Structuring Sustainability Reports for Environmental Standards with LLMs guided by Ontology

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Structuring Sustainability Reports for Environmental Standards with LLMs guided by Ontology. / Usmanova, Aida; Usbeck, Ricardo.
ClimateNLP 2024 - 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing Meets Climate Change, Proceedings of the Workshop. ed. / Dominik Stammbach; Jingwei Ni; Tobias Schimanski; Kalyan Dutia; Alok Singh; Julia Bingler; Christophe Christiaen; Neetu Kushwaha; Veruska Muccione; Saeid A. Vaghefi; Markus Leippold. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2024. p. 168-177 (ClimateNLP 2024 - 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing Meets Climate Change, Proceedings of the Workshop).

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Harvard

Usmanova, A & Usbeck, R 2024, Structuring Sustainability Reports for Environmental Standards with LLMs guided by Ontology. in D Stammbach, J Ni, T Schimanski, K Dutia, A Singh, J Bingler, C Christiaen, N Kushwaha, V Muccione, SA Vaghefi & M Leippold (eds), ClimateNLP 2024 - 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing Meets Climate Change, Proceedings of the Workshop. ClimateNLP 2024 - 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing Meets Climate Change, Proceedings of the Workshop, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 168-177, 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing Meets Climate Change - ClimateNLP 2024, Bangkok, Thailand, 16.08.24. <https://aclanthology.org/2024.climatenlp-1.13/>

APA

Usmanova, A., & Usbeck, R. (2024). Structuring Sustainability Reports for Environmental Standards with LLMs guided by Ontology. In D. Stammbach, J. Ni, T. Schimanski, K. Dutia, A. Singh, J. Bingler, C. Christiaen, N. Kushwaha, V. Muccione, S. A. Vaghefi, & M. Leippold (Eds.), ClimateNLP 2024 - 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing Meets Climate Change, Proceedings of the Workshop (pp. 168-177). (ClimateNLP 2024 - 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing Meets Climate Change, Proceedings of the Workshop). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://aclanthology.org/2024.climatenlp-1.13/

Vancouver

Usmanova A, Usbeck R. Structuring Sustainability Reports for Environmental Standards with LLMs guided by Ontology. In Stammbach D, Ni J, Schimanski T, Dutia K, Singh A, Bingler J, Christiaen C, Kushwaha N, Muccione V, Vaghefi SA, Leippold M, editors, ClimateNLP 2024 - 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing Meets Climate Change, Proceedings of the Workshop. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2024. p. 168-177. (ClimateNLP 2024 - 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing Meets Climate Change, Proceedings of the Workshop).

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