Efficient Text Encoders for Labor Market Analysis

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Autores principales: Decorte, Jens-Joris, Van Hautte, Jeroen, Develder, Chris, Demeester, Thomas
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Publicado: 2025
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author Decorte, Jens-Joris
Van Hautte, Jeroen
Develder, Chris
Demeester, Thomas
author_facet Decorte, Jens-Joris
Van Hautte, Jeroen
Develder, Chris
Demeester, Thomas
contents Labor market analysis relies on extracting insights from job advertisements, which provide valuable yet unstructured information on job titles and corresponding skill requirements. While state-of-the-art methods for skill extraction achieve strong performance, they depend on large language models (LLMs), which are computationally expensive and slow. In this paper, we propose \textbf{ConTeXT-match}, a novel contrastive learning approach with token-level attention that is well-suited for the extreme multi-label classification task of skill classification. \textbf{ConTeXT-match} significantly improves skill extraction efficiency and performance, achieving state-of-the-art results with a lightweight bi-encoder model. To support robust evaluation, we introduce \textbf{Skill-XL}, a new benchmark with exhaustive, sentence-level skill annotations that explicitly address the redundancy in the large label space. Finally, we present \textbf{JobBERT V2}, an improved job title normalization model that leverages extracted skills to produce high-quality job title representations. Experiments demonstrate that our models are efficient, accurate, and scalable, making them ideal for large-scale, real-time labor market analysis.
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spellingShingle Efficient Text Encoders for Labor Market Analysis
Decorte, Jens-Joris
Van Hautte, Jeroen
Develder, Chris
Demeester, Thomas
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Labor market analysis relies on extracting insights from job advertisements, which provide valuable yet unstructured information on job titles and corresponding skill requirements. While state-of-the-art methods for skill extraction achieve strong performance, they depend on large language models (LLMs), which are computationally expensive and slow. In this paper, we propose \textbf{ConTeXT-match}, a novel contrastive learning approach with token-level attention that is well-suited for the extreme multi-label classification task of skill classification. \textbf{ConTeXT-match} significantly improves skill extraction efficiency and performance, achieving state-of-the-art results with a lightweight bi-encoder model. To support robust evaluation, we introduce \textbf{Skill-XL}, a new benchmark with exhaustive, sentence-level skill annotations that explicitly address the redundancy in the large label space. Finally, we present \textbf{JobBERT V2}, an improved job title normalization model that leverages extracted skills to produce high-quality job title representations. Experiments demonstrate that our models are efficient, accurate, and scalable, making them ideal for large-scale, real-time labor market analysis.
title Efficient Text Encoders for Labor Market Analysis
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24640