Powering Effective Climate Communication with a Climate Knowledge Base

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.11351v1
• Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 17:02:06 GMT
• Title: Powering Effective Climate Communication with a Climate Knowledge Base
• Authors: Kameron B. Rodrigues, Shweta Khushu, Mukut Mukherjee, Andrew Banister, Anthony Hevia, Sampath Duddu, Nikita Bhutani
• Abstract summary: We aim to build a system that presents to any individual the climate information predicted to best motivate and inspire them to take action given their unique set of personal values. The system relies on a knowledge base (ClimateKB) of causes and effects of climate change, and their associations to personal values. We plan to open source the ClimateKB and associated code to encourage future research and applications.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: While many accept climate change and its growing impacts, few converse about it well, limiting the adoption speed of societal changes necessary to address it. In order to make effective climate communication easier, we aim to build a system that presents to any individual the climate information predicted to best motivate and inspire them to take action given their unique set of personal values. To alleviate the cold-start problem, the system relies on a knowledge base (ClimateKB) of causes and effects of climate change, and their associations to personal values. Since no such comprehensive ClimateKB exists, we revisit knowledge base construction techniques and build a ClimateKB from free text. We plan to open source the ClimateKB and associated code to encourage future research and applications.

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