From text to signal: building custom features with RavenPack Annotations

Webinar  |  June 18, 2026

How sentence-level annotation data from earnings call transcripts can be turned into independent, production-ready signals.

Edge Webinar: From text to signal - building custom features with RavenPack Annotations
Date June 18, 2026
Time 10:00 AM EST / 4:00 PM CET
Duration 25 min + Q&A (45 min total)
Format Online, free to attend

We start with Annotations, but most datasets only expose the derived analytics, which necessarily results in some level of information compression. RavenPack Annotations exposes the layer beneath — entity, event, and sentence-level sentiment data, mapped to exact positions in the source text, with embeddings and 20+ years of history.

Join us for this upcoming webinar that looks at how that structure can be used to build signals directly. Using FactSet earnings call transcripts (Q&A sections), we'll cover:

Signals covered in the session

Readability dispersion in Q&A

Flesch readability of analyst questions vs. management answers, and the gap between them. A long–short factor on the gap delivers ~440 bps annualized over the past decade.

Q&A sentiment split

Sentence-level sentiment, separated for questions and answers. Question sentiment: ~410 bps annualized. Answer sentiment: ~370 bps annualized.

Same dataset, multiple independent signals. The data is available in real time, so research outputs can be taken into production without structural changes.

Who should attend

  • Quant researchers
  • Portfolio managers
  • ML/NLP teams
Peter Hafez
Peter Hafez
Chief Data Scientist

From text to signal: building custom features with RavenPack Annotations

June 18, 2026  |  10:00 AM EST / 4:00 PM CET

Peter is the head of data science at RavenPack. Since joining RavenPack in 2008, he's been a pioneer in the field of applied news analytics bringing alternative data insights to the world's top banks and hedge funds. Peter has more than 15 years of experience in quantitative finance with companies such as Standard & Poor's, Credit Suisse First Boston, and Saxo Bank. He holds a Master's degree in Quantitative Finance from Sir John Cass Business School along with an undergraduate degree in Economics from Copenhagen University. Peter is a recognized speaker at quant finance conferences on alternative data and AI.

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