sustain.AI: a Recommender System to analyze Sustainability

We present sustain.AI, an intelligent, context-aware recommender system that assists auditors and financial investors as well as the general public to efficiently analyze companies’ sustainability reports. The tool leverages an end-to-end trainable architecture that couples a BERT-based encoding module with a multi-label classification head to match relevant text passages from sustainability reports to their respective law regulations from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards. We evaluate our model on two novel German sustainability reporting data sets and consistently achieve a significantly higher recommendation performance compared to multiple strong baselines. Furthermore, sustain.AI is publicly available for everyone at https://sustain.ki.nrw/.

  • Published in:
    ICAIL '23: Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
  • Type:
    Inproceedings
  • Authors:
    Hillebrand, Lars; Pielka, Maren; Leonhard, David; Deußer, Tobias; Dilmaghani, Tim; Kliem, Bernd; Loitz, Rüdiger; Morad, Milad; Temath, Christian; Bell, Thiago; Stenzel, Robin; Sifa, Rafet
  • Year:
    2023
  • Source:
    https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3594536.3595131

Citation information

Hillebrand, Lars; Pielka, Maren; Leonhard, David; Deußer, Tobias; Dilmaghani, Tim; Kliem, Bernd; Loitz, Rüdiger; Morad, Milad; Temath, Christian; Bell, Thiago; Stenzel, Robin; Sifa, Rafet: sustain.AI: a Recommender System to analyze Sustainability, ICAIL '23: Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, 2023, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3594536.3595131, Hillebrand.etal.2023a,

Associated Lamarr Researchers

lamarr institute person Pielka Maren - Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Maren Pielka

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lamarr institut team temath christian - Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Dr. Christian Temath

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lamarr institute person Stenzel Robin Marc - Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Robin Stenzel

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Prof. Dr. Rafet Sifa

Prof. Dr. Rafet Sifa

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