Perplexity checkpointing, FinMTEB eval |
| Test | filing_date ≥ 2026-01-01 |
~125 | Held-out volatility forecasting |
Licence & Ethics
- Item 1A text and EDGAR-derived data are from publicly available SEC filings.
- WRDS/CRSP-derived data (
permno_linkage.csv,volatility_labels.csv,feature_table.parquet) is used under the University of Edinburgh's institutional licence and must not be redistributed externally. - No personal data or human subjects are involved.