Mapping Work Task Descriptions from German Job Ads on the O*NET Work Activities Ontology (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | a new method for mapping job tasks to labor market ontologies is proposed . a top configuration of the method achieved a notable performance improvement . |
| Approach: | They use ontological data with Multiple Negatives Ranking loss to extract job tasks from job postings . they integrate labeled job advertisement data into training to improve their mapping . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on the German job ads and their ontology . it can be used to map job tasks to established labor market ontologies or taxonomies . |
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