1st Call for Participation: SustainEval 2025 - Understanding Sustainability 
Reports

We invite system and paper submissions for SustainEval 2025, a GermEval Shared 
Task co-located with KONVENS 2025 in Hildesheim, Germany, in September 2025.

With this shared task, we aim to fuel research on automatic analysis and 
detection of greenwashing by challenging participants to build systems that 
categorize excerpts from German sustainability reports for (A) content class 
and (B) statement verifiability rating.

Background:
While corporate sustainability reporting aims to increase transparency, there 
is also a high incentive for companies to present themselves as environmentally 
friendly as possible, e.g. by selectively reporting only actions benefitting 
the environment and society, or by using vague optimistic language. This 
increasing tendency, known as "greenwashing" not only makes it difficult to 
tell apart concrete, verifiable actions from high-level plans and plain 
publicity, but can even blur the boundaries of the content reported in a given 
text passage according to a certain reporting criterion (e.g. actual greenhouse 
gas emissions vs. general tasks of some branch of the company).
 
Call for Workshop Papers:
We also invite submission of original papers about analyzing sustainability 
texts with NLP and other aspects of sustainability and NLP. Papers should 
describe original, unpublished work and can be technical contributions of 
empirical or theoretical nature, literature surveys or opinion pieces. More 
details on paper format and submission will be published soon in a separate 
call for papers.


Important Dates

All submission deadlines are 11:59 p.m. UTC-12:00 "anywhere on Earth."Training 
& Development Data Release:14th March 2025Registration Deadline / Start 
Evaluation Phase:10th June 2025Workshop Paper Submission Deadline 
(tentative):10th June 2025System/Results Submission Deadline:27th June 
2025System Description Paper Submission Deadline:11th July 2025System papers 
will be reviewed within 10 days after the submission deadlineCamera-ready 
Deadline:15th Aug 2025Workshop & Final Presentation: 10th Sept 2025


For more information, submission formats, and trial data please refer to the 
shared task homepage:

https://sustaineval.github.io/

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at 
[email protected].


Best regards and happy holidays,
The Shared Task Organizers

Jakob Prange, Universität Augsburg (contact for task-specific questions): 
[email protected]
Charlott Jakob, TU Berlin (contact for organisational questions): 
[email protected]
Annemarie Friedrich, Universität Augsburg 


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Dr. Jakob Prange (er/he) 
Akademischer Rat auf Zeit / Research Associate 
Chair for Natural Language Understanding & Digital Humanities (Prof. Friedrich) 
Faculty for Applied Informatics, University of Augsburg 
https://jakpra.github.io/
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