seesus: a social, environmental, and economic sustainability classifier for Python

Abstract

seesus is an open-source Python package that evaluates whether a textual expression aligns with the concept of sustainability as defined by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It labels a statement with the 17 SDGs as well as 169 specific targets and categorizes the statement into social, environmental, or economic sustainability. Compared to existing SDG classification software in Python, seesus is the only one that is tuned to a finer scale -the SDG target level -and offers transparency and controllability, allowing users to examine and customize the syntax of text classification according to their needs.