Journal of Operational Risk
ISSN:
1744-6740 (print)
1755-2710 (online)
Editor-in-chief: Marcelo Cruz
Machine learning for categorization of operational risk events using textual description
Suren Pakhchanyan, Christian Fieberg, Daniel Metko and Thomas Kaspereit
Need to know
- Machine learning algorithms can be used to pre-categorize operational risk event descriptions into Basel II event types.
- This study provides parsimonius Phython code to categorize operational risk events, which we anticipate can be adapted to other categorizations (for example SREP/ORX or internal event categories) with little effort.
- By using our proposed methodology, internal and external auditors as well as supervisory authorities reviewing operational risk by financial institutions can improve the review process by analyzing the entire data population instead of conducting random checks.
- Machine learning has the potential to enable operational risk data providers to improve mapping or validating of received data, to increase efficiency and reduce costs.
Abstract
This paper provides an overview of how machine learning can help in categorizing textual descriptions of operational loss events into Basel II event types. We apply PYTHON implementations of support vector machine and multinomial naive Bayes algorithms to precategorized Öffentliche Schadenfälle OpRisk (ÖffSchOR) data to demonstrate that operational loss events can be automatically assigned to one of the seven Basel II event types with very few costs and satisfactory accuracy. Our comprehensive case study on ÖffSchOR data, which includes the provision of parsimonious PYTHON code, is also useful for practitioners, who can use this knowledge to improve the cost efficiency and/or reliability of their processes for categorizing operational risk events.
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