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author Shah, Agam
Sukhani, Siddhant
Pardawala, Huzaifa
Budideti, Saketh
Bhadani, Riya
Gopal, Rudra
Somani, Siddhartha
Routu, Rutwik
Galarnyk, Michael
Lee, Soungmin
Hiray, Arnav
Ravichandran, Akshar
Kim, Eric
Aluru, Pranav
Zhang, Joshua
Jaskowski, Sebastian
Guda, Veer
Tarte, Meghaj
Ye, Liqin
Gosden, Spencer
Yuh, Rachel
Chava, Sloka
Chava, Sahasra
Kelly, Dylan Patrick
Chiang, Aiden
Mittal, Harsit
Chava, Sudheer
author_facet Shah, Agam
Sukhani, Siddhant
Pardawala, Huzaifa
Budideti, Saketh
Bhadani, Riya
Gopal, Rudra
Somani, Siddhartha
Routu, Rutwik
Galarnyk, Michael
Lee, Soungmin
Hiray, Arnav
Ravichandran, Akshar
Kim, Eric
Aluru, Pranav
Zhang, Joshua
Jaskowski, Sebastian
Guda, Veer
Tarte, Meghaj
Ye, Liqin
Gosden, Spencer
Yuh, Rachel
Chava, Sloka
Chava, Sahasra
Kelly, Dylan Patrick
Chiang, Aiden
Mittal, Harsit
Chava, Sudheer
contents Central banks around the world play a crucial role in maintaining economic stability. Deciphering policy implications in their communications is essential, especially as misinterpretations can disproportionately impact vulnerable populations. To address this, we introduce the World Central Banks (WCB) dataset, the most comprehensive monetary policy corpus to date, comprising over 380k sentences from 25 central banks across diverse geographic regions, spanning 28 years of historical data. After uniformly sampling 1k sentences per bank (25k total) across all available years, we annotate and review each sentence using dual annotators, disagreement resolutions, and secondary expert reviews. We define three tasks: Stance Detection, Temporal Classification, and Uncertainty Estimation, with each sentence annotated for all three. We benchmark seven Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) and nine Large Language Models (LLMs) (Zero-Shot, Few-Shot, and with annotation guide) on these tasks, running 15,075 benchmarking experiments. We find that a model trained on aggregated data across banks significantly surpasses a model trained on an individual bank's data, confirming the principle "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts." Additionally, rigorous human evaluations, error analyses, and predictive tasks validate our framework's economic utility. Our artifacts are accessible through the HuggingFace and GitHub under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
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spellingShingle Words That Unite The World: A Unified Framework for Deciphering Central Bank Communications Globally
Shah, Agam
Sukhani, Siddhant
Pardawala, Huzaifa
Budideti, Saketh
Bhadani, Riya
Gopal, Rudra
Somani, Siddhartha
Routu, Rutwik
Galarnyk, Michael
Lee, Soungmin
Hiray, Arnav
Ravichandran, Akshar
Kim, Eric
Aluru, Pranav
Zhang, Joshua
Jaskowski, Sebastian
Guda, Veer
Tarte, Meghaj
Ye, Liqin
Gosden, Spencer
Yuh, Rachel
Chava, Sloka
Chava, Sahasra
Kelly, Dylan Patrick
Chiang, Aiden
Mittal, Harsit
Chava, Sudheer
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Computers and Society
Computational Finance
General Finance
Central banks around the world play a crucial role in maintaining economic stability. Deciphering policy implications in their communications is essential, especially as misinterpretations can disproportionately impact vulnerable populations. To address this, we introduce the World Central Banks (WCB) dataset, the most comprehensive monetary policy corpus to date, comprising over 380k sentences from 25 central banks across diverse geographic regions, spanning 28 years of historical data. After uniformly sampling 1k sentences per bank (25k total) across all available years, we annotate and review each sentence using dual annotators, disagreement resolutions, and secondary expert reviews. We define three tasks: Stance Detection, Temporal Classification, and Uncertainty Estimation, with each sentence annotated for all three. We benchmark seven Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) and nine Large Language Models (LLMs) (Zero-Shot, Few-Shot, and with annotation guide) on these tasks, running 15,075 benchmarking experiments. We find that a model trained on aggregated data across banks significantly surpasses a model trained on an individual bank's data, confirming the principle "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts." Additionally, rigorous human evaluations, error analyses, and predictive tasks validate our framework's economic utility. Our artifacts are accessible through the HuggingFace and GitHub under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
title Words That Unite The World: A Unified Framework for Deciphering Central Bank Communications Globally
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Computers and Society
Computational Finance
General Finance
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17048