Notes: November 1996

Sunday, 24 November 1996

BASIS FOR WORD RECOGNITION SOFTWARE

Any given word (a cluster of character) can be classified (in English) into one of the following "Categories:-

WORD / Verb/ Adverb/ Preposition / Adjective / Noun /Common Noun/ Proper Noun

So the first task is to create a "directory" of each of this category. Then each "word" must be compared to the words contained in given directory. If a match occurs then that WORD would get categorized as belonging to that category. The process has to be repeated again and again by trying to match the word with the words contained in each of the categories TILL a match is found. If no "match" is found, that word should be separately stored in a file marked. "UNMATCHED WORDS" Everyday, an expert would study all the words contained in this file and assign each of these words a definite category, using his "HUMAN INTELLIGENCE" In this way, over a period of time, the human intelligence will identify/ categories’ each and every word contained in ENGLISH LANGUAGE. This will be the process of transferring human intelligence to computer. Essentially the trick lies in getting the computer (Software) to MIMIC the process followed by a human brain while scanning a set of words (i.e. reading) and by analyzing the "Sequence" in which these words are arranged, to assign a MEANING to each word or a string of words (a phrase or a sentence). I cannot believe that no one has attempted this before (especially since it has so much commercial value). We don't know who has developed this software and where to find it so we must end - up rediscovering the wheel ! Our computer files contain some 900,000 words which have repeatedly occurred in our records - mostly coveted bio - data’s or words captured from bio - dates. We have, in our files, some 3500 Converted bio - data’s. It has taken us about 6 years to accomplish this feat

i.e. Approx 600 converted biodatas / years OR Approx 2 biodatas converted every working day !

Assuming that all those (converted) bio data’s which are older than 2 years are OBSOLUTE, this means that perhaps no more than 1200 are current / valid / useful !

So, one thing becomes clear The "rate of Obsolescence" is faster than the "rate of conversion" ! Of course, we can argue, "Why should we waste / spend our time in "converting" a bio - data ? All we need to do is to Capture the ESSENTIAL / MINIMUM DATA (from each biodata_ which would qualify that person to get searched / spotted. If he gets short listed, we can always, at that point of time, spend time / effort to fully converted this bio - data .in fact this is what we have done so far - because there was a premium on the time of data - entry operators. That time was best utilized in capturing the essential / minimum data. But if latest technology permits/ enables us to convert 200 biodatas each day (instead of just 2 biodatas with the same effort/ time/ cost, then why not convert 200? why be satisfied with just 2 day ? If this can be made to "happen", we would be in a position to send - out / fax - out e : mail, converted bio - data’s to our clients in matter of "minutes" instead of "days" - which it takes today ! That is no all A converted bio - data has for more KEYWORDS (Knowledge - skills - attributes - attitudes etc) than the MINIMUM DATA. So there is an improved chance of spotting the RIGHT MAN, using a QUERY which contains a large no. of KEYWORDS. So, to - day, if the clients "likes" only ONE converted bio - data, out of TEN sent to him (a huge waste of everybody's time/ effort), then under the new situation he should be able to "like" 4 out of every 5 converted bio - data’s sent to him !

This would vastly improve the chance of at least ONE executive getting appointed in such assignment. This should be our goal. This goal could be achieved only if,

Step # 1.Each biodata received every day is "scanned" on the same day

step # 2. Converted to TEXT (ASCII)

step # 3. PEN given serially

step # 4. WORD - RECOGNISED (a step beyond OCR - Optical - CHARACTER recognized)

step # 5. Each word "categorized" and indexed and stored in appropriate FIELDS of the DATABASE.

step # 6. Database "reconstituted" to create "converted" biodata as per our standard format

Step 1/ 2/ 3 are not difficult , Step 4 is difficult, Step 5 is more difficult , Step 6 is most difficult But if we keep working on this problem, it can be solved 50% accurate in 3 months , 70 % accurate in 6 months, 90% accurate in 12 months.

Even though there are about 900,000 indexed WORDS in our ISYS file, all of these do not occur (in a biodata/ record) with the same frequency. Some occur far more frequently, some frequently some regularly, some occasionally and some rarely. Then the course (in the English language) there must be thousands of other Words, which Love not occurred EVEN ONCE in any of the biodatas. Therefore we won't find them amongst the existing indexed file of 900,000 words. It is quite possible that some of these (so far missing words( may occur if this file (of words) were to grow to 2 million.

