Finch Computing Launches Environmental Social Governance Classifier

Published On: March 2, 2022

Reston, VA – Finch Computing, a leading provider of real-time natural language processing technology to federal government and private sector customers, today announced that it has developed and launched a new Environmental and Social Governance classifier as part of its innovative Data-as-a-Service offering, Finch DaaS.

“Increasingly, we know our customers are interested in quickly and accurately surfacing content on key environmental and corporate social governance topics,” Finch Computing Chief Technology Officer Scott Lightner said. “This classifier enables them to do that on massive volumes of text – whether that’s from content they have in-house or streaming, real-time content sources like news.”

Finch Data as a Service (DaaS) is a real-time, enriched feed of user-curated content based on keywords, entities and more. Leveraging Finch Computing’s natural language processing (NLP) expertise and our proprietary approach to identifying and understanding entities in huge volumes of streaming or static unstructured text, the Finch DaaS suite of products helps government agencies, companies and organizations make better use of their informational assets – starting the moment they acquire them.

Part of the Finch DaaS suite of projects, Finch DaaS Topic-Based Feeds offers users the ability to leverage our AI/ML models to quickly and accurate surface content about a certain topic – even if the topic name itself is not mentioned.

On the individual topic of Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG), an emerging topic of importance for businesses and organizations across industries, Finch DaaS can deliver a feed of content only on this topic. Additionally, it can classify the content into several sub-categories, such as:

Affordability and Access
Air Quality
Business Model Health
Climate Change
Community Relations
Competitive Behaviors
Customer Data Privacy
Customer Wellness
Data & Information Security
Ecological Impacts
Employee Engagement
Diversity & Inclusion
Energy Management
Ethics
GHG Emissions
Human Rights
Incident Risk Management
Labeling and Selling
Labor Practices
Legal & Regulatory Frameworks
Removing Directors
Product Design & Lifecycle
Product Quality & Safety
Supply Chain Risk Management
Systemic Risk Management
Waste Management
Water & Wastewater Management
Workforce Health & Safety

“This ESG classifier is one of many we have developed in response to customer demands,” Lightner continued. “Others include cryptocurrency, anti-money laundering, know your customer (KYC), cyber security, and mergers and acquisitions. We will continue to research and develop other classifiers in line with our customers’ evolving needs.”

To learn more about Finch Computing, including about its data products and the ESG classifier, please visit: finchai.com.

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