no code implementations • 16 Feb 2024 • Jingwei Ni, Minjing Shi, Dominik Stammbach, Mrinmaya Sachan, Elliott Ash, Markus Leippold
With the rise of generative AI, automated fact-checking methods to combat misinformation are becoming more and more important.
no code implementations • 13 Feb 2024 • Tobias Schimanski, Jingwei Ni, Mathias Kraus, Elliott Ash, Markus Leippold
One avenue in reaching this goal is basing the answers on reliable sources.
no code implementations • 23 Jan 2024 • Markus Leippold, Saeid Ashraf Vaghefi, Dominik Stammbach, Veruska Muccione, Julia Bingler, Jingwei Ni, Chiara Colesanti-Senni, Tobias Wekhof, Tobias Schimanski, Glen Gostlow, Tingyu Yu, Juerg Luterbacher, Christian Huggel
This paper presents Climinator, a novel AI-based tool designed to automate the fact-checking of climate change claims.
no code implementations • 28 Dec 2023 • Tobias Schimanski, Chiara Colesanti Senni, Glen Gostlow, Jingwei Ni, Tingyu Yu, Markus Leippold
Our approach is the first to respond to calls to assess corporate nature communication on a large scale.
no code implementations • 12 Oct 2023 • Tobias Schimanski, Julia Bingler, Camilla Hyslop, Mathias Kraus, Markus Leippold
Public and private actors struggle to assess the vast amounts of information about sustainability commitments made by various institutions.
no code implementations • 4 Oct 2023 • Jannis Bulian, Mike S. Schäfer, Afra Amini, Heidi Lam, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Ben Gaiarin, Michelle Chen Huebscher, Christian Buck, Niels Mede, Markus Leippold, Nadine Strauss
We evaluate several recent LLMs and conduct a comprehensive analysis of the results, shedding light on both the potential and the limitations of LLMs in the realm of climate communication.
1 code implementation • 28 Jul 2023 • Jingwei Ni, Julia Bingler, Chiara Colesanti-Senni, Mathias Kraus, Glen Gostlow, Tobias Schimanski, Dominik Stammbach, Saeid Ashraf Vaghefi, Qian Wang, Nicolas Webersinke, Tobias Wekhof, Tingyu Yu, Markus Leippold
In the face of climate change, are companies really taking substantial steps toward more sustainable operations?
no code implementations • 27 Jun 2023 • Jingwei Ni, Julia Bingler, Chiara Colesanti-Senni, Mathias Kraus, Glen Gostlow, Tobias Schimanski, Dominik Stammbach, Saeid Ashraf Vaghefi, Qian Wang, Nicolas Webersinke, Tobias Wekhof, Tingyu Yu, Markus Leippold
This paper introduces a novel approach to enhance Large Language Models (LLMs) with expert knowledge to automate the analysis of corporate sustainability reports by benchmarking them against the Task Force for Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations.
2 code implementations • 23 May 2023 • Jingwei Ni, Zhijing Jin, Qian Wang, Mrinmaya Sachan, Markus Leippold
Due to the task difficulty and data scarcity in the Financial NLP domain, we explore when aggregating such diverse skills from multiple datasets with MTL can work.
no code implementations • 11 Apr 2023 • Saeid Ashraf Vaghefi, Qian Wang, Veruska Muccione, Jingwei Ni, Mathias Kraus, Julia Bingler, Tobias Schimanski, Chiara Colesanti-Senni, Nicolas Webersinke, Christrian Huggel, Markus Leippold
The answers and their sources were evaluated by our team of IPCC authors, who used their expert knowledge to score the accuracy of the answers from 1 (very-low) to 5 (very-high).
no code implementations • 31 Mar 2023 • Mathias Kraus, Julia Anna Bingler, Markus Leippold, Tobias Schimanski, Chiara Colesanti Senni, Dominik Stammbach, Saeid Ashraf Vaghefi, Nicolas Webersinke
Large language models (LLMs) have significantly transformed the landscape of artificial intelligence by demonstrating their ability in generating human-like text across diverse topics.
1 code implementation • 1 Sep 2022 • Dominik Stammbach, Nicolas Webersinke, Julia Anna Bingler, Mathias Kraus, Markus Leippold
To transition to a green economy, environmental claims made by companies must be reliable, comparable, and verifiable.
1 code implementation • 10 May 2022 • Daniel Hershcovich, Nicolas Webersinke, Mathias Kraus, Julia Anna Bingler, Markus Leippold
We argue that this deficiency is one of the reasons why very few publications in NLP report key figures that would allow a more thorough examination of environmental impact.
1 code implementation • 22 Oct 2021 • Nicolas Webersinke, Mathias Kraus, Julia Anna Bingler, Markus Leippold
Over the recent years, large pretrained language models (LM) have revolutionized the field of natural language processing (NLP).
no code implementations • 1 Dec 2020 • Francesco S. Varini, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Markus Leippold
Climate change communication in the mass media and other textual sources may affect and shape public perception.
no code implementations • 1 Dec 2020 • Thomas Diggelmann, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Jannis Bulian, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Markus Leippold
We introduce CLIMATE-FEVER, a new publicly available dataset for verification of climate change-related claims.
1 code implementation • EMNLP (WNUT) 2020 • Rahul Mishra, Dhruv Gupta, Markus Leippold
SUMO further generates an extractive summary by presenting a diversified set of sentences from the documents that explain its decision on the correctness of the textual claim.
no code implementations • 7 Oct 2020 • Rahul Mishra, Piyush Yadav, Remi Calizzano, Markus Leippold
On the other hand, more recent works that use headline guided attention to learn a headline derived contextual representation of the news body also result in convoluting overall representation due to the news body's lengthiness.