Abstract: The user generated content (UGC) of the stock forum can reflect the concerns and opinions of the stakeholders of the listed company on the company's operating performance and related events. It is timely and dynamic, and is an effective supplement to financial information. In order to effectively extract the dynamic UGC, this paper proposes a method for predicting the financial distress of listed companies that integrates the UGC time series characteristics of the stock forum. Firstly, for the time series information in user comments and user reading, considering the time series of emotional features and interactive information, the gated recurrent unit (GRU) deep recurrent network model is used to mine dynamic information in time series. Secondly, events in different time periods have different effects on financial distress prediction, and attention mechanism is used to aggregate the effects of major events on financial distress prediction. Finally, the financial distress of listed companies is predicted based on the UGC time series characteristics extracted and combined with the financial features. The research shows that the method proposed in this paper can effectively extract and aggregate time series characteristics, thus improving the prediction effect of financial distress.
Keywords: stock forum; time series characteristics; gated recurrent unit (GRU); attention mechanism; financial distress prediction