CLMay 24, 2025

Climate-Eval: A Comprehensive Benchmark for NLP Tasks Related to Climate Change

arXiv:2505.18653v13 citationsh-index: 12Has CodeProceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing Meets Climate Change (ClimateNLP 2025)
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This provides a standardized evaluation suite for assessing LLMs on climate-related NLP tasks, which is incremental as it builds on existing datasets.

The authors introduced Climate-Eval, a benchmark for evaluating NLP models on climate change tasks, aggregating existing and new datasets into 25 tasks, and conducted evaluations on open-source LLMs from 2B to 70B parameters in zero-shot and few-shot settings.

Climate-Eval is a comprehensive benchmark designed to evaluate natural language processing models across a broad range of tasks related to climate change. Climate-Eval aggregates existing datasets along with a newly developed news classification dataset, created specifically for this release. This results in a benchmark of 25 tasks based on 13 datasets, covering key aspects of climate discourse, including text classification, question answering, and information extraction. Our benchmark provides a standardized evaluation suite for systematically assessing the performance of large language models (LLMs) on these tasks. Additionally, we conduct an extensive evaluation of open-source LLMs (ranging from 2B to 70B parameters) in both zero-shot and few-shot settings, analyzing their strengths and limitations in the domain of climate change.

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