# Analyzing Regional Impacts of Climate Change using Natural Language Processing Techniques

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06817 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.06817/

## Key facts

- Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 9 of its 31 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 11 Jan 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 9 of 9)

- [BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.04805/) (2018)
- [UMAP: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection for Dimension Reduction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.03426/) (2018)
- [BERTopic: Neural topic modeling with a class-based TF-IDF procedure](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.05794/) (2022)
- [BooookScore: A systematic exploration of book-length summarization in the era of LLMs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.00785/) (2023)
- [SummIt: Iterative Text Summarization via ChatGPT](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.14835/) (2023)
- [Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT): A sentiment analysis odyssey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.01127/) (2020)
- [ClimateNLP: Analyzing Public Sentiment Towards Climate Change Using Natural Language Processing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.08099/) (2023)
- [Analyzing the impact of climate change on critical infrastructure from the scientific literature: A weakly supervised NLP approach](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.01887/) (2023)
- [GeoTextTagger: High-Precision Location Tagging of Textual Documents using a Natural Language Processing Approach](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1601.05893/) (2016)

## Built on by (most cited first, 5 of 5)

- [WildfireGPT: Tailored Large Language Model for Wildfire Analysis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.07877/) (2024)
- [A RAG-Based Multi-Agent LLM System for Natural Hazard Resilience and Adaptation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.17200/) (2025)
- [ClimateChat: Designing Data and Methods for Instruction Tuning LLMs to Answer Climate Change Queries](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.13796/) (2025)
- [Dhoroni: Exploring Bengali Climate Change and Environmental Views with a Multi-Perspective News Dataset and Natural Language Processing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.17225/) (2024)
- [WeatherArchive-Bench: Benchmarking Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning for Historical Weather Archives](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.05336/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Understanding the multifaceted effects of climate change across diverse geographic locations is crucial for timely adaptation and the development of effective mitigation strategies. As the volume of scientific literature on this topic continues to grow exponentially, manually reviewing these documents has become an immensely challenging task. Utilizing Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to analyze this wealth of information presents an efficient and scalable solution. By gathering extensive amounts of peer-reviewed articles and studies, we can extract and process critical information about the effects of climate change in specific regions. We employ BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) for Named Entity Recognition (NER), which enables us to efficiently identify specific geographies within the climate literature. This, in turn, facilitates location-specific analyses. We conduct region-specific climate trend analyses to pinpoint the predominant themes or concerns related to climate change within a particular area, trace the temporal progression of these identified issues, and evaluate their frequency, severity, and potential development over time. These in-depth examinations of location-specific climate data enable the creation of more customized policy-making, adaptation, and mitigation strategies, addressing each region's unique challenges and providing more effective solutions rooted in data-driven insights. This approach, founded on a thorough exploration of scientific texts, offers actionable insights to a wide range of stakeholders, from policymakers to engineers to environmentalists. By proactively understanding these impacts, societies are better positioned to prepare, allocate resources wisely, and design tailored strategies to cope with future climate conditions, ensuring a more resilient future for all.