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-# 🏦 Macroeconomic Sentiment Analysis Pipeline
+# 🏦 Macroeconomic Sentiment Analysis
 
-A multi-head NLP system for scoring macroeconomic text — news articles, central bank policy statements, regulatory documents, tweets, and climate/ESG reports.
+**What it does:** Takes any financial or economic text and tells you whether the sentiment is positive, negative, or neutral — plus whether the tone is hawkish/dovish, whether it signals a crisis, and how much it relates to climate/ESG.
 
-## What's New in v0.2.0
+**Who it's for:** Anyone analyzing news articles, central bank statements, earnings reports, financial tweets, or climate/ESG disclosures.
 
-All three transformer heads have been **fine-tuned on a combined 20K financial sentiment corpus**, dramatically improving accuracy:
+---
 
-| Head | Base Model | Params | v0.1 (off-the-shelf) | **v0.2 (fine-tuned)** |
-|------|-----------|--------|---------------------|-----------------------|
-| **FinBERT** | ProsusAI/finbert | 110M | ~0.67 acc | **0.897 acc / 0.881 F1** |
-| **RoBERTa-Large** | soleimanian/financial-roberta-large-sentiment | 355M | ~0.67 acc | **0.913 acc / 0.902 F1** |
-| **ClimateBERT** | climatebert/distilroberta-base-climate-sentiment | 82M | ~0.67 acc | **0.889 acc / 0.872 F1** |
+## The Simple Way (3 lines of Python)
 
-Fine-tuned models:
-- [`peyterho/finbert-macro-sentiment`](https://huggingface.co/peyterho/finbert-macro-sentiment)
-- [`peyterho/financial-roberta-large-macro-sentiment`](https://huggingface.co/peyterho/financial-roberta-large-macro-sentiment)
-- [`peyterho/climatebert-macro-sentiment`](https://huggingface.co/peyterho/climatebert-macro-sentiment)
+If you just want to classify financial text as positive/negative/neutral, use the fine-tuned models directly. No cloning, no extra packages — just `pip install transformers torch` and go:
 
-## Architecture
+```python
+from transformers import pipeline
 
-```
-Input Text
-    │
-    ├─► [Keyword Topic Router] ──► Policy/Macro ──► Financial-RoBERTa-Large
-    │                          ──► Climate/ESG  ──► ClimateBERT
-    │                          ──► News/Corp    ──► FinBERT
-    │                          ──► Social/Tweet ──► FinBERT
-    │
-    ├─► [Loughran-McDonald (2011)] ──► polarity, subjectivity
-    ├─► [Henry (2008)] ────────────► earnings tone
-    ├─► [Sautner et al. (2023)] ───► climate risk/opportunity density
-    ├─► [Macro Policy Dict] ───────► hawkish/dovish, crisis, uncertainty
-    │
-    └─► [Dynamic Combiner] ──► Weighted fusion with crisis-adaptive weights
-                           ──► Final macro sentiment score [-1, +1]
+# Pick one:
+classifier = pipeline("text-classification", model="peyterho/finbert-macro-sentiment")             # 110M, fast
+# classifier = pipeline("text-classification", model="peyterho/financial-roberta-large-macro-sentiment")  # 355M, most accurate
+# classifier = pipeline("text-classification", model="peyterho/climatebert-macro-sentiment")        # 82M, climate-focused
+
+# Classify any financial text
+classifier("Tesla shares surged 15% after beating earnings expectations.")
+# → [{'label': 'positive', 'score': 0.998}]
+
+classifier("Markets crashed amid recession fears and massive layoffs.")
+# → [{'label': 'negative', 'score': 0.997}]
+
+classifier("The company reported quarterly revenue in line with expectations.")
+# → [{'label': 'neutral', 'score': 0.95}]
 ```
 
-## Installation
+That's it. Each model outputs one of three labels: **positive**, **negative**, or **neutral**, with a confidence score.
 
-```bash
-pip install transformers torch pysentiment2 scikit-learn numpy datasets
+### Which model should I pick?
+
+| Model | Size | Speed | Accuracy | Best for |
+|-------|------|-------|----------|----------|
+| [`peyterho/finbert-macro-sentiment`](https://huggingface.co/peyterho/finbert-macro-sentiment) | 110M | Fast | 89.7% | General financial text — good default choice |
+| [`peyterho/financial-roberta-large-macro-sentiment`](https://huggingface.co/peyterho/financial-roberta-large-macro-sentiment) | 355M | Slower | **91.3%** | When accuracy matters most, policy/formal text |
+| [`peyterho/climatebert-macro-sentiment`](https://huggingface.co/peyterho/climatebert-macro-sentiment) | 82M | Fastest | 88.9% | Climate, ESG, and sustainability text |
+
+### Classify a batch of texts
+
+```python
+texts = [
+    "Fed raised rates by 75bps citing persistent inflation.",
+    "Renewable energy investments hit record highs.",
+    "Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy.",
+]
+results = classifier(texts)
+for text, result in zip(texts, results):
+    print(f"{result['label']:>8} ({result['score']:.2f})  {text}")
+# → neutral (0.91)  Fed raised rates by 75bps citing persistent inflation.
+#   positive (0.57)  Renewable energy investments hit record highs.
+#   negative (0.99)  Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy.
 ```
 
