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Beyond Human Labels: A Multi-Linguistic Auto-Generated Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models on Resume Parsing

  • Zijian Ling
  • , Han Zhang
  • , Jiahao Cui
  • , Zhequn Wu
  • , Xu Sun
  • , Guohao Li
  • , Xiangjian He*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Efficient resume parsing is critical for global hiring, yet the absence of dedicated benchmarks for evaluating large language models (LLMs) on multilingual, structure-rich resumes hinders progress. To address this, we introduce ResumeBench, the first privacy-compliant benchmark comprising 2,500 synthetic resumes spanning 50 templates, 30 career fields, and 5 languages. These resumes are generated through a human-in-the-loop pipeline that prioritizes realism, diversity, and privacy compliance, which are validated against real-world resumes. This paper evaluates 24 state-of-the-art LLMs on ResumeBench, revealing substantial variations in handling resume complexities. Specifically, top-performing models like GPT-4o exhibit challenges in cross-lingual structural alignment while smaller models show inconsistent scaling effects. Code-specialized LLMs underperform relative to generalists, while JSON outputs enhance schema compliance but fail to address semantic ambiguities. Our findings underscore the necessity for domain-specific optimization and hybrid training strategies to enhance structural and contextual reasoning in LLMs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEMNLP 2025 - 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference
EditorsChristos Christodoulopoulos, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Carolyn Rose, Violet Peng
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages31919-31945
Number of pages27
ISBN (Electronic)9798891763326
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2025
Event30th Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2025 - Suzhou, China
Duration: 4 Nov 20259 Nov 2025

Publication series

NameEMNLP 2025 - 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Conference

Conference30th Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2025
Country/TerritoryChina
CitySuzhou
Period4/11/259/11/25

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Information Systems
  • Linguistics and Language

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