24th Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies
Abstract Submission

71. Measuring Sustainability Disclosure Quality with AI-Assisted Semantic Analysis: A Study of Taiwanese Technology Firms

Invited abstract in session Operations Research and the Common Good (special edition), stream OR and Ethics, and Societal Perspectives.

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. QIYAO HONG
Department of Accounting, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (TAIWAN)

Abstract

This study proposes an AI-based approach to measure sustainability disclosure quality in corporate reports. Unlike dictionary-based methods, which rely on word frequency and may overlook contextual meaning, this study uses a multilingual zero-shot semantic classification model for sentence-level analysis. It classifies report content into concrete action statements and generic statements, and constructs a disclosure quality score based on their proportion. Evidence from Taiwanese technology firms suggests that higher external ESG ratings may be associated with higher disclosure quality scores.

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Status: accepted


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