Text Regression — Predicting Numbers from Text

Text-based regression predicts a continuous target variable using features extracted from text — TF-IDF scores, embeddings, or n-grams — as the independent variables. Building on the text-as-data programme consolidated by Gentzkow, Kelly and Taddy (2019), it lets a numeric outcome such as a price, a rating, or a sentiment score be estimated directly from documents, and is widely used in social-science, economics, and finance applications.