-Then clone this repo or copy the `macro_sentiment/` package:
+---
+
+## The Full Pipeline (more signals, more detail)
+
+If you need more than just positive/negative/neutral — like **hawkish/dovish policy stance**, **crisis detection**, **climate exposure**, and **uncertainty scoring** — use the full pipeline. This combines three AI models with four financial dictionaries.
+
+### Setup
 
 ```bash
-# Option 1: Clone the repo
-git clone https://huggingface.co/peyterho/macro-sentiment-finbert
-cd macro-sentiment-finbert
+pip install transformers torch pysentiment2 scikit-learn numpy datasets
 
-# Option 2: Download just the package
+# Download the pipeline code
 pip install huggingface_hub
-python -c "from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download; snapshot_download('peyterho/macro-sentiment-finbert', local_dir='.')"
+python -c "from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download; snapshot_download('peyterho/macro-sentiment-finbert', local_dir='macro-sentiment-finbert')"
+cd macro-sentiment-finbert
 ```
 
-## Quick Start
-
-### Full Pipeline (fine-tuned models, recommended)
+### Usage
 
 ```python
 from macro_sentiment import MacroSentimentPipeline
 
-# v0.2.0: Automatically uses fine-tuned models by default
-pipe = MacroSentimentPipeline(device="cpu")
+pipe = MacroSentimentPipeline(device="cpu")  # use "cuda:0" for GPU
 
 result = pipe("The Federal Reserve raised rates by 75bps citing persistent inflation.")
 print(result.summary())
-# Sentiment: ... | Policy: Very Hawkish (+0.999) | Crisis: Normal | Domain: policy
-
-# Access individual scores
-print(result.macro_sentiment)      # [-1, +1] composite score
-print(result.policy_stance)        # [-1 dovish, +1 hawkish]  
-print(result.crisis_signal)        # [0, 1] crisis intensity
-print(result.climate_exposure)     # [0, 1] climate topic density
-print(result.uncertainty)          # [0, 1] uncertainty level
+# → Sentiment: Neutral | Policy: Very Hawkish (+0.999) | Crisis: Normal | Domain: policy
 ```
 
