Biodiversity Network Coffee (and talk) mornings

13th March:  Klara Kaleb – Natural Language Processing for Nature-based Solutions

Accessing high-quality evidence for nature-based solutions (NbS) is challenging due to the vast, fragmented scientific literature. Manual systematic reviews are slow and resource-intensive, often leading to suboptimal environmental decisions. Advances in transformer-based Natural Language Processing (NLP) offer new opportunities to automate evidence synthesis and improve decision-making. My research explores how large language models (LLMs) and information retrieval can extract, synthesize, and structure knowledge from the growing NbS literature. A key focus is determining how much of this process can be robustly automated while ensuring reliability and interpretability, as well as ecological and ethical alignment. In this talk, I will outline our approach and highlight recent progress.