[AISWorld] CFP: FinSIM4-ESG Shared Task on Learning Semantic Similarities for the Financial Domain, extended to ESG Insights

[FinSim Task]

Hello!

We would like to invite you to submit to *FinSIM4-ESG*, the 4th shared task
on Learning Semantic Similarities for the Financial Domain, *extended to
ESG insights*, held in conjunction with  *IJCAI-ECAI-2022*, Messe Wien,
Vienna, Austria 23th -25th July, 2022 as part of the *FinNLP-2022 workshop*.


   - Shared Task URL:
   https://sites.google.com/nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/finnlp-2022/shared-task-finsim4-esg
   - Workshop URL:
   https://sites.google.com/nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/finnlp-2022/home
   - Registration Form: https://forms.gle/PY2fgmZWxKwFh2Zj9


The new edition of FinSIM4-ESG proposes two sub-tasks:

   - *Sub-task 1.* We have created an in-house sustainable finance taxonomy
   called "Fortia *ESG taxonomy*". It is based on different financial data
   provider's taxonomies as well as several sustainability and annual reports
   where we looked for ESG related criteria. Given a subset of "Fortia ESG
   taxonomy" (your trainset), participants will be asked to enrich this
   training set to cover the rest of the terms of the original "Fortia ESG
   taxonomy". For this purpose, participants will be given a set of annual
   reports and sustainability reports of financial companies from which they
   can develop a model allowing to induce semantically related terms to the
   concepts defined in the training set. For example, given a set of terms
   related to the concept Waste management (e.g. Hazardous Waste, Waste
   Reduction Initiatives), you need to find the missing ones by the way that
   you predict a corresponding concept to unlabeled terms.


   - *Sub-task 2.* Participants will be asked to design a system which can
   automatically classify sentences into sustainable or unsustainable
   sentences making use of the enriched taxonomy if helpful. For this purpose,
   participants will be given a list of carefully selected* labeled
   sentences from the sustainability reports and other documents*. In this
   shared task, we consider a sentence as sustainable if a sentence
   semantically mentions the Environmental or Social or Governance related
   factors as defined in our ESG taxonomy.

Performance will be measured according to the accuracy with which label is
assigned, and according to recall (based on the total number of
predictions).

This year, we propose a subset of our in-house made ESG taxonomy and a
dataset composed of financial and non-financial reportings. And we are
interested in systems which make use of contextual word embeddings such as
BERT (Devlin et al. 2018), as well as systems which make use of resources
related to the ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) and
sustainability including EU taxonomy.


*Important Dates*

   - April 04, 2022: First announcement of the shared task and beginning of
   registration
   - April 20, 2022 : Second announcement of the shared task

   - April 20, 2022 : Release of training set & scoring scripts.
   - May 20, 2022: Release of test set.
   - May 26, 2022: System's outputs submission deadline.
   - May 30, 2022: Release of results.
   - May 30, 2022: Shared task title and abstract due
   - June 06, 2022: Shared task paper submissions due
   - June 17, 2022: Registration deadline.
   - June 17, 2022: Camera-ready version of shared task paper due
   - July 23-25, 2022: FinNLP-2022 workshop @IJCAI-ECAI-2022


A USD$1000 prize will be rewarded to the best-performing teams.

*Contact*

For any questions on the shared task, please contact us on
fin.sim.task at gmail.com.

*Shared Task Co-organizers - Fortia Financial Solutions*

Juyeon KANG <juyeon.kang at fortia.fr>

Mehdi Kchouk <mehdi.kchouk at fortia.fr>

Sandra Bellato <sandra.bellato at fortia.fr>

Mei Gan <mei.gan at fortia.fr>

Ismail EL MAAROUF <ismail at imprevicible.com>