Gianni Anelli LopezLink opens in a new window, PhD student at IER, gave a talk at the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) Annual Conference in Harrogate in early September. His talk was on 'Extracting skills in online job advertisements: using Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools on labour skills assessment'.

Starting with a presentation on how to build a skills extractor, he shared the results of the extractor for the Chilean labour market, emphasising that the methodology is applicable to different countries and languages. The methodology was positively received and the ensuing discussion focused on the applicability of the method for fine tuning Large Language Models.

Following this, Gianni was invited to give a similar talk to students enrolled in the MSc Business Data Analytics at Bangor University in October 2023.