@inproceedings{tian-chen-2024-esg,
    title = "{ESG}-{GPT}:{GPT}4-Based Few-Shot Prompt Learning for Multi-lingual {ESG} News Text Classification",
    author = "Tian, Ke  and
      Chen, Hua",
    editor = "Chen, Chung-Chi  and
      Liu, Xiaomo  and
      Hahn, Udo  and
      Nourbakhsh, Armineh  and
      Ma, Zhiqiang  and
      Smiley, Charese  and
      Hoste, Veronique  and
      Das, Sanjiv Ranjan  and
      Li, Manling  and
      Ghassemi, Mohammad  and
      Huang, Hen-Hsen  and
      Takamura, Hiroya  and
      Chen, Hsin-Hsi",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Joint Workshop of the 7th Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing, the 5th Knowledge Discovery from Unstructured Data in Financial Services, and the 4th Workshop on Economics and Natural Language Processing",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.finnlp-1.31",
    pages = "279--282",
    abstract = "Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors for company assessment have gained great attention from finance investors to identify companies{'} risks and growth opportunities. ESG Text data regarding the company like sustainable reports, media news text, and social media text are important data sources for ESG analysis like ESG factors classification. Recently, FinNLP has proposed several ESG-related tasks. One of the tasks is Multi-Lingual ESG Issue Identification 3(ML-ESG-3) which is to determine the duration or impact level of the impact of an event in the news article regarding the company. In this paper, we mainly discussed our team: KaKa{'}s solution to this ML-ESG-3 task. We proposed the GPT4 model based on few-shot prompt learning to predict the impact level or duration of the impact of multi-lingual ESG news for the company. The experiment result demonstrates that GPT4-based few-shot prompt learning achieved good performance in leaderboard quantitative evaluations of ML-ESG-3 tasks across different languages.",
}

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors for company assessment have gained great attention from finance investors to identify companies{'} risks and growth opportunities. ESG Text data regarding the company like sustainable reports, media news text, and social media text are important data sources for ESG analysis like ESG factors classification. Recently, FinNLP has proposed several ESG-related tasks. One of the tasks is Multi-Lingual ESG Issue Identification 3(ML-ESG-3) which is to determine the duration or impact level of the impact of an event in the news article regarding the company. In this paper, we mainly discussed our team: KaKa{'}s solution to this ML-ESG-3 task. We proposed the GPT4 model based on few-shot prompt learning to predict the impact level or duration of the impact of multi-lingual ESG news for the company. The experiment result demonstrates that GPT4-based few-shot prompt learning achieved good performance in leaderboard quantitative evaluations of ML-ESG-3 tasks across different languages.
Tian, Ke Chen, Hua
ESG-GPT:GPT4-Based Few-Shot Prompt Learning for Multi-lingual ESG News Text Classification