Presentation of the Sustainable Development Goal Radar within RTVE. Learn more: https://tech.ebu.ch/events/sustainability2022

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SDG Radar-Sustainability Summit 2022
Sustainable Development Goals Radar
SUSTAINABILITY SUMMIT 2022
April 2022
Pere Vila & Jose María Alvarez-Rodríguez | Director of Innovation / Associate Professor UC3M | pere.vila@rtve.es / josemaria.alvarez@uc3m.es
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Corporate Social Responsibility
RTVE is Spain's largest state-owned public media company.
Benchmark of quality
Technological commitment
A space for everyone
Transparency
Source: https://www.rtve.es/corporacion/rc/ods/
Context: RTVE Corporate Social Responsibility
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• Information as a mean to
raise awareness of the
2030 Agenda
• Communication plan
with mechanisms to
follow up the
understanding and
relevance of the SGDs
Context: national strategy
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Challenges
Be able to reuse the information (texts) used in the different
TV programs (mainly news)
Gather information
Process texts (transcriptions) and properly group news
Classify texts in two SDGs: 5 and 13
Analyze and classify texts
Provide tools to the SDG team within RTVE to perform more
detailed analysis of the coverage to SDGS
Reusable, scalable, extensible & sustainable
Reuse and build new services
Creation of two initial knowledge bases for:
-Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
-Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Reuse and model the knowledge about SDGs
Create an user-oriented dashboard.
Provide meaningful visualizations to monitor the coverage of the selected SGDs.
Quantify and visualize
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Technical
approach
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Technical approach: knowledge base
Taxonomy
Semantic relationships
between concepts
Controlled vocabulary
Domain terminology for each selected SDG
Patterns
Expected patterns to
match within the text
Inference
Rules to measure the matching of patterns and
generate new knowledge (facts)
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Technical approach: knowledge base integration & extension
12 top level categories
1.115 terms in SDG-5
Terminology and structure
461 terms in SDG-13
9 top level categories
European Institute for Gender
Equality (EIGE) / INE / COE
https://eige.europa.eu/thesaurus/
overview
European Climate Change Programme/ AEMET
https://ec.europa.eu/clima/index_en
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Technical approach: classification process
Input
Transcription
Syntax to Semantics
Ontologies
Concepts &
relationships
Knowledge Graph
SRT Texts
Patterns
Classification &
quantification
SDG-5
SDG-13
No SDG
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Technical approach: example
femicide victim Employment Ethics Civil society
Vocabulary
Femicide
Domestic
violence
Gender-based
violence
Gender-based
violence
Women
Patterns
CO2 NO2
Emission
Reasoning Pattern is matched
Architecture -
Conceptual model
Formalization “The violence against women and girls in
armed conflict…”
If
shall The at
of Lower
gender
Rape culture Victim
* <<Gender-based violence>>
Gender Roles &
relations
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Technical approach: making the development sustainable
Development
Sustainability
Tree
Reuse of existing:
-Datasets (knowledge & effort)
-Software libraries & infrastructure
Reuse
NLP for
Spanish
Reuse
technology
Extensibility
&
Other datasets
Cloud
infrastructure
Reuse
SDG 5
ontology
Reuse
SDG 13
ontology
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Results: dashboard
Women’s day
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Results: some numbers
Regions
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>98% precision (human validation)
SDG-13
3.77h
520 hours analyzed
Programs
(news)
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Time (months)
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SDG-5
23.79 h
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Impact
Validation
Value
Coverage
Technique
Service to help SDGs analysts to cover more
content and to have more meaningful analysis.
AI to the service of human beings.
Natural language processing and classifiers
(using ontologies to avoid the problem of
unsupervised learning).
The classification has been validated by
humans ensuring the quality of results.
The dashboard is configurable
depending on the needs of the analysts.
Two SDGs (5 & 13) but the system is
completely reusable and configurable
with new SDGs.
Language: Spanish (but can be easily
adapted to other languages, working
with concepts).
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Conclusions and future steps
Unleash the power of technology
AI-based solutions are powerful to help users but
they require configuration, customization and
ensure the quality of results (trustworthy AI)
Raise awareness of the SDGs
RTVE is now able to have a tool to cover how the
channel covers two SDGs. Analysts can provide a
better picture and recommend actions.
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Carmen Cernuda (RTVE)
Faci Peñate (RTVE)
Rosa Garrido (RTVE)
Lucía Martín (RTVE)
Noemí Marroyo (RTVE)
Eduardo Cibrián (UC3M)
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Acknowledgements