-### Using Individual Fine-Tuned Models Directly
-
-Each fine-tuned head can be used standalone via the standard `transformers` pipeline — no need for the full macro_sentiment package:
+### What you get back
 
 ```python
-from transformers import pipeline
+result.macro_sentiment   # -1.0 to +1.0  — overall sentiment
+result.policy_stance     # -1.0 (dovish) to +1.0 (hawkish)
+result.crisis_signal     # 0.0 (calm) to 1.0 (crisis)
+result.uncertainty       # 0.0 (certain) to 1.0 (uncertain)
+result.climate_exposure  # 0.0 (no climate topic) to 1.0 (climate-heavy)
+result.detected_domain   # "policy", "climate", "financial_news", or "social"
+result.confidence        # 0.0 to 1.0 — how confident the model is
+```
 
-# FinBERT (110M) — general financial sentiment
-finbert = pipeline("text-classification", model="peyterho/finbert-macro-sentiment")
-finbert("Tesla shares surged 15% after beating earnings expectations.")
-# [{'label': 'positive', 'score': 0.998}]
+### How it works
 
-# RoBERTa-Large (355M) — best accuracy, policy/formal text
-roberta = pipeline("text-classification", model="peyterho/financial-roberta-large-macro-sentiment")
-roberta("Markets crashed amid recession fears and massive layoffs.")
-# [{'label': 'negative', 'score': 0.997}]
+When you feed in a text, the pipeline:
 
-# ClimateBERT (82M) — climate/ESG sentiment
-climate = pipeline("text-classification", model="peyterho/climatebert-macro-sentiment")
-climate("Renewable energy investments surged as solar costs fell to record lows.")
-# [{'label': 'opportunity', 'score': ...}]
-```
+1. **Routes it** to the right AI model based on keywords (central bank language → RoBERTa, climate terms → ClimateBERT, everything else → FinBERT)
+2. **Scores it** with four financial dictionaries (Loughran-McDonald, Henry, climate exposure, macro policy)
+3. **Combines** both signals with crisis-adaptive weighting — when crisis terms are detected, dictionary signals get more weight (AI models can struggle with novel crisis patterns)
 
-### Using the Ensemble Directly
+### Dictionary-only mode (instant, no GPU)
+
+If you don't need AI models — just dictionary-based scoring:
 
 ```python
-from macro_sentiment import TransformerEnsemble
+pipe = MacroSentimentPipeline(load_transformers=False)
+result = pipe("Markets crashed amid recession fears.", mode="dict_only")
+print(result.crisis_signal)    # 0.8 — high crisis
+print(result.policy_stance)    # -0.5 — dovish
+```
 
-# Fine-tuned models are the default (v0.2.0)
-ensemble = TransformerEnsemble(device="cpu")
+---
 
-# Route to the best head automatically
-result = ensemble.score_routed("ECB signals patience on rate cuts.")
-print(result["head_used"])         # "policy" (RoBERTa-Large)
-print(result["sentiment_score"])   # [-1, +1]
+## Accuracy
 
-# Score with all three heads
-result = ensemble.score_all("Markets tumbled on trade war fears.")
-print(result["ensemble_mean"])     # average of all 3 heads
-print(result["finbert_composite_score"])
-print(result["policy_composite_score"])
-print(result["climate_composite_score"])
-```
+All models were trained on 20,000 financial texts from 5 datasets (news headlines, tweets, audit reports, financial Q&A, climate reports) and tested on 4,333 held-out samples.
+
+| Model | Accuracy | F1 (macro) | Negative recall | Positive recall |
+|-------|----------|------------|-----------------|-----------------|
+| RoBERTa-Large (fine-tuned) | **91.3%** | **0.902** | — | — |
+| FinBERT (fine-tuned) | 89.7% | 0.881 | 89% | 91% |
+| ClimateBERT (fine-tuned) | 88.9% | 0.872 | — | — |
+| *Previous version (dict-only meta-classifier)* | *66.9%* | *0.578* | *47%* | *35%* |
+
+---
 
