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A New Approach to Information Extraction in User-Centric E-Recruitment Systems
Applied Sciences
  • Malik Nabeel Ahmed Awan
  • Sharifullah Khan
  • Khalid Latif
  • Asad Masood Khattak
ORCID Identifiers

0000-0002-2629-0785

Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-17-2019
Abstract

In modern society, people are heavily reliant on information available online through various channels, such as websites, social media, and web portals. Examples include searching for product prices, news, weather, and jobs. This paper focuses on an area of information extraction in e-recruitment, or job searching, which is increasingly used by a large population of users in across the world. Given the enormous volume of information related to job descriptions and users’ profiles, it is complicated to appropriately match a user’s profile with a job description, and vice versa. Existing information extraction techniques are unable to extract contextual entities. Thus, they fall short of extracting domain-specific information entities and consequently affect the matching of the user profile with the job description. The work presented in this paper aims to extract entities from job descriptions using a domain-specific dictionary. The extracted information entities are enriched with knowledge using Linked Open Data. Furthermore, job context information is expanded using a job description domain ontology based on the contextual and knowledge information. The proposed approach appropriately matches users’ profiles/queries and job descriptions. The proposed approach is tested using various experiments on data from real life jobs’ portals. The results show that the proposed approach enriches extracted data from job descriptions, and can help users to find more relevant jobs.

Publisher
MDPI
Keywords
  • Semantic web,
  • Information retrieval,
  • Information extraction,
  • E-recruitment
Scopus ID
85106803037
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
Yes
Open Access Type
Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series
Citation Information
Malik Nabeel Ahmed Awan, Sharifullah Khan, Khalid Latif and Asad Masood Khattak. "A New Approach to Information Extraction in User-Centric E-Recruitment Systems" Applied Sciences Vol. 9 (2019) ISSN: <a href="https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/2076-3417" target="_blank">2076-3417</a>
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/asad-khattak/6/