Sedrick Keh
Non-governmental organizations for environmental conservation have a significant interest in monitoring conservation-related media and getting timely updates about infrastructure construction projects as they may cause massive impact to key conservation areas. Such monitoring, however, is difficult and time-consuming. We introduce NewsPanda, a toolkit which automatically detects and analyzes online articles related to environmental conservation and infrastructure construction. We fine-tune a BERT-based mode
A screenshot of the NewsPanda articles visualized on WWF's dashboard
A screenshot to the RIIAM Impact Analysis Tool of WWF. Red markers correspond to locations of articles flagged by NewsPanda as relevant to conservation and/or infrastructure.
Sedrick Keh