Arik is responsible for the development of Sustainalytics’ smart technologies – artificial intelligence, machine learning, information retrieval & extraction, and data-intensive digital curation. His professional and academic background is rooted in communications and information systems.
Arik Brutian
Head of Digital Innovation at Sustainalytics
All Sessions by Arik Brutian
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NDR June 8 2021
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17:20
What Texts Whisper: Information retrieval and Prediction from Corporate Documents to Performance
17:20 - 18:00The main challenge in the knowledge industry is to identify relevant data hidden within layers of noise and to build meaningful inferences – assessments, ratings, opinions – based on this data. In the ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) research and ratings industry, this challenge is especially salient these days, as companies worldwide want to show to their stakeholders that company ESG performance is concordant with increasing stakeholder expectations. We will show how a leader in the ESG industry Sustainalytics, a Morningstar company, has built a unique combination of document embedding and fast similarity detection to identify relevant corporate disclosure and to build automated inferential procedures to texts to the reality these texts describe.