As this file of words grows and grows, the probabilities of :-

· A words having been left out and

· Such a left - out likely to occur (in the next biodata) are "decreasing"

Meaning, Some 20% of the words (in English language) make - up may be 905 of all the "Occurrences". This would become clear when we plot the frequency distribution - curve of the 900,000 words which we have already indexed. And even when this population grows to 2 million, the shape (the nature) of the frequency distribution curve is NOT likely to change! only with a much large WORD - POPULATION, the "accuracy" will marginally increase. So our search is to find, Which are these 20% (20% X 9 Lakh = 180,000) Words which make - up 90% "area under the curve" i.e. POPULATION? Then focus our efforts in "Categorizing" these 180,000 words in the first place If we manage to do this, 90% of our battle is won. Of course this pre - supposes that before we can attempt "Categorization", we must be able to recognize each of them as a "WORD" 6 yrs down the line (Since writing this note), I feel this no. is no more than 30,000 words!

COMPANY

SIMILAR MEANING WORDS

Firm/ Corporation/ Organization/ Employer/ Industry (Misnomer)

ASSOCIATED WORDS

Name of (Company)/ Company (Profile) /Present/Current/Past /(Company) Products / (Company) Structure/ (Company) Organization.

CAREER

Career Path/ Career History /Career Achievement/Career Growth/ Career Objective/ Career Progression / Career Information/ Career Details/ Career Development/ Career Goal/Career Interest/Career Nature/ Career Profile/ Career Record.

Associated Words

Past/ Present / Professional/ Academic / Previous/ SIMILAR MEANING WORDS/ SERVICE

CURRICULAM

SIMILAR MEANING WORDS

Course / Subjects/ Topics

RELATED WORDS

Academy/ Scholastic / Education/ research / Exam/scholarship/ Graduation/training/ Honors/teaching / Institution/ University/ College/ Degree/ Diploma / Certificate/ Learning / Pass /Passing / Year of passing / Project / Training/ Qualifications

DEPENDENTS

Associated Words

Family/ Father / Mother / Brother/ Sister/ Wife / Children/ Son/ Daughter

EDUCATION

Education (al)/ Educational Qualifications/ Qualifications/ Academic Qualifications/ Technical Qualifications.

Associated Words

Qualification / School/ Degree/ Diploma/university / Graduate/ Graduation/Institution/ Doctorate/ Certificate / Curricular/ Course/ Exam/ Topics/ Subjects/ Electives / Under – Graduate/Fellow/ Honors/ Distinction / First Class/ Grade Point Average (GPA)

EXPERIENCE

Employment experience/Work experience / Job experience/ Professional experience/ Current experience/ Past experience/. Present experience/ Relevant experience/ Industrial / Industry experience/ Teaching experience / Details of experience /Foreign experience/ Factory experience/ Global experience/ Management experience / Site experience/ Major experience / Practical experience/ Research experience/ Service experience/ Training experience/ Technical experience

EMPLOYER

Company/ Firm /Organization/ Corporation

RELATED WORDS

Present / Current/ Past/ Career/ Job/ Service/ Name of

EMPLOYMENT

Employment Particular / Employment Past / Employment Present/ Employment Current/ Employment Record/ Employment History / Employment Existing /. Employment Data/ Employment Nature/ Employment Period

FUNCTION

Responsibility / Duty/Job/ Past / Management/ Present/Description/ Existing / Profile/ Current/ Skills (associated with) /Con – current/ Structure (Functional) / Major / Organization (Functional) / Minor /Technical/ Nature of/ Reports to

FACTORY

Plant / Site/ Works /Manufacturing location

INFOMRATION

DATA / KNOWLEDGE / DATABASE/ DATA SHEET/ Processing/current Collection /Past/ Retrieval/ Personal/ Analysis /job Related/ Category/ Work Related/ Career/ Additional/ Details/ Institutional/ Compilation/ Particular/ Field of/ General/ Industry (IT industry) /Nature of/ Purpose of/ Product / Project related/ Organizational/ Service/ State of / Dissemination/

EXECUTIVE

Employee/ Worker / Work man/ Supervisor/ Officer/ Manager / Data sheet/ Profile/ Staff Company/ Workforce/ Responsibility Position/ Status/ Search /Skills/ Selection/title Placement/designation/ Interview/ Bio Data /Execute/ Exposure Resume /Post/ Salary /Compensation/ Training /Experience

h.c.parekh

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BASIS FOR WORD RECOGNITION SOFTWARE

BASIS FOR WORD RECOGNITION SOFTWARE. (24-11-96)

BASIS FOR A WORD RECOGNITION SOFTWARE.

