ESGSenticNet: A Neurosymbolic Knowledge Base for Corporate Sustainability Analysis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15720v1
• Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 01:21:12 GMT
• Title: ESGSenticNet: A Neurosymbolic Knowledge Base for Corporate Sustainability Analysis
• Authors: Keane Ong, Rui Mao, Frank Xing, Ranjan Satapathy, Johan Sulaeman, Erik Cambria, Gianmarco Mengaldo,
• Abstract summary: We introduce ESGSenticNet, a knowledge base for sustainability analysis.<n> ESGSenticNet is constructed from a neurosymbolic framework that integrates specialised concept parsing, GPT-4o inference, and semi-supervised label propagation.<n> Experiments indicate that ESGSenticNet, when deployed as a lexical method, more effectively captures relevant and actionable sustainability information.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: 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.

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