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most citedDesign of Negative Sampling Strategies for Distantly Supervised Skill Extraction

6 citations · 21 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CL2026

Overview of the TalentCLEF 2026: Skill and Job Title Intelligence for Human Capital Management

Luis Gasco, Hermenegildo Fabregat, Laura García-Sardiña +8

This paper presents an overview of the second edition of the TalentCLEF challenge, organized as a Lab at the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2026. TalentCLEF is…

cs.CL2026

WorkRB: A Community-Driven Evaluation Framework for AI in the Work Domain

Matthias De Lange, Warre Veys, Federico Retyk +16

Today's evolving labor markets rely increasingly on recommender systems for hiring, talent management, and workforce analytics, with natural language processing (NLP) capabilities…

cs.CL2025

Unified Work Embeddings: Contrastive Learning of a Bidirectional Multi-task Ranker

Matthias De Lange, Jens-Joris Decorte, Jeroen Van Hautte

Applications in labor market intelligence demand specialized NLP systems for a wide range of tasks, characterized by extreme multi-label target spaces, strict latency constraints,…

cs.CL2025

Multilingual JobBERT for Cross-Lingual Job Title Matching

Jens-Joris Decorte, Matthias De Lange, Jeroen Van Hautte

We introduce JobBERT-V3, a contrastive learning-based model for cross-lingual job title matching. Building on the state-of-the-art monolingual JobBERT-V2, our approach extends supp…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Efficient Text Encoders for Labor Market Analysis

Jens-Joris Decorte, Jeroen Van Hautte, Chris Develder +1

Labor market analysis relies on extracting insights from job advertisements, which provide valuable yet unstructured information on job titles and corresponding skill requirements.…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

ChocoLlama: Lessons Learned From Teaching Llamas Dutch

Matthieu Meeus, Anthony Rathé, François Remy +3

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in natural language understanding and generation, their performance often lags in lower-resource, non-English…

cs.IR2024

On the Biased Assessment of Expert Finding Systems

Jens-Joris Decorte, Jeroen Van Hautte, Chris Develder +1

In large organisations, identifying experts on a given topic is crucial in leveraging the internal knowledge spread across teams and departments. So-called enterprise expert retrie…

cs.CL2024

SkillMatch: Evaluating Self-supervised Learning of Skill Relatedness

Jens-Joris Decorte, Jeroen Van Hautte, Thomas Demeester +1

Accurately modeling the relationships between skills is a crucial part of human resources processes such as recruitment and employee development. Yet, no benchmarks exist to evalua…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

Career Path Prediction using Resume Representation Learning and Skill-based Matching

Jens-Joris Decorte, Jeroen Van Hautte, Johannes Deleu +2

The impact of person-job fit on job satisfaction and performance is widely acknowledged, which highlights the importance of providing workers with next steps at the right time in t…

cs.CL2023★ 5 cited

Extreme Multi-Label Skill Extraction Training using Large Language Models

Jens-Joris Decorte, Severine Verlinden, Jeroen Van Hautte +3

Online job ads serve as a valuable source of information for skill requirements, playing a crucial role in labor market analysis and e-recruitment processes. Since such ads are typ…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Is it Required? Ranking the Skills Required for a Job-Title

Sarthak Anand, Jens-Joris Decorte, Niels Lowie

In this paper, we describe our method for ranking the skills required for a given job title. Our analysis shows that important/relevant skills appear more frequently in similar job…

cs.CL2022★ 6 cited

Design of Negative Sampling Strategies for Distantly Supervised Skill Extraction

Jens-Joris Decorte, Jeroen Van Hautte, Johannes Deleu +2

Skills play a central role in the job market and many human resources (HR) processes. In the wake of other digital experiences, today's online job market has candidates expecting t…

cs.CL2021★ 3 cited

JobBERT: Understanding Job Titles through Skills

Jens-Joris Decorte, Jeroen Van Hautte, Thomas Demeester +1

Job titles form a cornerstone of today's human resources (HR) processes. Within online recruitment, they allow candidates to understand the contents of a vacancy at a glance, while…