Applying AI for social good: Aligning academic journal ratings with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

@article{Steingard2022ApplyingAF,  title={Applying AI for social good: Aligning academic journal ratings with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)},  author={David Steingard and Marcello Balduccini and Akanksha Sinha},  journal={AI \& SOCIETY},  year={2022},  volume={38},  pages={613-629},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:249352350}}
It is hypothesize and demonstrate that SDGIIM is capable of producing evaluations aligned with experts’ expectations of SDG impact intensity; the consistent analysis and rating of textual data sets that embody the SDGs with varying degrees of meaning and, ultimately, promote positive impact on the actual material conditions of the world.

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