Any given word (a cluster of characters) can be classified (in English) into one of the following "categories":

A WORD

Verb
Adverb
Preposition
Adjective
Noun

Common Noun
Proper Noun

So the first task is to create a directory of each of this category. Then each word must be compared to the words contained in a given directory. If a match occurs then that word would get so categorised as belonging to that category. The process has to be repeated again and again

by trying to match the word with the words contained in each of the categories TILL a match is found.

If no match is found that word should be separately stored in a file marked "UNMATCHED WORDS".

Everyday, an expert would study all the words contained in this file and assign each of these words a definite category, using his "HUMAN INTELLIGENCE".

In this way, over a period of time, the human intelligence will identify/categorise each and every word contained in English Language. This will be the process of transferring human intelligence to computer.

Essentially the trick lies in getting the computer (software) to MIMIC the process followed by a human brain while scanning a set of words (i.e. reading) and by analysing the "sequence" in which these words are arranged, to assign a MEANING to each word or a string of words (a phrase or a sentence).

I cannot believe that no one has attempted this before (especially since it has so much commercial value). We don't know who has developed this software and where to find it so we must end-up rediscovering the wheel!

Our computer files contain some 900,000 words which have repeatedly occurred in our records - mostly converted biodatas or words captured from bio-datas.

We have, in our files, some 3500 converted bio-datas. It has taken us about 6 years to accomplish this feat i.e.

approx. 600 converted biodatas / year

approx. 2 biodatas converted every working day!

Assuming that all those (converted) bio-datas which are older than 2 years are OBSOLETE, this means that perhaps no more than 1200 are current/valid (useful)!

So, one thing becomes clear.

The "rate of Obsolescence" is faster than the "rate of conversion"!

Of course, we can argue,

"Why should we waste/spend our time in "converting a bio-data? All we need to do is to capture the ESSENTIAL/MINIMUM DATA (from each bio-data) which would qualify that person to get searched/spotted. If he gets short-listed, we can always, at that point of time, spend time/effort to fully convert his bio-data."

In fact this is what we have do so far - because there was a premium on the time of data-entry operators. That time was best utilised in capturing the essential/minimum data.

But if latest technology permits/enables us to convert 200 biodatas each day (instead of just 2 bio-datas) with the of same effort/time/cost, then why not convert 200? Why be satisfied with just 2/day?

If this can be made to

"happen", we would be in a position to send-out/fax-out/e-mail, converted bio-datas to our clients in matter of "minutes" instead of "days" - which it takes today!

That is not all.

A converted bio-data has far more KEYWORDS (knowledge - skills - attributes etc) than the MINIMUM DATA. So there is an improved chance of spotting the RIGHT MAN, using a QUERY which contains a large no. of KEYWORDS.

So, to-day if the clients "likes" only ONE converted bio-data, out of TEN sent to him (a huge waste of everybody's time/effort), then under the new situation he should be able to "like" 4 out of every 5 converted bio-datas sent to him!

This would vastly improve the chance of at least ONE executive getting appointed in each assignment. This should be our goal.

This goal could be achieved only if,

Step

#1 - each bio-data received every day is "scanned" on the same day
#2 - converted to TEXT (ASCII)
#3 - PEN given serially (This line appears crossed out or marked to indicate placement change)
#4 - WORD-RECOGNISED (a step beyond OCR-optical-character recognition)
#5 - each word "categorised" and indexed and stored in appropriate FIELDS of the DATABASE
#6 - Database "reconstituted" to create "converted" bio-data as per our standard format.

Steps # 1/2/3 are not difficult

Step # 4 is difficult

# 5 is more difficult

# 6 is most difficult

But if we keep working on this problem, it can be solved.

90% accurate in 3 months

70% " in 6 "

20% " in 12 "

Even though there are about 900,000 indexed WORDS in our file, all of these do not occur (in a bio-data/record) with the same frequency. Some occur far more frequently, some frequently, some regularly, some occasionally and some rarely.

Then of course (in the english language) there must be thousands of other words which have not occurred EVEN ONCE in any of the bio-datas.

Therefore we won't find them amongst the existing indexed file of 900,000 words.

