Marta Santacroce
2026
CLARIESG: An End-to-End System for ESG Analysis over Complex Tables in Corporate Reports
Marta Santacroce | Michele Luca Contalbo | Sara Pederzoli | Riccardo Benassi | Venturelli Valeria | Matteo Paganelli | Francesco Guerra
Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations)
Marta Santacroce | Michele Luca Contalbo | Sara Pederzoli | Riccardo Benassi | Venturelli Valeria | Matteo Paganelli | Francesco Guerra
Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations)
Sustainability reports contain rich Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) information, but their heterogeneous layouts and complex multi-table structures pose major challenges for LLMs, especially for unit normalization, cross-document reasoning, and precise numerical computation. We present CLARIESG, an end-to-end system that couples robust table extraction with a structured prompting framework for multi-table filtering, normalization, and program-of-thought reasoning. On ESG-focused multi-table benchmarks, CLARIESG consistently outperforms standard prompting and provides transparent, auditable reasoning, supporting more reliable ESG analysis and greenwashing detection in real-world settings.