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ESG Tendencies from News - Investigated by AI Trained by Human Intelligence

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  • Li, Chao
  • Keeley, Alexander Ryota
  • Takeda, Shutaro
  • Seki, Daikichi
  • Managi, Shunsuke

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We create a large language model with high accuracy to investigate the relatedness between 12 environmental, social, and governance (ESG) topics and more than 2 million news reports. The text match pre-trained transformer (TMPT) with 138,843,049 parameters is built to probe whether and how much a news record is connected to a specific topic of interest. The TMPT, based on the transformer structure and a pre-trained model, is an artificial intelligence model trained by more than 200,000 academic papers. The cross-validation result reveals that the TMPT’s accuracy is 85.73%, which is excellent in zero-shot learning tasks. In addition, combined with sentiment analysis, our research monitors news attitudes and tones towards specific ESG topics daily from September 2021 to September 2023. The results indicate that the media is increasing discussion on social topics, while the news regarding environmental issues is reduced. Moreover, towards almost all topics, the attitudes are gradually becoming positive. Our research highlights the temporal shifts in public perception regarding 12 key ESG issues: ESG has been incrementally accepted by the public. These insights are invaluable for policymakers, corporate leaders, and communities as they navigate sustainable decision-making.

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  • Li, Chao & Keeley, Alexander Ryota & Takeda, Shutaro & Seki, Daikichi & Managi, Shunsuke, 2024. "ESG Tendencies from News - Investigated by AI Trained by Human Intelligence," MPRA Paper 122757, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    ESG; News; Natural Language Processing; Pre-trained Transformer; Data Mining; Machine Learning;
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    • G0 - Financial Economics - - General
    • H0 - Public Economics - - General
    • M1 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration

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