EnClaim: A Style Augmented Transformer Architecture for Environmental Claim Detection
Keywords: Climate Crisis, Sustainability, Greenwashing, Environmental Claims, Linguistic Style, Transformer, Classification, Large Language Models
TL;DR: Detecting environmental claims from open web
Abstract: Across countries, a noteworthy paradigm shift towards a more sustainable and environmentally responsible economy is underway. However, this positive transition is accompanied by an upsurge in greenwashing, where companies make exaggerated claims about their environmental commitments. To address this challenge and protect consumers, initiatives have emerged to substantiate green claims. With the proliferation of environmental and scientific assertions, a critical need arises for automated methods to detect and validate these claims at scale. In this paper, we introduce EnClaim, a transformer network architecture augmented with stylistic features for automatically detecting claims from open web documents or social media posts. The proposed model considers various linguistic stylistic features in conjunction with language models to predict whether a given statement constitutes a claim. We have rigorously evaluated the model using multiple open datasets. Our initial findings indicate that incorporating stylistic vectors alongside the BERT-based language model enhances the overall effectiveness of environmental claim detection.
Archival Submission: arxival
Arxival Submission: arxival
Submission Number: 13
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