LEAF: Predicting the Environmental Impact of Food Products based on their Name

Bas Krahmer


Abstract
Although food consumption represents a sub- stantial global source of greenhouse gas emis- sions, assessing the environmental impact of off-the-shelf products remains challenging. Currently, this information is often unavailable, hindering informed consumer decisions when grocery shopping. The present work introduces a new set of models called LEAF, which stands for Linguistic Environmental Analysis of Food Products. LEAF models predict the life-cycle environmental impact of food products based on their name. It is shown that LEAF models can accurately predict the environmental im- pact based on just the product name in a multi- lingual setting, greatly outperforming zero-shot classification methods. Models of varying sizes and capabilities are released, along with the code and dataset to fully reproduce the study.
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2024.climatenlp-1.10
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Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing Meets Climate Change (ClimateNLP 2024)
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August
Year:
2024
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Dominik Stammbach, Jingwei Ni, Tobias Schimanski, Kalyan Dutia, Alok Singh, Julia Bingler, Christophe Christiaen, Neetu Kushwaha, Veruska Muccione, Saeid A. Vaghefi, Markus Leippold
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ClimateNLP | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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133–142
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.climatenlp-1.10
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.climatenlp-1.10
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Bas Krahmer. 2024. LEAF: Predicting the Environmental Impact of Food Products based on their Name. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing Meets Climate Change (ClimateNLP 2024), pages 133–142, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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