KG-First, LLM-Fallback: A Hybrid Microservice for Grounded Skill Search and Explanation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01582v1
• Date: Sat, 02 May 2026 19:07:56 GMT
• Title: KG-First, LLM-Fallback: A Hybrid Microservice for Grounded Skill Search and Explanation
• Abstract summary: Authoritative competency frameworks such as ESCO, ROME, and O*NET are essential for aligning education with labor market needs, yet their technical complexity and structural heterogeneity hinder practical adoption by educators.<n>This paper introduces SkillGraph-Service, a microservice designed to bridge this gap by unifying these resources into a provenance-preserving Knowledge Graph (KG)<n>The resulting architecture offers a practical, scalable, and auditable solution for integrating complex skill data into digital learning ecosystems.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Authoritative competency frameworks such as ESCO, ROME, and O*NET are essential for aligning education with labor market needs, yet their technical complexity and structural heterogeneity hinder practical adoption by educators. This paper introduces SkillGraph-Service, an interoperable microservice designed to bridge this gap by unifying these resources into a provenance-preserving Knowledge Graph (KG). Adopting a KG-first, LLM-fallback architecture, the system combines symbolic rigor with sub-symbolic flexibility. It implements a lightweight hybrid retrieval engine (fusing SQLite FTS5 and HNSW vector search) to handle the vocabulary mismatch in educator queries, and utilizes Large Language Models (LLMs) strictly for constrained ranking and audience-aware explanation. Empirical evaluation on a multilingual dataset reveals that the proposed hybrid strategy achieves superior retrieval effectiveness (nDCG@5>0.94) with sub-200 ms latency, rendering computationally expensive cross-encoder re-ranking may be unnecessary for this domain. Furthermore, an analysis of generated explanations highlights a trade-off between fluency and faithfulness: while JSON-constrained LLMs ensure high citation precision, deterministic templates remain the most reliable method for maximizing evidence coverage. The resulting architecture offers a practical, scalable, and auditable solution for integrating complex skill data into digital learning ecosystems.

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