Automated Evidence Extraction and Scoring for Corporate Climate Policy Engagement: A Multilingual RAG Approach

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Autores principales: Kolli, Imene, Vaghefi, Ario Saeid, Senni, Chiara Colesanti, Raj, Shantam, Leippold, Markus
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author Kolli, Imene
Vaghefi, Ario Saeid
Senni, Chiara Colesanti
Raj, Shantam
Leippold, Markus
author_facet Kolli, Imene
Vaghefi, Ario Saeid
Senni, Chiara Colesanti
Raj, Shantam
Leippold, Markus
contents InfluenceMap's LobbyMap Platform monitors the climate policy engagement of over 500 companies and 250 industry associations, assessing each entity's support or opposition to science-based policy pathways for achieving the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. Although InfluenceMap has made progress with automating key elements of the analytical workflow, a significant portion of the assessment remains manual, making it time- and labor-intensive and susceptible to human error. We propose an AI-assisted framework to accelerate the monitoring of corporate climate policy engagement by leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation to automate the most time-intensive extraction of relevant evidence from large-scale textual data. Our evaluation shows that a combination of layout-aware parsing, the Nomic embedding model, and few-shot prompting strategies yields the best performance in extracting and classifying evidence from multilingual corporate documents. We conclude that while the automated RAG system effectively accelerates evidence extraction, the nuanced nature of the analysis necessitates a human-in-the-loop approach where the technology augments, rather than replaces, expert judgment to ensure accuracy.
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spellingShingle Automated Evidence Extraction and Scoring for Corporate Climate Policy Engagement: A Multilingual RAG Approach
Kolli, Imene
Vaghefi, Ario Saeid
Senni, Chiara Colesanti
Raj, Shantam
Leippold, Markus
Computation and Language
InfluenceMap's LobbyMap Platform monitors the climate policy engagement of over 500 companies and 250 industry associations, assessing each entity's support or opposition to science-based policy pathways for achieving the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. Although InfluenceMap has made progress with automating key elements of the analytical workflow, a significant portion of the assessment remains manual, making it time- and labor-intensive and susceptible to human error. We propose an AI-assisted framework to accelerate the monitoring of corporate climate policy engagement by leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation to automate the most time-intensive extraction of relevant evidence from large-scale textual data. Our evaluation shows that a combination of layout-aware parsing, the Nomic embedding model, and few-shot prompting strategies yields the best performance in extracting and classifying evidence from multilingual corporate documents. We conclude that while the automated RAG system effectively accelerates evidence extraction, the nuanced nature of the analysis necessitates a human-in-the-loop approach where the technology augments, rather than replaces, expert judgment to ensure accuracy.
title Automated Evidence Extraction and Scoring for Corporate Climate Policy Engagement: A Multilingual RAG Approach
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08907