It is quite possible that some of these (so far missing words) may occur if this file (of words) may were to grow to 2 million.

As this file of words, grows and grows, the probabilities of

a word having been left out
and such a word likely to occur (in the next bio-data), are decreasing.

The frequency-distribution curve might look like follows:

Meaning

Some 20% of the words (in english language) make-up, maybe 90% of all the "occurrences".

This would become clear when we plot the frequency distribution-curve of the 900,000 words which we have already indexed.

And even when this population grows to 2 million, the shape (the nature) of the frequency-

distribution curve is NOT likely to change! Only with a much large WORD-POPULATION the "accuracy will marginally increase."

So our search is to find,

Which are these 20% ($\approx 20\% \times 9\text{ lakh} = \mathbf{180,000}$) words which make-up 90% "area under the curve" i.e. POPULATION?¹

Then focus our efforts in "Categorising" these 180,000 words in the first-place.²

If we manage to do this, 90% of our battle is won.³

Of course this pre-supposes that before we can attempt categorization, we must be able to recognise each of them as a "WOR⁴D".

COMPANY

SIMILAR MEANING WORDS

Firm
Corporation
Organisation
Employer
Industry (Misnomer)

ASSOCIATED WORDS

Name of (Company)
Company (Profile)
Present
Current
Past
(Company) Products
(Company) Structure
(Company) Organization

Page 11: CAREER

(Career) Path
" History
" Achievement
" Growth
" Objective
" Progression
" Information
" Details.
" Development
" Goal.
" Interest
" Nature.
" Profile
" Record.

ASSOCIATED WORDS

Past
Present
Professional
Academic
Previous

SIMILAR MEANING WORDS

SERVICE.

CURRICULAM

SIMILAR MEANING WORDS

Course
Subjects
Topics

RELATED WORDS

Academy
Education
Exam
Graduation.
Honours.
Institution
University.
College
Degree
Diploma.
Certificate
Learning
Pass/Passing./Year of Passing.
Project
Training
Qualifications.
Scholastic
Research.
Scholarship
Training
Teaching

EDUCATION

Education(al)
Educational Qualifications
Qualifications
Academic Qualifications
Technical "

Associated Words

Qualification
Degree
Diploma
Graduate/Graduation
Post-Graduate
Doctorate
Certificate.
Curriculam
Course
Exam
Topics
Subjects
Electives.
Under-Graduate.
Fellow
Honours
Distinction
First class
Grade Point Average (CGPA)
School
College
University
Institution

EXPERIENCE

Employment experience
Work "
Job "
Professional "
Current "
Past "
Present "
Relevant "
Industrial/Industry "
Teaching "
Details of "
Foreign "
Factory "
Global "
Management "
Site "
Major "
Practical "
Research "
Service "
Training "
Technical "

EMPLOYER

SIMILAR MEANING WORDS

Company
Firm
Organisation
Corporation.

RELATED WORDS

Present
Current
Past
Career
Job
Service
Name of
Employment
Employment Particulars.

Past
Present
Current
Record
History
Existing
Data
Nature
Period.

FUNCTION

SIMILAR MEANING WORDS

Responsibility
Duty

RELATED WORDS

Job
Management
Description
Profile
Skills. (associated with)
Structure (Functional)
Organisation(" )
Technical
Past
Present
Existing
Current
Con-current
Major
Minor
Nature of
Reports to

FACTORY

WORDS WITH SIMILAR MEANING.

Plant
Site
Works
Manufacturing location.

INFORMATION

WORDS WITH SIMILAR MEANINGS

DATA
KNOWLEDGE
DATA-BASE
DATA SHEET

RELATED WORDS

Processing
Collection
Retrieval
Analysis
Category
Career
Details.
Compilation.
Particulars.
Field of
General
Industry (IT Industry)
Nature of
Purpose of
Product/Project related
Organisational
Service.
state of
Dissemination
Current
Past
Personal
Job Related
Work Related
Additional
Institutional.

EXECUTIVE

WORDS WITH SIMILAR MEANING

Employee
Worker/Workman
Supervisor
Officer
Manager

Related Words

Data Sheet.
Staff
Workforce
Performance
Position
Search
Selection
Placement
Interview
Bio Data
Resume
Salary
Compensation
Training.
Experience.
Function.
Profile.
Company.
Responsibility.
Status.
Skills.
Title
Designation
Post.
Execute
Exposure

INSTITUTION

Related Words

Academic
Training
Educational
Professional.
Social
Political
Economic
Vocational
(Institutional) Membership.
Technical
Technological.
University
College
Faculty.