-### Customizing Which Models to Use
+## Advanced: Customizing the Ensemble
 
 ```python
 from macro_sentiment import TransformerEnsemble
-from macro_sentiment import ORIGINAL_FINBERT, ORIGINAL_ROBERTA, ORIGINAL_CLIMATEBERT
 
-# Use original off-the-shelf models (v0.1.0 behavior)
-ensemble = TransformerEnsemble(
-    finbert_model=ORIGINAL_FINBERT,         # "ProsusAI/finbert"
-    roberta_model=ORIGINAL_ROBERTA,         # "soleimanian/financial-roberta-large-sentiment"
-    climatebert_model=ORIGINAL_CLIMATEBERT,  # "climatebert/distilroberta-base-climate-sentiment"
-)
+# Default: uses all three fine-tuned models
+ensemble = TransformerEnsemble(device="cpu")
 
-# Mix and match: fine-tuned FinBERT + original RoBERTa + fine-tuned ClimateBERT
+# Or pick specific models for each head
 ensemble = TransformerEnsemble(
     finbert_model="peyterho/finbert-macro-sentiment",
-    roberta_model="soleimanian/financial-roberta-large-sentiment",
+    roberta_model="peyterho/financial-roberta-large-macro-sentiment",
     climatebert_model="peyterho/climatebert-macro-sentiment",
 )
 
-# Use any custom fine-tuned model
-ensemble = TransformerEnsemble(
-    finbert_model="your-org/your-custom-finbert",
-)
-```
-
-### Dictionary-Only Mode (no GPU, instant)
-
-```python
-pipe = MacroSentimentPipeline(load_transformers=False)
-result = pipe("Markets crashed amid recession fears.", mode="dict_only")
-print(result.policy_stance)    # hawkish/dovish from dictionary
-print(result.crisis_signal)    # crisis intensity from dictionary
-```
-
-## Output Fields
-
-| Field | Range | Description |
-|-------|-------|-------------|
-| `macro_sentiment` | [-1, +1] | Composite sentiment (weighted transformer + dictionary) |
-| `policy_stance` | [-1, +1] | Dovish (-1) to Hawkish (+1) — 80% dictionary, 20% transformer |
-| `financial_sentiment` | [-1, +1] | Financial sentiment from active transformer head |
-| `climate_sentiment` | [-1, +1] | Climate risk (-1) to opportunity (+1) |
-| `crisis_signal` | [0, 1] | Crisis intensity (drives dynamic weight adjustment) |
-| `uncertainty` | [0, 1] | Macroeconomic uncertainty level |
-| `confidence` | [0, 1] | Model confidence (agreement + topic confidence + uncertainty) |
-| `detected_domain` | str | `policy` / `climate` / `financial_news` / `social` |
-| `topic` | str | Human-readable topic label |
-| `head_used` | str | Which transformer head was activated |
-| `lm_polarity` | [-1, +1] | Loughran-McDonald polarity |
-| `henry_polarity` | [-1, +1] | Henry (2008) earnings tone |
-| `climate_exposure` | [0, 1] | Sautner-style climate term density |
-| `raw_features` | dict | All 24+ dictionary + transformer features |
-
-## Evaluation Results
-
-### v0.2.0 — Fine-Tuned Transformer Heads (4,333 test samples)
-
-| Model | Accuracy | F1 Macro | F1 Weighted |
-|-------|----------|----------|-------------|
-| **RoBERTa-Large (fine-tuned)** | **0.913** | **0.902** | **0.914** |
-| FinBERT (fine-tuned) | 0.897 | 0.881 | 0.898 |
-| ClimateBERT (fine-tuned) | 0.889 | 0.872 | 0.890 |
-
-### Per-Class Performance (Fine-Tuned FinBERT, 4,333 samples)
+# Route automatically to the best head for the input
+result = ensemble.score_routed("ECB signals patience on rate cuts.")
+print(result["head_used"])        # "policy"
+print(result["sentiment_score"])  # [-1, +1]
 
+# Or score with all three heads at once
+result = ensemble.score_all("Markets tumbled on trade war fears.")
+print(result["ensemble_mean"])
 ```
-              precision    recall  f1-score   support
 
