Best Paper Αward for Athena RC at BeyondFacts '26
6th International Workshop on Computational Methods for Online Discourse Analysis
06-07-2026
Researchers from the Information Management Systems Institute (IMSI) and the ARCHIMEDES Research Unit of Athena Research Center presented their collaborative work with the University of Ioannina, on the 2026 ACM Web Conference and the co-located BeyondFacts '26 Workshop that took place as virtual events (June 29-July 3, 2026).
Their work, titled "EmeraldApp: An AI-Driven Tool for Detecting Greenwashing in Sustainability Claims", co-authored by Georgios Kaoukis, Ioannis Aris Koufopoulos, Eleni Psaroudaki, Danae Pla Karidi, Evaggelia Pitoura, George Papastefanatos, and Panayiotis Tsaparas, received the Best Paper Award at the 6th International Workshop on Computational Methods for Online Discourse Analysis (BeyondFacts '26).
The paper presents EmeraldApp, an AI-powered tool for the automatic detection of greenwashing practices in corporate sustainability claims. The tool combines retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with a specialised ESG knowledge graph, delivering evidence-based decisions and explanations grounded in corporate ESG reports (read the full paper).
The team also presented the paper titled "EmeraldMind: A Knowledge Graph - Augmented Framework for Greenwashing Detection" at the Special Track on Web4Good of The Web Conference 2026 (read the full paper).
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