Ronen Feldman is a Full Professor of Internet Studies at the Hebrew University Business School. He is currently Head of the Data Science Department, and a member of the Hebrew University Research Students Committee, Admittance Committee, Teaching Committee, Development Committee, Recanati Center, and Asper Center.
Feldman is an expert in text mining and data mining, and his research areas include Information Extraction (IE), algorithmic trading, social networks, natural language processing, extracting meaning and relationships from text, and sentiment analysis from texts.
Prof. Feldman has served as a Senior Lecturer at Bar-Ilan University and as a Visiting Professor at NYU’s Stern Business School. His research has been published in Communications of the ACM, Marketing Science, Review of Accounting Studies, National Bureau of Economic Research, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Portfolio Management.
He has won the Abe Gray Prize for Excellence in Research, the Soref Post-Doctoral Fellowship from Bar-Ilan, and the Levi Eshkol Fellowship. Additionally, he has received academic grants from many institutions, including from the INTEL Corporation, MAFAAT, the Israel Science Foundation, the German-Israel Foundation, the Israeli Sciences and Arts Ministry, and the BSF (Bi-national Science Foundation).
Prof. Feldman is the founder of ClearForest Corporation, a Boston-based company specializing in development of text mining tools and applications. His work has been cited in Forbes, Globes, VentureBeat, Traders Magazine, and Calcalist.
Prof. Feldman earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University. He holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Bar-Ilan University, and an B.Sc. in Math, Physics, and Computer Science from Hebrew University.
He teaches the courses Text Mining for Business Applications and Data Science for Finance, in addition to a seminar in Data Science. He has published the books The Text Mining Handbook (Cambridge University Press) and Language, Culture, Computation: Computing Theory and Technology (Springer).
- Publications
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Selected Relevant Publications (Sorted by number of Citations)
- R Feldman, J Sanger. The text mining handbook: advanced approaches in analyzing unstructured data, Cambridge university press 2007 (3061 Citations)
- R Feldman. Techniques and applications for sentiment analysis. Communications of the ACM 56 (4), 82-89 2013 (1136 Citations)
- Netzer, R Feldman, J Goldenberg, M Fresko. Mine your own business: Market-structure surveillance through text mining. Marketing Science 31 (3), 521-543 2012 (584 citations)
- R Feldman, S Govindaraj, J Livnat, B Segal. Management’s tone change, post earnings announcement drift and accruals. Review of Accounting Studies 15 (4), 915-953, 2010 (414 citations)
- J Boudoukh, R Feldman, S Kogan, M Richardson. Which news moves stock prices? A textual analysis. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2013 (182 citations)
- R Feldman, B Rosenfeld, R Bar-Haim, M Fresko. The stock sonar—sentiment analysis of stocks based on a hybrid approach .twenty-third IAAI conference, 2011 (96 ciations)
- R Feldman, O Netzer, A Peretz, B Rosenfeld. Utilizing text mining on online medical forums to predict label change due to adverse drug reactions. Proceedings of the 21th ACM SIGKDD,2015 (41 citations).
- J Boudoukh, R Feldman, S Kogan, M Richardson. Information, trading, and volatility: Evidence from firm-specific news. The Review of Financial Studies 32 (3), 992-1033, 2019 (40 citations)
- R Feldman, J Livnat, Y Zhang. Analysts’ earnings forecast, recommendation, and target price revisions. The Journal of Portfolio Management 38 (3), 120-132, 2012 (37 citations)
- B Rosenfeld, R Feldman. Conditional random fields (crf)-based relation extraction system. US Patent App. 12/852,678, 2011 (32 citations)
- D Landau, R Feldman, O Lipshatz, Y Aumann, H Shemtov. Displaying time-series data and correlated events derived from text mining. US Patent 7,907,140, 2011 (31 citations)
- P Rigby, R Feldman. System and method for searching and identifying potential financial risks disclosed within a document. US Patent 8,180,713, 2012 (22 citations)
- Z Ben-Ami, R Feldman, B Rosenfeld. Entities’ sentiment relevance. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2014 (12 citations)
- Z Ben-Ami, R Feldman, B Rosenfeld. Using multi-view learning to improve detection of investor sentiments on twitter. Computación y Sistemas 18 (3), 477-490, 2014 (10 citations)
- R Feldman, M Fresko, J Goldenberg, O Netzer, L Ungar. Analyzing product comparisons on discussion boards. Language, Culture, Computation. Computing-Theory and Technology, 399-408, 2014 (4 citations)
- In the News
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https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-petah-tikva-based-amenity-analytics-raises-76m-1001202036
https://www.tradersmagazine.com/flashback/flash-friday-gallery-instinet-2019-quant-conference/
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3724917,00.html
- Awards & Honors
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Academic Awards and Fellowships
The Levi Eshkol Fellowship (1993-1995) 1992-1993 Soref Post Doctoral Fellowship, Bar-Ilan University. 2009 Abe Gray prize for Excellence in Research (50,000$)2013-2016: ISF, "Which News Moves Stock Prices? A Texual Analysis", 105,000$
2014-2017: INTEL Corporation, "Unsupervised relation Extraction", 150,000$
2010-2020: MAFAAT, “A Generic Sentiment Analysis Platform”, Principal Investigator, 500,000 $
Research Grants
1993-1994: France-Israel BI-national Research Grant on “Incremental Revision of Relational Models in Robotics and Vision”, $16,000
1995-1996: Israeli Ministry of Sciences and Arts, “Taming the Information Highway”, $100,000
1996-1997: TELRAD “Switch Analyst - An Expert System for Analyzing Telephony Switches”, $44,500
1996-1999: MAGNET “An Environment for Data Mining in the Information Highway”, Principal Investigator, $135,000
1996-1999: Israeli Ministry of Sciences and Arts, “Knowledge Discovery in Medical and Hospital Databases: A Generic Environment, High Level Language and Algorithmic Platform”, Project Coordinator and Principal Investigator, $400,000
1997-199: GIF (German-Israel Foundation), “Generic Environment and High Level Language for Knowledge Discovery in Texts”, Principal Investigator, $75,000
1998-1999: France-Israel Bi-national Research Grant on “Term Level Mining”, Principle Investigator, $45,000
1997-1998: TELRAD “Switch Miner - A Data Mining System for Telephony Switches”, Principal Investigator, $52,000
1998-2000: BSF (Bi-national Science Foundation) "Web Analysis Tools for Text Mining and Knowledge Discovery", Principal Investigator, $34,500
1999-2002: Israeli Ministry of Sciences and Arts, “Knowledge Discovery in Texts and Images”, Principal Investigator, $400,000
2004-2005: Biogen-IDEC, “Mining the BioMedical Literature”, Principal Investigator, $70,000
2005-2010: MAFAAT, “An Infrastructure for Text Mining and Link Analysis”, Principal Investigator, $200,000
2006-2008: MOST, “Privacy Preserving Data Mining”, Principal Investigator, $150,000
2007-2009: EPFL, “Internet Patrol”, 60,00SWF
2009-2011: GIF (German-Israel Foundation), “Opinion Mining from Religious Texts”, Principal Investigator (with Emmanuel Sivan), 180,000 Euro
2012-2015: MOS, "Mining Financial Microblogs", Principal Investigator, 40,000$
Teaching Awards
1985-1986 Outstanding teaching elected by the students in 1985 (Bar-Ilan University) 1995-1996 Best Lecturer Award, Michlelet Yosh, Ariel.