A Few-Shot Semantic Meta-Learning Framework with CRF for Skill Entity Recognition in Open Innovation Ecosystems
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: The accelerating pace of digital transformation is reshaping labour-market dynamics, driving the emergence of new competencies, and intensifying the need for scalable skill-intelligence systems within open innovation ecosystems. Yet, research on Indonesian Named Entity Recognition (NER) remains limited for skill-extraction tasks, especially in low-resource contexts where annotated data are scarce and novel skill expressions evolve rapidly. To address this gap, this study contributes to applied Natural Language Processing (NLP) by introducing the Few-Shot Semantic Meta-Learning framework with CRF (FSM-CRF) for Indonesian skill entity recognition, which integrates semantic span representations, episodic meta-learning, and BIO-constrained CRF decoding to enhance prototype stability and entity-boundary precision for complex, multi-token skill expressions. Using the NERSkill.id dataset, the proposed model is evaluated under a 3-way, 10-shot episodic setting and achieves a micro-F1 of 73.84%, outperforming traditional supervised approaches (IndoBERT fine-tuning, BiLSTM-CRF) and existing few-shot baselines. Ablation experiments further demonstrate that semantic span modelling and structured CRF inference play pivotal roles in improving robustness, while meta-learning strengthens adaptability across diverse and evolving skill categories. From an open innovation perspective, this framework offers a data-efficient solution for dynamic competency mapping, reducing dependence on costly annotation pipelines and enabling continuous updates to workforce skill taxonomies. Overall, the findings highlight semantic meta-learning as a promising foundation for next-generation skill-intelligence infrastructures that support AI-enabled innovation management, strategic workforce planning, and evidence-informed policy design.
Language: English
Topic: Topic Modeling
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7127586857