We introduce the novel task of detecting sustainability initiatives in company reports. Given a full report, the aim is to automatically identify mentions of practical activities that a company has performed in order to tackle specific societal issues. As a single initiative can often be described over multiples sentences, new methods for identifying continuous sentence spans needs to be developed. We release a new dataset of company reports in which the text has been manually annotated with sustainability initiatives. We also evaluate different models for initiative detection, introducing a novel aggregation and evaluation methodology. Our proposed architecture uses sequences of five consecutive sentences to account for contextual information when making classification decisions at the individual sentence level.

翻译：我们引入了在公司报告中发现可持续性举措的新任务。根据一份完整的报告,目的是自动确定公司为解决具体社会问题而开展的实际活动。作为一个单一的举措,通常可以描述为多个句子,因此需要制定确定持续刑期的新方法。我们发布了公司报告的新数据集,其中对案文进行了人工附加说明,并提出了可持续性举措。我们还评估了不同的倡议发现模式,采用了新的汇总和评价方法。我们提议的架构在作出个人刑期分类决定时,采用连续五个句子的顺序来说明背景信息。