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Environmental, Social and Governance Sentiment Analysis on Slovene News: A Novel Dataset and Models

Paula Dodig, Boshko Koloski, Katarina Sitar Šuštar, Senja Pollak, Matthew Purver · Apr 8, 2026 · Citations: 0

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Evidence quality

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Abstract

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations are increasingly integral to assessing corporate performance, reputation, and long-term sustainability. Yet, reliable ESG ratings remain limited for smaller companies and emerging markets. We introduce the first publicly available Slovene ESG sentiment dataset and a suite of models for automatic ESG sentiment detection. The dataset, derived from the MaCoCu Slovene news collection, combines large language model (LLM)-assisted filtering with human annotation of company-related ESG content. We evaluate the performance of monolingual (SloBERTa) and multilingual (XLM-R) models, embedding-based classifiers (TabPFN), hierarchical ensemble architectures, and large language models. Results show that LLMs achieve the strongest performance on Environmental (Gemma3-27B, F1-macro: 0.61) and Social aspects (gpt-oss 20B, F1-macro: 0.45), while fine-tuned SloBERTa is the best model on Governance classification (F1-macro: 0.54). We then show in a small case study how the best-preforming classifier (gpt-oss) can be applied to investigate ESG aspects for selected companies across a long time frame.

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  • The available metadata is too thin to trust this as a primary source.

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Main weakness

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Trust level

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Usefulness score

0/100 • Low

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Human Feedback Signal

Not explicit in abstract metadata

Evaluation Signal

Detected

Usefulness for eval research

Adjacent candidate

Extraction confidence 35%

What We Could Verify

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Human Feedback Types

missing

None explicit

No explicit feedback protocol extracted.

"Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations are increasingly integral to assessing corporate performance, reputation, and long-term sustainability."

Evaluation Modes

partial

Automatic Metrics

Includes extracted eval setup.

"Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations are increasingly integral to assessing corporate performance, reputation, and long-term sustainability."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations are increasingly integral to assessing corporate performance, reputation, and long-term sustainability."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations are increasingly integral to assessing corporate performance, reputation, and long-term sustainability."

Reported Metrics

partial

F1, F1 macro

Useful for evaluation criteria comparison.

"Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations are increasingly integral to assessing corporate performance, reputation, and long-term sustainability."

Human Feedback Details

  • Uses human feedback: No
  • Feedback types: None
  • Rater population: Not reported
  • Expertise required: Multilingual

Evaluation Details

  • Evaluation modes: Automatic Metrics
  • Agentic eval: None
  • Quality controls: Not reported
  • Evidence quality: Low
  • Use this page as: Background context only

Protocol And Measurement Signals

Benchmarks / Datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported Metrics

f1f1 macro

Research Brief

Metadata summary

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations are increasingly integral to assessing corporate performance, reputation, and long-term sustainability.

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Key Takeaways

  • Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations are increasingly integral to assessing corporate performance, reputation, and long-term sustainability.
  • Yet, reliable ESG ratings remain limited for smaller companies and emerging markets.
  • We introduce the first publicly available Slovene ESG sentiment dataset and a suite of models for automatic ESG sentiment detection.

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Research Summary

Contribution Summary

  • We introduce the first publicly available Slovene ESG sentiment dataset and a suite of models for automatic ESG sentiment detection.
  • The dataset, derived from the MaCoCu Slovene news collection, combines large language model (LLM)-assisted filtering with human annotation of company-related ESG content.
  • We evaluate the performance of monolingual (SloBERTa) and multilingual (XLM-R) models, embedding-based classifiers (TabPFN), hierarchical ensemble architectures, and large language models.

Why It Matters For Eval

  • The dataset, derived from the MaCoCu Slovene news collection, combines large language model (LLM)-assisted filtering with human annotation of company-related ESG content.

Researcher Checklist

  • Gap: Human feedback protocol is explicit

    No explicit human feedback protocol detected.

  • Pass: Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Automatic Metrics

  • Gap: Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Gap: Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Pass: Metric reporting is present

    Detected: f1, f1 macro

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