README.md

---
language: en
license: apache-2.0
datasets:
- ESGBERT/governance_2k
tags:
- ESG
- governance
---

# Model Card for GovRoBERTa-governance

## Model Description

Based on [this paper](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4622514), this is the GovRoBERTa-governance language model. A language model that is trained to better classify governance texts in the ESG domain.

*Note: We generally recommend choosing the [GovernanceBERT-governance](https://huggingface.co/ESGBERT/GovernanceBERT-governance) model since it is quicker, less resource-intensive and only marginally worse in performance.*

Using the [GovRoBERTa-base](https://huggingface.co/ESGBERT/GovRoBERTa-base) model as a starting point, the GovRoBERTa-governance Language Model is additionally fine-trained on a 2k governance dataset to detect governance text samples.

## How to Get Started With the Model
You can use the model with a pipeline for text classification:

```python
from transformers import AutoModelForSequenceClassification, AutoTokenizer, pipeline
 
tokenizer_name = "ESGBERT/GovRoBERTa-governance"
model_name = "ESGBERT/GovRoBERTa-governance"
 
model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(model_name)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(tokenizer_name, max_len=512)
 
pipe = pipeline("text-classification", model=model, tokenizer=tokenizer) # set device=0 to use GPU
 
# See https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main_classes/pipelines#transformers.pipeline
print(pipe("An ethical code has been issued to all Group employees."))
```

## More details can be found in the paper

```bibtex
@article{Schimanski23ESGBERT,
    title={{Bridiging the Gap in ESG Measurement: Using NLP to Quantify Environmental, Social, and Governance Communication}},
    author={Tobias Schimanski and Andrin Reding and Nico Reding and Julia Bingler and Mathias Kraus and Markus Leippold},
    year={2023},
    journal={Available on SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4622514},
}
```