OSDG -- Open-Source Approach to Classify Text Data by UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Abstract: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) bring together the diverse development community and provide a clear set of development targets for 2030. Given a large number of actors and initiatives related to these goals, there is a need to have a way to accurately and reliably assign text to different input: scientific research, research projects, technological output or documents to specific SDGs. In this paper we present Open Source SDG (OSDG) project and tool which does so by integrating existing research and previous classification into a robust and coherent framework. This integration is based on linking the features from the variety of previous approaches, like ontology items, keywords or features from machine-learning models, to the topics in Microsoft Academic Graph.