JOB.

WORDS WITH SIMILAR MEANING

Service
Employment
Work
Assignment
Appointment
Retainership
Consultancy.

Related Words

Function
Profile
Nature
Responsibility
Estimation
Evaluation
Co-ordination
Description
Experience
Exposure
Knowledge.
Organisation
Performance
Parameters
Skills.
Previous
Past/Present
Current
Existing
Area.
Category
Details.
Duty
Department
Division
Section
Company
History
Major
Date of Joining
Date of Leaving
Duration
Period./Tenure

KNOWLEDGE

Similar words.

Skill
Expertise
Technique

Related words

Job knowledge
Working "
Computer "
Technical "
Up-to-date "
Client "
Product "
People "
Procedural "
Industry "
Conceptual "
Functional "
Market "
Practical "
Professional "
Known ( " ) languages.

NAME

WORDS HAVING SAME/SIMILAR MEANING

Personal Name
Own Name
Surname
Family Name
First Name
Middle Name
INITIALS
Full Name

WORDS TO BE DISCARDED

Father's Name
Mother's "
Wife's "
Son/Daughter's Name

ALSO USED AS

Name of Company

Employer
Firm
Organisation

PRESENT/CURRENT PAST/PREVIOUS

USED IN REFERENCE TO

Job
Position
Post
Designation
Performance
Profile
Work
Profession.
Responsibility
Salary
Compensation
Remuneration.
Service
Status
Title
Experience/Work Experience.

PROFILE

USED IN RELATION TO

Job
Work
Current/Present
Past/Previous
Customer
Experience
Global
Industry
Business
Occupation
Product
Professional
Self
Service

EXPERIENCE

SIMILAR MEANING WORDS

Exposure

USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH

Industry Experience
Industrial "
Teaching "
Academic "
Analysis of
Details of
(Production) Experience
(Marketing) "
(Sales) "
(Research) "
(Manufacturing) "
(Overseas/Foreign) "
(Design) "
(Management) "
(Organisational) "
(Product) "
(Professional) "

PHONE

SAME MEANING WORD

Telephone

Used in relation to

Office
Residence
Home
Factory/Works
Board
Direct
Mobile/Cellular
Care of (C/o.)
Contact
Directory

ADVERTISEMENT

Used in relation to

Job/Job Opportunity
Vacancy
Position/Post
Recruitment
Placement
Institutional
Product
Employment
Criteria
Media
Tarriff
Application
Bio-data
Resume

OBJECTIVE

Similar meaning words

MISSION
GOAL
TARGET

USED IN RELATION TO

Career
Professional
Developmental
Management
Research
Training.

DATA

Similar Words

Information
Details

Used in relation to

Personal
Provisional
BIO - (Data)
(Data) sheet
(Data) Capture
(Data) base

DATE

Used in relation to

Date of Birth
" Joining
" Leaving
" Graduation
" Agreement
" Passport
" Publication
" Qualifying

CONTRIBUTION

SIMILAR MEANING WORDS

ACHIEVEMENT
ATTAINMENT

ASSOCIATED WORDS

Significant.
Major
Past
Professional
Technical

BACKGROUND

Educational Background
Professional "
Academic "
Industry "
Social "
Experience "
Career "
Company "
Family "
Employment "
General "
Occupational "
Personal "

COMPENSATION

GROSS ANNUAL
MONTHLY.

SIMILAR MEANING WORDS

SALARY
REMUNERATION
PERKS.
EMOLUMENTS
PAY
PAY-SCALE
REIMBURSEMENT

ASSOCIATED WORDS

GROSS
ANNUAL
MONTHLY
CURRENT
DRAWN
EXPECTED
PACKAGE
CASH

BIO-DATA

SIMILAR MEANING WORDS

RESUME
CURRICULUM - VITAE

BUSINESS

Type of Business
Business Volume
" Territory.

SIMILAR MEANING WORDS

INDUSTRY
MARKET

POSITION

Position Expected
Position Held
Present Position
Current "

SIMILAR MEANING WORDS

POST
DESIGNATION
TITLE
PLACEMENT
STATUS

DESIGNATION

SIMILAR WORDS

Post
Position
Title

SIMILAR MEANING WORDS

GRADE
OCCUPATION
STATUS

COMPUTER

Era
Education
Qualification
Hardware
Software
Proficiency
Skills
Literacy
Knowledge
Languages
Exposure

ACADEMIC.

