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Describe IPCC confidence scale

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  Each statement is labeled with the corresponding IPCC report source, the page number in the report PDF, and the corresponding confidence level (, along with their associated confidence levels (`low`, `medium`, `high`, or `very high`) as assessed by IPCC climate scientists based on available evidence and agreement among their peers.
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  ## Dataset Construction
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  To construct the dataset, we retrieved the complete raw text from each of the three IPCC report PDFs that are available online using an open-source library [pypdf2](https://pypi.org/project/PyPDF2/). We then normalized the whitespace, tokenized the text into sentences using [NLTK](https://www.nltk.org/) , and used regex search to filter for complete sentences including a parenthetical confidence label at the end of the statement, of the form _sentence (low|medium|high|very high confidence)_. The final ICCS dataset contains 8094 labeled sentences.
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  ## Code Download
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- The code to reproduce dataset collection and our LLM benchmarking experiments is avalaible on [GitHub](https://github.com/rlacombe/Climate-LLMs).
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  ## Paper
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  Each statement is labeled with the corresponding IPCC report source, the page number in the report PDF, and the corresponding confidence level (, along with their associated confidence levels (`low`, `medium`, `high`, or `very high`) as assessed by IPCC climate scientists based on available evidence and agreement among their peers.
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+ ## IPCC confidence assessment scale
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+ ![](ipcc-scales.png)
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+ Source: [IPCC AR6 Working Group I report](https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/)
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  ## Dataset Construction
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  To construct the dataset, we retrieved the complete raw text from each of the three IPCC report PDFs that are available online using an open-source library [pypdf2](https://pypi.org/project/PyPDF2/). We then normalized the whitespace, tokenized the text into sentences using [NLTK](https://www.nltk.org/) , and used regex search to filter for complete sentences including a parenthetical confidence label at the end of the statement, of the form _sentence (low|medium|high|very high confidence)_. The final ICCS dataset contains 8094 labeled sentences.
 
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  ## Code Download
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+ The code to reproduce dataset collection and our LLM benchmarking experiments is [released on GitHub](https://github.com/rlacombe/Climate-LLMs).
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  ## Paper
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