Predictions of steel price indices through machine learning for the regional northeast Chinese market

B **, X Xu - Neural Computing and Applications, 2024 - Springer
Projections of commodity prices have long been a significant source of dependence for
investors and the government. This study investigates the challenging topic of forecasting …

Thermal coal futures trading volume predictions through the neural network

B **, X Xu, Y Zhang - Journal of Modelling in Management, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Predicting commodity futures trading volumes represents an important matter to
policymakers and a wide spectrum of market participants. The purpose of this study is to …

Machine learning price index forecasts of flat steel products

B **, X Xu - Mineral Economics, 2024 - Springer
Investors and authorities have always placed a high emphasis on commodity price
forecasting. In this study, the issue of daily price index forecasting for flat steel products on …

[HTML][HTML] Text mining the food security literature reveals substantial spatial bias and thematic broadening over time

MW Cooper, ME Brown, MT Niles, MM ElQadi - Global Food Security, 2020 - Elsevier
We conducted text mining analyses on nearly the entirety of academic literature related to
food security. Assessing the literature's spatial scope, we found a truly global body of …

The use of sentiment and emotion analysis and data science to assess the language of nutrition-, food-and cooking-related content on social media: a systematic …

A Molenaar, EL Jenkins, L Brennan… - Nutrition Research …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Social media data are rapidly evolving and accessible, which presents opportunities for
research. Data science techniques, such as sentiment or emotion analysis which analyse …

Forecasting wholesale prices of yellow corn through the Gaussian process regression

B **, X Xu - Neural Computing and Applications, 2024 - Springer
For market players and policy officials, commodity price forecasts are crucial problems that
are challenging to address due to the complexity of price time series. Given its strategic …

[HTML][HTML] Soybean and soybean oil price forecasting through the nonlinear autoregressive neural network (NARNN) and NARNN with exogenous inputs (NARNN–X)

X Xu, Y Zhang - Intelligent Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
Price forecasting is a key concern for market participants in the agriculture sector. This study
explores usefulness of the nonlinear autoregressive neural network (NARNN) and NARNN …

Steel price index forecasting through neural networks: the composite index, long products, flat products, and rolled products

X Xu, Y Zhang - Mineral Economics, 2023 - Springer
Forecasting commodity prices is a vital issue to a wide spectrum of market participants and
policy makers in the metal sector. In this work, the forecast problem is investigated by …

Corn cash-futures basis forecasting via neural networks

X Xu, Y Zhang - Advances in Computational Intelligence, 2023 - Springer
Cash-futures basis forecasting represents a vital concern for various market participants in
the agricultural sector, which has been rarely explored due to limitations on data and …

Regional steel price index predictions for North China through machine learning

B **, X Xu - International Journal of Mining and Mineral …, 2024 - inderscienceonline.com
Projections of commodity prices have long been heavily relied upon by investors and the
government. This study examines the challenging task of estimating the daily regional steel …