Multilingual Skill Extraction for Job Vacancy–Job Seeker Matching in Knowledge Graphs

Hamit Kavas, Marc Serra-Vidal, Leo Wanner


Abstract
In the modern labor market, accurate matching of job vacancies with suitable candidate CVs is critical. We present a novel multilingual knowledge graph-based framework designed to enhance the matching by accurately extracting the skills requested by a job and provided by a job seeker in a multilingual setting and aligning them via the standardized skill labels of the European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations (ESCO) taxonomy. The proposed framework employs a combination of state-of-the-art techniques to extract relevant skills from job postings and candidate experiences. These extracted skills are then filtered and mapped to the ESCO taxonomy and integrated into a multilingual knowledge graph that incorporates hierarchical relationships and cross-linguistic variations through embeddings. Our experiments demonstrate a significant improvement of the matching quality compared to the state of the art.
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2025.genaik-1.15
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (GenAIK)
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January
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2025
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Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Genet Asefa Gesese, Harald Sack, Heiko Paulheim, Albert Merono-Penuela, Lihu Chen
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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146–155
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Hamit Kavas, Marc Serra-Vidal, and Leo Wanner. 2025. Multilingual Skill Extraction for Job Vacancy–Job Seeker Matching in Knowledge Graphs. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (GenAIK), pages 146–155, Abu Dhabi, UAE. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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