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sustain.AI: a Recommender System to analyze Sustainability Reports

15 May 2023arXiv:2305.08711archive 2025-07-28

Lars Hillebrand, Maren Pielka, David Leonhard, Tobias Deußer, Tim Dilmaghani, Bernd Kliem, Rüdiger Loitz, Milad Morad, Christian Temath, Thiago Bell, Robin Stenzel, Rafet Sifa

We present sustainAI, 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, sustainAI is publicly available for everyone at https://sustain.ki.nrw/.

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