Academics
Academic Performance
" Qualification
" Progress
" Credentials
" Achievements
" Distinction
" Institution

SIMILAR WORDS

EDUCATION
EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS
PASS
PASSING.

ACTIVITY

Social
Functional
Current
Present
Past

ASSIGNMENT

Nature of Assignment
Major
Current
Business
Current
Functional
Foreign
Job
Outstanding
Present
Past
Significant
Teaching

SIMILAR WORDS

DUTY

ACHIEVEMENT

(Major) Achievement
Attainment.
(Academic) Achievement
(Career) Achievement
(Outstanding) Achievement
(Professional) Achievement
(Significant) Achievement

SIMILAR WORDS

HONOURS.
ATTAINMENT
PROGRESS
EXCELLENCE
HIGHLIGHTS
MERIT
DISTINCTION

ACCOMODATION.

SIMILAR WORDS

HOME
RESIDENCE

ADDRESS

Office
Residence
Home
Permanent
Temporary
Contact
Current
Communication
Correspondence
Postal
Posting
Mailing
Local.
Business
Company..
Employment
Factory
Organisation
Site
Works

AGE.

Derivative

Birth
Birth-day
Birth-date
Born.
Date of Birth

AREA.

Area of SPECIALIZATION
Area of RESPONSIBILITY
Area of WORK
Area of EXPERTISE
Area of EXCELLENCE
Area of INTEREST
Area of MANAGEMENT
Area of TRAINING

1-12-96 ARDIS = Automatic Resume Deciphering Intelligence Software ARGIS = Automatic Resume Generating Intelligence Software

What are these Softwares? What will they do? How will they help us? How will they help our clients/candidates?

ARDIS

This software will break-up/dissect a Resume into its different constituents, such as:

a. Physical information (data) about a Candidate (Executive)
b. Academic "
c. Employment Record (Industry - Function - Products/Services wise)
d. Salary
e. Achievements / Contributions
f. Attitudes / Attributes / Skills / Knowledge:
g. His Preferences w.r.t. Industry / Function / Location

In fact, if every candidate was to fill-in our EDS, the info. would automatically fall into "proper" slots/fields since our EDS forces a candidate to "dissect" himself into various compartments.

But, getting every applicant/executive to fill-in our standardised EDS is next to impossible - and may not be even necessary. Executives (who have already spent a lot of time and energy preparing/typing their bio-datas) are most reluctant to sit-down once more and spend a lot of time and energy again to furnish us the SAME information/data in our neatly arranged blocks of EDS. For them, this duplication is a WASTE OF TIME! EDS is designed for our (Information-handling / processing / retrieving) Convenience and that is the way he perceives it! Even if he is vaguely conscious that this (filling in of EDS) would help him in the long-run, he does not see any immediate benefit from filling this - hence reluctant to do so. We too have a problem - a "Cost / Time / Effort"

If we are receiving 100 bio-datas each day (This Should happen soon), whom to Send our EDS and whom NOT to?

This can be decided only by a SENIOR executive/consultant who goes through each & every bio-data daily and reaches a Conclusion as to

which resume's are of Interest & need Sending an EDS
where we need not spend time/money/energy of Sending an EDS.

We may not be able to employ a number of Senior/Competent consultants who can "Semtise" (all incoming bio-datas and take this decision on a DAILY basis!). This, itself could be a costly proposition.

So,

on ONE HAND - we have time/cost/energy/effort of Sending EDS to everyone

on OTHER HAND - we have time/cost of Several Senior Consultants to Separate out "chaffe" from "wheat"

NEITHER IS DESIRABLE.

But

from each bio-data received daily, we still need to decipher and drop into relevant slots/fields/ relevant data/information.

OUR REQUIREMENTS

match a candidate's profile with client Requirement Profile
match a candidate's profile against hundreds of recruitment advertisements appearing daily in media (Job BBS.)
match a candidate's profile against "specific vacancies" that any corporation (Client or not) may "post" on our vacancy bulletin-board (unadvertised vacancies).
match a candidate's profile against "Most likely Companies" who are likely to hire/need such an executive, using our CORPORATE DATA BASE, which will contain info. such as PRODUCTS / SERVICES of each & every Company
Convert each bio-data received into a RECONSTITUTED BIO-DATA (Converted bio-data), to enable us to send it out to any client / Non-client organisation at the click of a mouse.
generate (for commercial / profitable exploitation), Such bye-product services as

Compensation Trends
Organisation charts
Job Descriptions
etc. etc

Permit a candidate to log-into our database and remotely modify/alter his bio-data.
Permit a client (or a non-client) to log into our database and remotely conduct a SEARCH.

