Publications
The CLEF 2026 CEUR proceedings are not published yet: the links to the working notes and the per-task overview papers below will be added as soon as they are available. The general overview paper is in production with Springer (LNCS vol. 17087); its page numbers and DOI will be added once the volume appears.
Overview paper
Please, cite:
Gasco, L., Fabregat, H., García-Sardiña, L., Estrella, P., Veys, W., Carrino, C. P., De Lange, M., Deniz, D., Rodrigo, A., Decorte, J. J., & Zbib, R. (2026, September). Overview of the TalentCLEF 2026: Skill and Job Title Intelligence for Human Capital Management. In Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 17087. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. [View preprint on arXiv]
@inproceedings{gasco2026overview,
title={{Overview of the TalentCLEF 2026: Skill and Job Title Intelligence for Human Capital Management}},
author={Gasco, Luis and Fabregat, Hermenegildo and Garc\'{\i}a-Sardi{\~n}a, Laura and Estrella, Paula and Veys, Warre and Carrino, Casimiro Pio and De Lange, Matthias and Deniz, Daniel and Rodrigo, \'{A}lvaro and Decorte, Jens-Joris and Zbib, Rabih},
booktitle={{Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction}},
series={{Lecture Notes in Computer Science}},
volume={17087},
publisher={{Springer Nature Switzerland}},
address={{Cham}},
year={2026},
}
Task Overview papers
Task A overview paper
Please, cite:
Hermenegildo Fabregat, Laura García-Sardiña, Paula Estrella, Luis Gasco, Casimiro Pio Carrino, Daniel Deniz, Álvaro Rodrigo and Rabih Zbib. 2026. Overview of TalentCLEF 2026: Task A -- Contextualized Job--Person Matching. In Working Notes of CLEF 2026 -- Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum.
@inproceedings{talentclef2026overviewa,
title={{Overview of TalentCLEF 2026: Task A -- Contextualized Job--Person Matching}},
author={Fabregat, Hermenegildo and Garc\'{\i}a-Sardi{\~n}a, Laura and Estrella, Paula and Gasco, Luis and Carrino, Casimiro Pio and Deniz, Daniel and Rodrigo, \'{A}lvaro and Zbib, Rabih},
booktitle={{CLEF (Working Notes)}},
year={2026}
}
Task B overview paper
Please, cite:
Warre Veys, Luis Gasco, Matthias De Lange and Jens-Joris Decorte. 2026. Overview of TalentCLEF 2026: Task B -- Job-Skill Matching with Skill Type Classification. In Working Notes of CLEF 2026 -- Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum.
@inproceedings{talentclef2026overviewb,
title={{Overview of TalentCLEF 2026: Task B -- Job-Skill Matching with Skill Type Classification}},
author={Veys, Warre and Gasco, Luis and De Lange, Matthias and Decorte, Jens-Joris},
booktitle={{CLEF (Working Notes)}},
year={2026}
}
Participant papers
| Team | Title | Link | Bibtex |
|---|---|---|---|
| qwerity | Hybrid Dense-Sparse Retrieval and Re-Ranking for Multilingual Resume Retrieval from Job Descriptions Alonso Palomino | Coming soon | |
| NightSun | Pointwise and Pairwise LLM-as-a-Reranker for Job-Title to ESCO Skill Retrieval over GIST-Fine-Tuned JobBERT Yeyang Liu, Zhaohang Niu, Chunyu Li, Zhaoyan Fan | Coming soon | |
| TalentCLEF Task1-Methodology 5-Group1 | Multi-Stage CV Retrieval for TalentCLEF 2026 Task A: A Bi-Encoder and Cross-Encoder Pipeline Ameer Hamza | Coming soon | |
| baorphuc | In-Domain Contrastive Fine-tuning of Sentence-BERT for ESCO-based Job–Skill Retrieval and Classification Phuc Dao Bao, Tri Nguyen Ho Duy | Coming soon | |
| CYUT | CYUT at TalentCLEF 2026: Zero-Shot Multi-View Retrieval for Job-Person Matching Johan Poerwanto, Shih-Hung Wu | Coming soon | |
| classum | Semantic Enrichment for Resume Ranking and Skill Retrieval at TalentCLEF 2026 Sangkeun Kim, Minseong Choi, Seungho Lee | Coming soon | |
| MARSAD | MARSAD at TalentCLEF 2026 Task B: Hybrid ESCO-Aware Retrieval for Job–Skill Matching Shimaa Ibrahim, Wajdi Zaghouani | Coming soon | |
| DevoMatcher | Taxonomy-Aware Hybrid Retrieval with Bounded LLM Reranking for TalentCLEF 2026 Task A Arij Riabi, Malek Essayeh | Coming soon | |
| Olive | Fine-tuned Bi-Encoder for Job-Skill Matching: Exploring Curriculum Learning, Hard Negative Mining, and Hybrid Retrieval Dravid Ranjan, Adithya S, Vino Sasi Kumar Roxlin Rani Harrison, Lakshmi Priya Swaminatha Rao | Coming soon | |
| Skillberg | Skillberg at TalentCLEF 2026: Cross-Framework Knowledge-Graph Grounded Multilingual Encoders for Job–Person and Job–Skill Matching Martin Vielvoye | Coming soon | |
| HR_NLP | Ranking job-resume similarity using cross-lingual bi-encoding Daniel-Antoniu Dumitru | Coming soon | |
| UBCS | A Union Fusion of PyTerrier, Doc2Query, BM25 and Multilingual Embeddings for Job Title Matching Edwin Thuma, George Anderson | Coming soon | |
| VerbaNex | VerbaNex at TalentCLEF 2026: A Hybrid Multilingual Retrieval and Approach for Contextualized Job-Person Matching Melissa Moreno, Juan Carlos Martinez-Santos, Edwin Puertas | Coming soon | |
| ui-nlp | ui-nlp at TalentCLEF 2026: Multilingual Bi-Encoder Retrieval with Ensemble Strategy for Job-Person and Job-Skill Matching Ibtihal Qomariyyah Luthfiyyah, Satrio Yudhoatmojo, Indra Budi | Coming soon | |
| hr_gradient | Semantic Reranking for Zero-Shot Occupation-Skill Linking Alejandro Jesús Castañeira Rodríguez | Coming soon | |
| bipboopbipboop | Retrieve, Rerank, Survive: LLM-Listwise Pipelines for Job–Person and Job–Skill Matching at TalentCLEF 2026 Leo Hemamou, Robin Dupont | Coming soon | |
| QTPride | QTPride @TalentCLEF 2026: Towards Multi-View Job-Person Matching with LLM Parsing and Knowledge Graph-Enhanced Retrieval Huu-Huy-Hoang Tran | Coming soon |