@inproceedings{garigliotti-2024-sdg,
    title = "{SDG} target detection in environmental reports using Retrieval-augmented Generation with {LLM}s",
    author = "Garigliotti, Dario",
    editor = "Stammbach, Dominik  and
      Ni, Jingwei  and
      Schimanski, Tobias  and
      Dutia, Kalyan  and
      Singh, Alok  and
      Bingler, Julia  and
      Christiaen, Christophe  and
      Kushwaha, Neetu  and
      Muccione, Veruska  and
      A. Vaghefi, Saeid  and
      Leippold, Markus",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing Meets Climate Change (ClimateNLP 2024)",
    month = aug,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Bangkok, Thailand",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2024.climatenlp-1.19/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.climatenlp-1.19",
    pages = "241--250",
    abstract = "With the consolidation of Large Language Models (LLM) as a dominant component in approaches for multiple linguistic tasks, the interest in these technologies has greatly increased within a variety of areas and domains. A particular scenario of information needs where to exploit these approaches is climate-aware NLP. Paradigmatically, the vast manual labour of inspecting long, heterogeneous documents to find environment-relevant expressions and claims suits well within a recently established Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG) framework. In this paper, we tackle two dual problems within environment analysis dealing with the common goal of detecting a Sustainable Developmental Goal (SDG) target being addressed in a textual passage of an environmental assessment report.We develop relevant test collections, and propose and evaluate a series of methods within the general RAG pipeline, in order to assess the current capabilities of LLMs for the tasks of SDG target evidence identification and SDG target detection."
}