ARDIS is required on the assumption that for a long time to come "typed" bio-datas would form a major source of our database.

Other sources, such as

duly filled-in EDS (hard-copy)
EDS on a floppy
downloading EDS over Internet (or Dial-up phone lines) & uploading after filling-in (like Intellimatch)

will continue to play a minor role in foreseeable future.

HOW WILL ARDIS WORK?

TYPED BIO-DATAS $\rightarrow$ SCAN $\rightarrow$ BIT-MAP IMAGE $\rightarrow$ OCR (Conversion to ASCII) $\rightarrow$ KEY-WORD RECOGNISER (Compare with KEY-WORDS stored in WORD-DIRECTORY of most frequently used words in 3500 converted bio-datas (2 yrs analysis)) $\rightarrow$ Convert to English characters (by comparison) $\rightarrow$ Convert to English language WORDS to create directory of KEY-WORDS (ISYS)

Below the flow chart are three boxes:

OSR Optical Sentence reader

Pick-out "sentences" & Create directory of KEY-SENTENCES
Most commonly used VERBS / ADVERBS / ADJECTIVES / PREPOSITION with each KEY-PHRASE

OCR Optical PHRASE reader

Pick out "Phrases" & Create directory of KEY-PHRASES (ARDIS)
Detect "Prefixes" & "Suffixes" used with each KEY-WORD that go to make-up "most frequently used PHRASES"

To recapitulate

ARDIS will,

recognise "characters"
convert to "WORDS"
Compare with 6258 key-words which we have found in 3500 converted bio-datas (using ISYS). If a "word" has not already appeared ($>10 \text{ times}$) in these 3500 bio-datas, then its chance (Probability) of occurring in the next bio-data is very very small. Indeed.1

But even then,2

ARDIS Software will store in memory, each "occurrence" of each WORD (old or new, first time or a thousandth time)3

and4

will continuously calculate its "probability of occurrence" as5 follows

$$p = \frac{\text{No. of occurrence of the given Word Sofar}}{\text{Total no. of occurrence of all the words in the entire population sofar}}$$

So that,

by the time we have SCANNED, 10,000 bio-datas, we would have literally covered all words that have, even a small PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE!

Because of its SELF-LEARNING / SELF-CORRECTING / SELF-IMPROVING capability,

ARDIS gets better & better equipped, to detect, in a scanned bio-data

Spelling mistakes ( wrong WORD )
Context " ( wrong prefix or Suffix ) - wrong PHRASE
Preposition " ( WRONG PHRASE )
Adverb/Verb " - WRONG SENTENCE.

With minor variations,

all thoughts, words (written), Speech (spoken) and actions, keep on repetiting again and again and again.

It is this REPETITIVENESS of words, phrases & sentences in Resume's that we plan to exploit.

In fact,

by examining & memorising the several hundred (or thousand) "sequences" in which the words appear, it should be possible to "construct" the "grammar" i.e. the logic behind the sequences. I suppose, this is the manner in which the experts were able to unravel the "meaning" of hierographic inscriptions on Egyptian...

How to build directories of "phrases"?

From 6252 words, let us pick any word, say

ACHIEVEMENT

Now we ask the Software to scan the directory containing 3500 converted bio-datas with instruction that everytime the word "Achievement" is spotted, the software will immediately spot/record the prefix. The software will record all the words that appeared before "Achievement" as also the "number of times" each of this prefix appeared.

WORD = ACHIEVEMENT

| Prefix Word found: | No. of times found (occurrence) | Probability of occurrence |

| :--- | :--- | :--- |

| e.g. | Total no = 55 | = 1.0000 |

| 1. Major | 10 | 10/55 = |

| 2. Minor | 9 | 9/55 = |

| 3. Significant | 8 | 8/55 = |

| 4. Relevant | 7 | 7/55 = |

| 5. True | 6 | |

| 6. Factual | 5 | |

| 7. My | 4 | |

| 8. Typical | 3 | |

| 9. Collective | 2 | |

| 10. Approximate | 1 | |

(Total no. = 55)

As more & more bio-datas are scanned,

The number of "prefixes" will go on increasing
The number of "occurrences" of each prefix will also go on increasing
The overall "population-size" will also go on increasing
The "probability of occurrence" of each prefix will go on getting more & more accurate i.e. more & more representative.

