FinTruthQA: A Benchmark for AI-Driven Financial Disclosure Quality Assessment in Investor -- Firm Interactions
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FinTruthQA benchmark shows models score above 95% on financial question tasks but only 80% on answer relevance.
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Core claim
FinTruthQA is presented as the first benchmark for AI assessment of financial disclosure quality in investor-firm interactions. It contains 6,000 manually annotated real-world entries evaluated on question identification, question relevance, answer readability, and answer relevance. Benchmarking shows existing models reach F1 scores above 95% on the question criteria but only around 88% on answer readability and 80% on answer relevance, with task-adapted pre-trained language models performing best overall.
What carries the argument
FinTruthQA dataset of 6,000 annotated financial Q&A entries, labeled according to four evaluation criteria for disclosure quality.
If this is right
- Regulatory oversight could apply similar automated checks to monitor firm responses across many interactions.
- Investor tools could filter out low-relevance answers to improve decision-making.
- Model development would shift toward better handling of answer relevance in financial domains.
- Corporate disclosure practices could be influenced by scalable quality scoring systems.
Where Pith is reading between the lines
- The same annotation approach could be extended to investor platforms in other countries or languages.
- The gap on answer relevance points to a need for models that better capture semantic alignment in specialized financial text.
- Training on this benchmark might produce systems that encourage firms to give more substantive answers.
Load-bearing premise
The four chosen annotation criteria and the manual labeling process produce reliable, representative measures of actual financial disclosure quality in investor-firm interactions.
What would settle it
A direct comparison of the dataset's labels against independent ratings by financial regulators or experienced analysts on a held-out sample, where substantial disagreement would show the criteria do not track true disclosure quality.
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Accurate and transparent financial information disclosure is essential for market efficiency, investor decision-making, and corporate governance. Chinese stock exchanges' investor interactive platforms provide a widely used channel through which listed firms respond to investor concerns, yet these responses are often limited or non-substantive, making disclosure quality difficult to assess at scale. To address this challenge, we introduce FinTruthQA, to our knowledge the first benchmark for AI-driven assessment of financial disclosure quality in investor-firm interactions. FinTruthQA comprises 6,000 real-world financial Q&A entries, each manually annotated based on four key evaluation criteria: question identification, question relevance, answer readability, and answer relevance. We benchmark statistical machine learning models, pre-trained language models and their fine-tuned variants, as well as large language models (LLMs), on FinTruthQA. Experiments show that existing models achieve strong performance on question identification and question relevance (F1 > 95%), but remain substantially weaker on answer readability (Micro F1 approximately 88%) and especially answer relevance (Micro F1 approximately 80%), highlighting the nontrivial difficulty of fine-grained disclosure quality assessment. Domain- and task-adapted pre-trained language models consistently outperform general-purpose models and LLM-based prompting on the most challenging settings. These findings position FinTruthQA as a practical foundation for AI-driven disclosure monitoring in capital markets, with value for regulatory oversight, investor protection, and disclosure governance in real-world financial settings.
Editorial analysis
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Referee Report
Summary. The paper introduces FinTruthQA, a benchmark of 6,000 real-world financial Q&A entries from Chinese stock exchange investor interactive platforms. Each entry receives manual annotation on four criteria (question identification, question relevance, answer readability, answer relevance). Benchmarking of statistical ML models, PLMs and fine-tuned variants, and LLMs shows strong performance (F1 > 95%) on the question tasks but substantially weaker results on answer readability (~88% Micro F1) and answer relevance (~80% Micro F1). The work positions the dataset as a practical foundation for AI-driven disclosure quality monitoring with applications to regulation and investor protection.
Significance. If the annotations are shown to be reliable, the benchmark supplies a needed resource for evaluating models on a high-stakes, domain-specific task with direct relevance to market efficiency and corporate governance. The use of authentic investor-firm interactions and the consistent outperformance of domain-adapted PLMs over general models and prompting baselines are concrete strengths that could guide future work.
major comments (1)
- [Abstract and Dataset Construction] Abstract and (presumed) §3 Dataset Construction: the reported aggregate F1 numbers are presented without any documentation of annotation guidelines, inter-annotator agreement statistics, annotator financial expertise, sampling procedure, class balance, or adjudication process. Because answer readability and answer relevance are subjective, the absence of these details directly undermines the central claim that the ~80% Micro F1 on answer relevance reflects genuine task difficulty rather than label noise.
minor comments (1)
- Add a table or paragraph reporting label distributions and any error analysis to allow readers to assess balance and common failure modes.
Simulated Author's Rebuttal
We thank the referee for the constructive feedback highlighting the need for greater transparency in our dataset construction. We address the major comment below.
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Referee: [Abstract and Dataset Construction] Abstract and (presumed) §3 Dataset Construction: the reported aggregate F1 numbers are presented without any documentation of annotation guidelines, inter-annotator agreement statistics, annotator financial expertise, sampling procedure, class balance, or adjudication process. Because answer readability and answer relevance are subjective, the absence of these details directly undermines the central claim that the ~80% Micro F1 on answer relevance reflects genuine task difficulty rather than label noise.
Authors: We agree that the absence of these details in the current manuscript is a limitation that weakens the interpretability of the results on the more subjective criteria. In the revised version we will expand §3 (Dataset Construction) with the requested information, including the annotation guidelines, inter-annotator agreement statistics, annotator financial expertise and training, sampling procedure, class balance per criterion, and the adjudication process. These additions will allow readers to evaluate whether the performance gap on answer relevance primarily reflects task difficulty. revision: yes
Circularity Check
No circularity: empirical dataset creation and held-out model evaluation
full rationale
The paper constructs FinTruthQA as a manually annotated dataset of 6000 real-world Q&A entries using four fixed criteria, then evaluates off-the-shelf and fine-tuned models on held-out splits. No equations, fitted parameters, or predictions are defined in terms of the target metrics; performance numbers are direct empirical measurements. No self-citation chains or uniqueness theorems are invoked to justify the benchmark itself. The work is self-contained against external benchmarks (real financial disclosures) and does not reduce any claimed result to its own inputs by construction.
Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger
axioms (1)
- domain assumption The four evaluation criteria (question identification, question relevance, answer readability, answer relevance) are sufficient and appropriate for assessing financial disclosure quality.
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FinTruthQA comprises 6,000 real-world financial Q&A entries, each manually annotated based on four key evaluation criteria: question identification, question relevance, answer readability, and answer relevance
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unclearRelation between the paper passage and the cited Recognition theorem.
Experiments show that existing models achieve strong performance on question identification and question relevance (F1 > 95%), but remain substantially weaker on answer readability (~88%) and especially answer relevance (~80%)
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