-    negative     0.8051    0.8945    0.8474       711
-     neutral     0.9518    0.8925    0.9212      2613
-    positive     0.8417    0.9118    0.8754      1009
+To revert to the original off-the-shelf models:
+```python
+from macro_sentiment import ORIGINAL_FINBERT, ORIGINAL_ROBERTA, ORIGINAL_CLIMATEBERT
 
-    accuracy                         0.8973      4333
-   macro avg     0.8662    0.8996    0.8813      4333
-weighted avg     0.9021    0.8973    0.8984      4333
+ensemble = TransformerEnsemble(
+    finbert_model=ORIGINAL_FINBERT,
+    roberta_model=ORIGINAL_ROBERTA,
+    climatebert_model=ORIGINAL_CLIMATEBERT,
+)
 ```
 
-### v0.1.0 — Off-the-Shelf Baselines
-
-| Method | Accuracy | F1 Macro | F1 Weighted |
-|--------|----------|----------|-------------|
-| Dictionary Composite (LM+Henry) | 0.568 | 0.528 | 0.578 |
-| Meta-Classifier (Dict features) | 0.669 | 0.578 | 0.650 |
-
-### Improvement Summary
-
-| Metric | v0.1.0 (best) | v0.2.0 (best) | Δ |
-|--------|---------------|---------------|---|
-| Accuracy | 0.669 | **0.913** | +24.4pp |
-| F1 Macro | 0.578 | **0.902** | +32.4pp |
-| Negative Recall | 0.47 | **0.89** | +42pp |
-| Positive Recall | 0.35 | **0.91** | +56pp |
+---
 
-## Transformer Models
+## All Output Fields
 
-| Head | Fine-Tuned Model | Base Model | Params |
-|------|-----------------|-----------|--------|
-| **FinBERT** | [`peyterho/finbert-macro-sentiment`](https://huggingface.co/peyterho/finbert-macro-sentiment) | ProsusAI/finbert | 110M |
-| **RoBERTa-Large** | [`peyterho/financial-roberta-large-macro-sentiment`](https://huggingface.co/peyterho/financial-roberta-large-macro-sentiment) | soleimanian/financial-roberta-large-sentiment | 355M |
-| **ClimateBERT** | [`peyterho/climatebert-macro-sentiment`](https://huggingface.co/peyterho/climatebert-macro-sentiment) | climatebert/distilroberta-base-climate-sentiment | 82M |
+| Field | Range | What it means |
+|-------|-------|---------------|
+| `macro_sentiment` | -1 to +1 | Overall sentiment (negative ← 0 → positive) |
+| `policy_stance` | -1 to +1 | Dovish (rate cuts, easing) ← 0 → Hawkish (rate hikes, tightening) |
+| `financial_sentiment` | -1 to +1 | Raw financial sentiment from whichever AI model was used |
+| `climate_sentiment` | -1 to +1 | Climate risk ← 0 → Climate opportunity |
+| `crisis_signal` | 0 to 1 | 0 = calm, 1 = severe crisis language detected |
+| `uncertainty` | 0 to 1 | 0 = certain, 1 = highly uncertain |
+| `confidence` | 0 to 1 | How confident the pipeline is in its output |
+| `climate_exposure` | 0 to 1 | How much the text relates to climate/ESG topics |
+| `detected_domain` | text | `policy` / `climate` / `financial_news` / `social` |
+| `head_used` | text | Which AI model was activated |
+| `lm_polarity` | -1 to +1 | Loughran-McDonald dictionary score |
+| `henry_polarity` | -1 to +1 | Henry (2008) earnings tone score |
 
-## Dictionaries
-
-| Dictionary | Paper | Features |
-|-----------|-------|----------|
-| **Loughran-McDonald** | [LM (2011)](https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6261.2010.01625.x) | 5 features |
-| **Henry** | [Henry (2008)](https://doi.org/10.1177/0021943608319388) | 4 features |
-| **Climate Exposure** | [Sautner et al. (2023)](https://doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hhad097) style | 8 features |
-| **Macro Policy** | Custom | 7 features |
-
-Total: **24 dictionary features** per text input.
+---
 
 ## Training Data
 
-~20K train / ~4.3K test from 5 financial NLP datasets:
-
-| Dataset | Train | Test | Domain |
-|---------|-------|------|--------|
-| [Financial PhraseBank](https://huggingface.co/datasets/nickmuchi/financial-classification) | 4,551 | 506 | News headlines |
-| [Twitter Financial News](https://huggingface.co/datasets/zeroshot/twitter-financial-news-sentiment) | 9,543 | 2,388 | Social/tweets |
-| [Auditor Sentiment](https://huggingface.co/datasets/FinanceInc/auditor_sentiment) | 3,877 | 969 | Audit reports |
-| [FiQA](https://huggingface.co/datasets/pauri32/fiqa-2018) | 1,063 | 150 | Financial Q&A |
-| [Climate Sentiment](https://huggingface.co/datasets/climatebert/climate_sentiment) | 1,000 | 320 | Climate/ESG |
+~20,000 training samples from 5 public datasets:
 
-**Label distribution (train):** 15.9% negative, 58.4% neutral, 25.7% positive
+| Dataset | Samples | What it covers |
+|---------|---------|---------------|
+| [Financial PhraseBank](https://huggingface.co/datasets/nickmuchi/financial-classification) | 5,057 | News headlines about companies |
+| [Twitter Financial News](https://huggingface.co/datasets/zeroshot/twitter-financial-news-sentiment) | 11,931 | Financial tweets with $cashtags |
+| [Auditor Sentiment](https://huggingface.co/datasets/FinanceInc/auditor_sentiment) | 4,846 | Audit and accounting reports |
+| [FiQA](https://huggingface.co/datasets/pauri32/fiqa-2018) | 1,213 | Financial questions and opinions |
+| [Climate Sentiment](https://huggingface.co/datasets/climatebert/climate_sentiment) | 1,320 | Climate and ESG disclosures |
 
 ## File Structure
 
