Analysis of Climate Reports

Introduction

This is the summary of the projects semanticClimate is doing.

This will give the idea about how to start with any climate report published in pdf that is not machine readable and also not in semantic form.

Wikimedia Enhanced Dictionary

Selecting/Choosing a chapter of IPCC report

Extracting Keywords from the Chapter

Creating Wikimedia enhanced dictionary from the wordlist

Here are the steps to create dictionary from the words.

pip install amilib

amilib DICT --words list_of_words.txt --description wikipedia --dict output_dict.html --figures --operation create

This will create dictionary in html enriched with information from Wikipedia with figures related to the term.

Colab notebook for creating dictionary

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In the Colab notebook, the wordlist in txt file is uploaded from the local system and then the dictionary is created from code mentioned in the code cell of the note book. All the steps were given in the Colab notebook for easy usage of the tool amilib

Climate Report Annotated with Dictionary

The different chapters from the IPCC contains many words that are difficult to understand while reading the report. So, the dictionary has been created for those words that are enriched with Wikipedia information alongwith the figures. This dictionary has been used to annotate chapters. Annotated report makes it easily understandable to any group of the people.

The steps has been demonstrated in the colab notebook.

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