arXiv:2501.15720cs.CL2025-01被引 7

构建4.4万条三元组知识库,提升企业可持续性文本分析的准确与可操作性。

ESGSenticNet: A Neurosymbolic Knowledge Base for Corporate Sustainability Analysis

  • 融合神经符号框架与GPT-4o,自动抽取可持续性概念关系
  • 在相关性和行动导向上分别领先基线26%和31%
  • 无需训练,适合非技术用户快速部署

评估企业可持续性表现对推动可持续商业模式至关重要,但受制于可持续性披露数据的复杂性与体量,尤其是现有NLP工具的分析效能。本文指出三大挑战:不可见性、复杂性与主观性,加剧了从披露文本中提取洞察的难度。为此,我们提出ESGSenticNet——一个公开可用的企业可持续性分析知识库。该知识库基于神经符号框架构建,整合专业概念解析、GPT-4o推理与半监督标签传播,并配备层级分类体系,形成包含44,000个知识三元组的结构化数据库,例如(‘碳排放减半’,支持,‘排放控制’)。实验表明,作为词汇方法使用时,ESGSenticNet比现有最优基线更有效捕捉可持续性披露中的相关且可操作信息。其覆盖的独立ESG主题词数量更高,在主题相关性与行动导向性上分别提升26%与31%。此外,该方法无需训练,具有显著的简易性优势,便于非技术利益相关者应用。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Evaluating corporate sustainability performance is essential to drive sustainable business practices, amid the need for a more sustainable economy. However, this is hindered by the complexity and volume of corporate sustainability data (i.e. sustainability disclosures), not least by the effectiveness of the NLP tools used to analyse them. To this end, we identify three primary challenges - immateriality, complexity, and subjectivity, that exacerbate the difficulty of extracting insights from sustainability disclosures. To address these issues, we introduce ESGSenticNet, a publicly available knowledge base for sustainability analysis. ESGSenticNet is constructed from a neurosymbolic framework that integrates specialised concept parsing, GPT-4o inference, and semi-supervised label propagation, together with a hierarchical taxonomy. This approach culminates in a structured knowledge base of 44k knowledge triplets - ('halve carbon emission', supports, 'emissions control'), for effective sustainability analysis. Experiments indicate that ESGSenticNet, when deployed as a lexical method, more effectively captures relevant and actionable sustainability information from sustainability disclosures compared to state of the art baselines. Besides capturing a high number of unique ESG topic terms, ESGSenticNet outperforms baselines on the ESG relatedness and ESG action orientation of these terms by 26% and 31% respectively. These metrics describe the extent to which topic terms are related to ESG, and depict an action toward ESG. Moreover, when deployed as a lexical method, ESGSenticNet does not require any training, possessing a key advantage in its simplicity for non-technical stakeholders.

可持续性分析知识图谱神经符号ESG

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