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Course Recommender Systems Need to Consider the Job Market

Frej, Jibril  
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Dai, Anna  
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Montariol, Syrielle  
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July 10, 2024
SIGIR 2024 - Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
47 International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Current course recommender systems primarily leverage learner-course interactions, course content, learner preferences, and supplementary course details like instructor, institution, ratings, and reviews, to make their recommendation. However, these systems often overlook a critical aspect: the evolving skill demand of the job market. This paper focuses on the perspective of academic researchers, working in collaboration with the industry, aiming to develop a course recommender system that incorporates job market skill demands. In light of the job market's rapid changes and the current state of research in course recommender systems, we outline essential properties for course recommender systems to address these demands effectively, including explainable, sequential, unsupervised, and aligned with the job market and user's goals. Our discussion extends to the challenges and research questions this objective entails, including unsupervised skill extraction from job listings, course descriptions, and resumes, as well as predicting recommendations that align with learner objectives and the job market and designing metrics to evaluate this alignment. Furthermore, we introduce an initial system that addresses some existing limitations of course recommender systems using large Language Models (LLMs) for skill extraction and Reinforcement Learning (RL) for alignment with the job market. We provide empirical results using open-source data to demonstrate its effectiveness.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1145/3626772.3657847
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85200555213

Author(s)
Frej, Jibril  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Dai, Anna  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Montariol, Syrielle  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Bosselut, Antoine  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Käser, Tanja  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Date Issued

2024-07-10

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery, Inc

Published in
SIGIR 2024 - Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
ISBN of the book

9798400704314

Start page

522

End page

532

Subjects

course recommendation

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entity linking

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recommender system

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REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
ML4ED  
NLP  
Event nameEvent acronymEvent placeEvent date
47 International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Washington, United States

2024-07-14 - 2024-07-18

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January 26, 2025
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/244893
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