Seyed Alireza Mousavian Anaraki
2026
Unsupervised GRI-TCFD Alignment with LLM-Assisted Validation for Climate Disclosure and Greenwashing Risk Analysis
Seyed Alireza Mousavian Anaraki | Danilo Croce | Roberta Costa | Luigi Tiburzi | Armando Calabrese | Roberto Basili
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Ecology, Environment, and Natural Language Processing
Seyed Alireza Mousavian Anaraki | Danilo Croce | Roberta Costa | Luigi Tiburzi | Armando Calabrese | Roberto Basili
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Ecology, Environment, and Natural Language Processing
Climate-related corporate disclosures play a central role in sustainable finance and regulatory supervision, but remain difficult to analyze due to their length, unstructured format, and strategic language. While existing NLP approaches have been applied to ESG scoring and greenwashing detection, most operate at the document level and lack explicit alignment with formal reporting standards. We propose a scalable paragraph-level framework for aligning sustainability disclosures with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) indicators and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) pillars. Our approach combines weak supervision, climate-focused GRI-TCFD mapping, embedding-based semantic similarity, and LLM validation for climate detection. In parallel, we introduce a paragraph-level greenwashing proxy based on commitment intensity, claim specificity, and sentiment polarity. This proxy complements regulatory alignment by capturing linguistic signals associated with potentially symbolic climate communication. The resulting augmented dataset is used to fine-tune ClimateBERT models in both single-task and multi-task settings. Experimental results show that weakly supervised dataset augmentation improves robustness and generalization compared to purely manual training, with further gains in the multi-task configuration. By integrating regulatory semantics, domain-adapted language models, and scalable annotation strategies, this study advances standard-aligned climate disclosure analysis and provides tools directly relevant to climate-related financial risk assessment.
2025
Unsupervised Sustainability Report Labeling based on the integration of the GRI and SDG standards
Seyed Alireza Mousavian Anaraki | Danilo Croce | Roberto Basili
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact (NLP4PI)
Seyed Alireza Mousavian Anaraki | Danilo Croce | Roberto Basili
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact (NLP4PI)
Sustainability reports are key instruments for communicating corporate impact, but their unstructured format and varied content pose challenges for large-scale analysis. This paper presents an unsupervised method to annotate paragraphs from sustainability reports against both the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) standards. The approach combines structured metadata from GRI content indexes, official GRI–SDG mappings, and text semantic similarity models to produce weakly supervised annotations at scale. To evaluate the quality of these annotations, we train a multi-label classifier on the automatically labeled data and evaluate it on the trusted OSDG Community Dataset. The results show that our method yields meaningful labels and improves classification performance when combined with human-annotated data. Although preliminary, this work offers a foundation for scalable sustainability analysis and opens future directions toward assessing the credibility and depth of corporate sustainability claims.