Semantic Matching Between Job Offers And Job Search Requests

Leborgne. We wish to thank the LE MONDE newspaper team for their collaboration during the specification phase. I The primary objective of this system which was developed for the LE MONDE daily newspaper, is to offer an efficient tool for a rapid and intelligent job searching service to professionals in the context of the ever increasing number of advertisements in the printed press. Traditionally, offers of employment appear in newspapers and magazines and sometimes cover twenty pages. The person in search of employment faces the daunting t~tsk of daily readings of lists of job offers. the system will propose to the candidate 3 categories of job offers : 1.-Project manager real time-Project manager in process control This system carries out an optimized comparison between the job offers in the advertisement data base and the requests and/or curriculum vitae entered by end-users at their terminals (minitel). This is performed by extracting pertinent information from the input texts and comparing it at semantic level with the Knowledge Base and the data of the indexed offers. The requirements expressed in the job offer should resemble as closely as possible the characteristics of the candidate or at least be semantically close. More precisely, the results of the matching process are grouped according to the three following criteria :-the requirements of the position are directly fulfilled by the characteristics of the candidate-the requirements expressed in the job offer are met only partially the job offers require characteristics other than those expressed in the candidate's curriculum vitae, but are in the same semantic field. For example, if the requested position is: (1) 'project manager real time computing', The end-user interface allows the candidate to enter his curriculum vitae in natural language 2. Part of the interaction with the candidate concerns the identification of unknown words (typing errors and spelling mistakes) at which point the system asks the user to correct his text. When a user's request does not match with any requirements in the job offers data base, the system enters into a dialogue with the candidate in order to relax or modify the constraints he imposed on the job search criteria at initial request time. The job offers proposed are assembled into groups according to their semantic pertinence with respect to the candidate's request. Databases 1_ This system is in operation since September 89 and can 'be consulted by Minitel, using telephone number 3615 and …