TalentCLEF 2026 Workshop Schedule
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This is a preliminary schedule. Times, talks and speakers are subject to change until the final CLEF 2026 programme is published.
The presentations will not necessarily be given in the order shown below, so we kindly ask all participants to attend the full session in which their talk is scheduled.| Tuesday 22 September |
| 14:00-15:30 | Session 1 | - Welcome to TalentCLEF 2026
Organizers (Luis Gascó) - Overview of TalentCLEF 2026: Task A — Contextualized Job–Person Matching
Hermenegildo Fabregat, Laura García-Sardiña, Paula Estrella, Luis Gasco, Casimiro Pio Carrino, Daniel Deniz, Álvaro Rodrigo, Rabih Zbib - Ranking job-resume similarity using cross-lingual bi-encoding
Daniel-Antoniu Dumitru - A Union Fusion of PyTerrier, Doc2Query, BM25 and Multilingual Embeddings for Job-Person Matching
Edwin Thuma, George Anderson - Hybrid Dense-Sparse Retrieval and Re-Ranking for Multilingual Resume Retrieval from Job Descriptions
Alonso Palomino - VerbaNexAI at TalentCLEF 2026: A Hybrid Multilingual Retrieval and Approach for Contextualized Job-Person Matching
Melissa Moreno, Juan Carlos Martinez-Santos, Edwin Puertas - Taxonomy-Aware Hybrid Retrieval with Bounded LLM Reranking for TalentCLEF 2026 Task A
Arij Riabi, Malek Essayeh - Retrieve, Rerank, Survive: LLM-Listwise Pipelines for Job–Person and Job–Skill Matching at TalentCLEF 2026
Léo Hemamou, Robin Dupont
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| 15:30-16:00 | | Coffee break |
| 16:00-17:30 | Session 2 | - Overview of TalentCLEF 2026: Task B — Job-Skill Matching with Skill Type Classification
Warre Veys, Luis Gasco, Matthias De Lange, Jens-Joris Decorte - CYUT at TalentCLEF 2026: Zero-Shot Multi-View Retrieval for Job-Person Matching
Johan Poerwanto, Shih-Hung Wu - Fine-tuned Bi-Encoder for Job-Skill Matching: Exploring Curriculum Learning, Hard Negative Mining, and Hybrid Retrieval
Lakshmi Priya Swaminatha Rao, Dravid Ranjan, Adithya S, Vino Sasi Kumar Roxlin Rani Harrison - Semantic Reranking for Zero-Shot Occupation-Skill Linking
Alejandro Jesús Castañeira Rodríguez - MARSAD at TalentCLEF 2026 Task B: Hybrid ESCO-Aware Retrieval for Job–Skill Matching
Shimaa Ibrahim, Wajdi Zaghouani - 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 - 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 - Skillberg at TalentCLEF 2026: Cross-Framework Knowledge-Graph Grounded Multilingual Encoders for Job–Person and Job–Skill Matching
Martin Vielvoye, Axel Potier
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| Wednesday 23 September |
| 14:00-15:30 | Session 3 | - Keynote presentation
Toine Bogers - TalentCLEF 2027: Presentation of next year's tasks
Organizers - Lessons from TalentCLEF 2026 and feedback for next edition
Organizers + participants - Presentation of diplomas
Organizers
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