Benchmarking Embedding Models for ESG Data

2026-09-14

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本文构建了一个针对ESG领域的基准数据集，评估了14种嵌入模型在检索和检索增强生成任务中的表现，以解决ESG文本处理的有效性问题。

Abstract

The use of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) data is fundamental for modern corporate accountability, sustainability reporting, and financial decision-making. Embedding models have emerged as a powerful approach for transforming unstructured ESG text into numerical representations suitable for downstream natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, their effectiveness in these ESG-specific tasks has not been systematically studied. In this paper, we construct a benchmark dataset specifically tailored to the ESG domain. We benchmark fourteen models, both open-source and closed-source embedding models, comparing their performance with respect to retrieval, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). The results demonstrate performance variations across different models, with Qwen3-based models achieving the highest overall performance. This study provides practical insights into which models are better suited for ESG RAG tasks.

Problem

• ESG data
• embedding models
• natural language processing
• benchmarking

Innovation

• Benchmarking
• ESG Data
• Embedding Models
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Qwen3