 ```
 macro_sentiment/
-├── __init__.py                 # Package exports (v0.2.0)
-├── dictionaries.py             # LM, Henry, Climate, Macro dictionary scorers
-├── transformers_ensemble.py    # FinBERT, RoBERTa, ClimateBERT heads + router
-├── pipeline.py                 # Unified MacroSentimentPipeline
-├── data_prep.py                # Dataset loading and combination
-└── train_meta.py               # Meta-classifier training script
-eval_results.json               # Evaluation metrics
-requirements.txt                # Dependencies
+├── __init__.py                 # Package entry point
+├── dictionaries.py             # Four financial dictionaries
+├── transformers_ensemble.py    # Three AI model heads + topic router
+├── pipeline.py                 # Full pipeline combining everything
+├── data_prep.py                # Dataset loading
+└── train_meta.py               # Meta-classifier training
 ```
 
-## Literature
+## References
 
+- Araci (2019). [FinBERT](https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10063) — Financial Sentiment Analysis with Pre-Trained Language Models
 - Loughran & McDonald (2011). "When Is a Liability Not a Liability?" *Journal of Finance*
 - Henry (2008). "Are Investors Influenced by How Earnings Press Releases Are Written?" *Journal of Business Communication*
 - Sautner et al. (2023). "Firm-Level Climate Change Exposure." *Review of Financial Studies*
-- Araci (2019). [FinBERT: Financial Sentiment Analysis with Pre-Trained Language Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10063)
-- Huang et al. (2023). [ClimateBERT](https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.12010)
 
 ## License
 Apache 2.0