Entity Linking in the Job Market Domain

Mike Zhang, Rob Goot, Barbara Plank


Abstract
In Natural Language Processing, entity linking (EL) has centered around Wikipedia, but yet remains underexplored for the job market domain. Disambiguating skill mentions can help us get insight into the current labor market demands. In this work, we are the first to explore EL in this domain, specifically targeting the linkage of occupational skills to the ESCO taxonomy (le Vrang et al., 2014). Previous efforts linked coarse-grained (full) sentences to a corresponding ESCO skill. In this work, we link more fine-grained span-level mentions of skills. We tune two high-performing neural EL models, a bi-encoder (Wu et al., 2020) and an autoregressive model (Cao et al., 2021), on a synthetically generated mention–skill pair dataset and evaluate them on a human-annotated skill-linking benchmark. Our findings reveal that both models are capable of linking implicit mentions of skills to their correct taxonomy counterparts. Empirically, BLINK outperforms GENRE in strict evaluation, but GENRE performs better in loose evaluation (accuracy@k).
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2024.findings-eacl.28
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2024
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March
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2024
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St. Julian’s, Malta
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Yvette Graham, Matthew Purver
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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410–419
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Mike Zhang, Rob Goot, and Barbara Plank. 2024. Entity Linking in the Job Market Domain. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2024, pages 410–419, St. Julian’s, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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