构建细粒度数据集,对抗可持续报告中的绿色洗白风险
Towards Robust ESG Analysis Against Greenwashing Risks: Aspect-Action Analysis with Cross-Category Generalization
- 将可持续性议题与具体行动关联,提升分析透明度
- 支持跨行业泛化,增强模型在不同报告风格下的鲁棒性
- 揭示主流模型在绿色洗白场景下的局限,指引未来方向
可持续报告是评估企业环境、社会和治理(ESG)表现的关键依据,但其内容正日益被绿色洗白所掩盖——即误导性、夸大甚至虚构的可持续性声明。现有NLP方法在ESG分析中缺乏对绿色洗白风险的鲁棒性,常提取出反映夸张或误导性声明的结论,而非客观的ESG绩效。为弥合这一差距,我们提出A3CG(Aspect-Action Analysis with Cross-Category Generalization),一个新型数据集,旨在提升绿色洗白盛行背景下的ESG分析稳健性。通过显式关联可持续性议题与其相关行动,A3CG实现更细粒度、透明的可持续性声明评估,确保分析结果基于可验证行为而非模糊或误导性表述。此外,A3CG强调跨类别泛化能力,确保模型在企业报告策略变化、选择性突出特定领域时仍具稳健性能。我们在A3CG上对前沿监督模型和大语言模型进行实验,揭示其局限性,并提出未来研究的关键方向。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Sustainability reports are key for evaluating companies' environmental, social and governance, ESG performance, but their content is increasingly obscured by greenwashing - sustainability claims that are misleading, exaggerated, and fabricated. Yet, existing NLP approaches for ESG analysis lack robustness against greenwashing risks, often extracting insights that reflect misleading or exaggerated sustainability claims rather than objective ESG performance. To bridge this gap, we introduce A3CG - Aspect-Action Analysis with Cross-Category Generalization, as a novel dataset to improve the robustness of ESG analysis amid the prevalence of greenwashing. By explicitly linking sustainability aspects with their associated actions, A3CG facilitates a more fine-grained and transparent evaluation of sustainability claims, ensuring that insights are grounded in verifiable actions rather than vague or misleading rhetoric. Additionally, A3CG emphasizes cross-category generalization. This ensures robust model performance in aspect-action analysis even when companies change their reports to selectively favor certain sustainability areas. Through experiments on A3CG, we analyze state-of-the-art supervised models and LLMs, uncovering their limitations and outlining key directions for future research.
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