Quant Strats 2025

March 2026

Quorum by Convene, NY, USA

Ronen Feldman

Head of Technology, Quantitative Signals S&P Global

Ronen Feldman is a Full Professor of Data Science at Hebrew University Business School, specializing in text mining, information extraction, NLP, LLMs and algorithmic trading. A pioneer in information extraction and sentiment analysis, he has published in top-tier journals. As an entrepreneur, he founded ProntoNLP (acquired by S&P Global), ClearForest (acquired by Reuters), and Amenity Analytics (acquired by Symphony). He is currently the Head of Technology, Quantitative Signals, MI, at S&P Global. Feldman holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell and has authored The Text Mining Handbook (Cambridge University Press).

Tuesday March 11 agenda

3:50 PM Text to Alpha: A Novel Cartesian Framework for Quantifying Earnings Insights

ProntoNLP's AlphaLLM Aspect-Themes with Consensus signal introduces a groundbreaking Cartesian approach to analyzing earnings calls. This innovation combines horizontal Aspects (Forecast, StrategicPosition, CurrentState, Surprise) with vertical Themes (FinancialPerformance, OperationalPerformance, StrategicInitiatives, etc.) to create a rich multidimensional feature space. 

 

By representing corporate events as coordinates in this Aspect x Theme x Importance x Polarity grid, the model captures nuanced relationships between sentiment, thematic emphasis, and market impact that traditional linear NLP approaches miss. 

 

  • This novel framework, built on the Llama 3 architecture and fine-tuned on 10,000 expertly tagged paragraphs, further enhances its predictive power by incorporating analyst consensus data from S&P. The resulting 124-feature model delivers impressive backtested results across the S&P 1500 universe since 2010, with the long/short strategy achieving a 216.92% return and a Sharpe ratio of 1.52. The model's ability to process earnings calls on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis, weighting different document sections (prepared remarks vs. Q&A) differently, provides a depth of analysis previously unattainable with conventional NLP techniques. 

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