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Final Ecosystem Goods and Services (FEGS) Document Reader R Code
Citation:
Yee, S. AND R. Ennis. Final Ecosystem Goods and Services (FEGS) Document Reader R Code. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, 2025.
Impact/Purpose:
The FEGS Document Reader can provide a preliminary assessment of priority ecosystem services, which can serve as a starting point for more efficient or targeted stakeholder engagement to refine that prioritization. For user applications where there may be barriers to stakeholder engagement (e.g., low participation rates, large distances between decisionmakers and stakeholders, short timeline) or a preliminary assessment is adequate (e.g., leveraging past engagement to characterize research priorities), the output of the FEGS Document Reader may meet user needs without further engagement. Additionally, for users who may be interested in more investigative analysis, such as spatial or temporal differences in ecosystem services preferences, the FEGS Document Reader can facilitate a consistent comparison across documents using a highly structured set of keywords. Availability of the R code in a GitHub repository is primarily for expert users who a) may wish to download and run the app (offline) on their own computer, b) want to see the detailed keyword list file and possibly modify or adapt it for their own uses, or c) may wish to adapt or modify the R code for their own uses.
Description:
This is the R code repository (https://github.com/USEPA/FEGS_Document_Reader) meant to accompany the Final Ecosystem Goods and Services (FEGS) Document Reader, which is available as an R Shiny Application at: https://shiny.epa.gov/FEGS_Document_Reader The FEGS Document Reader is a deep learning technology designed to accelerate the process of identifying and prioritizing ecosystem services when existing information, in the form of written documents, is available. The FEGS Document Reader classifies the relative frequency of ecosystem services terms in documents uploaded by the user, and provides an assessment of: i) the relative importance of different ecosystems mentioned in documents; ii) the types of users, or beneficiaries, who use or care about those ecosystems; and iii) the most relevant ecosystem services attributes important to those users.