This process can go on & on & on (as long as we keep on scanning bio-data's). But "accuracy-improvements" will decline/taper-off, once a sufficiently large number of prefixes (to the word ACHIEVEMENT, have been accumulated. Saturation takes place.

The whole process can be repeated with the words that appear as "SUFFIXES" to the word ACHIEVEMENT, and the probability of occurrence of each Suffix also determined.

WORD = ACHIEVEMENT

| Suffix | No. of times found | Probability of occurrence |

| :--- | :--- | :--- |

| 1. Attained | 20 | 20/54 = |

| 2. reached | 15 | 15/54 = |

| 3. planned | 10 | 10/54 = |

| 4. targetted | 5 | |

| 5. arrived | 3 | |

| 6. recorded | 1 | |

54 (Population-size of all the occurrences) 1.000

Having figured-out the "probabilities of occurrences" of each of the prefixes and each of the suffixes (to a given word - in this case ACHIEVEMENT), we could next tackle the issue of "a given combination of prefix & suffix"

e.g. what is the probability of

$$\frac{\text{"major" ACHIEVEMENT "attained"}}{\text{prefix} \quad \text{suffix}}$$

Why is all of this statistical exercise required?

If we wish to stop at merely deciphering a resume, then I don't think we need to go through this.

For more "deciphering," all we need is to Create a KNOWLEDGE-BASE of

Skills
Knowledge
Attitudes
Attributes
Industries
Companies
Functions
Edu. Qualifications
Products / Services
Names
etc etc.

Having Created the knowledge-base, simply scan a bio-data, recognise words, compare with the words contained in the knowledge-base, find CORRESPONDENCE/EQUIVALENCE and allot/file each scanned word into respective "fields" against each PEN (Permanent Executive No).

PRESTO!

You have dissected & Stored the MAN in appropriate boxes.

Our EDS has these "boxes". Problem is manual data-entry. The D/E operator,

Searches appropriate "word" from appropriate "EDS Box" and transfers to appropriate Screen.

$$\rightarrow \quad \text{To eliminate this manual (time-consuming operation) we need ARDIS.}$$

We already have a DATA-BASE of 6500 words.

All we need to do, is to write down against each word, whether

it is a skill
attribute

Knowledge
Edu.
Product
Company
Location
Industry
Function
etc. etc.

The moment we do this what was a mere "data-base" becomes a "KNOWLEDGE-BASE" ready to serve as a "COMPARATOR".

And as each new bio-data is scanned, it will throw-up words for which there is no "clue". Each Such new word will have to be manually "categorised" and added to the knowledge-base.

Then what is the advantage of calculating for each word

each prefix
each suffix
each phrase
each sentence

its probability of occurrence?

The advantages are:

#1 - Detect "unlikely prefix/suffix"

Suppose ARDIS detects

"Manor Achievement"

ARDIS detects that the probability of

"Manor" as prefix to "Achievement" is NIL
"Minor" " " " is $0.0009$ (say nil)

hence the correct prefix has to be

"Major (and not "Manor") for which the probability is, say, $0.4056$.

#2 ARDIS detects

Mr. HANOVAR

It recognises this as a Spelling mistake and Corrects automatically to

Mr. HONAVAR

It reads.

Place of Birth: KOLHAPURE

It recognises it as "KOLHAPUR"

or Vice-Versa, if it says my name is: KOLHAPUR

# 3

Today, while scanning (using OCR), when a mistake is detected, it gets highlighted on the screen or an asterisk/underline starts blinking.

This draws the attention of the operator who manually corrects the "mistake" after consulting a dictionary or his own knowledge-base.

Once ARDIS has calculated the probabilities of lakhs of words and even the probabilities of their "most likely sequence of occurrences", then, hopefully the OCR can self-correct any word or phrase without operator intervention.

So the Scanning accuracy of OCR should eventually become 100% - and not 75% / 85% as at present.

# 4

Eventually, we want that

a bio-data IS scanned

and automatically $\downarrow$

reconstitutes itself into our Converted BIO DATA FORMAT.

This is the concept of ARGIS (Automatic resume generating intelligence Software).6

Here again the idea is to eliminate the manual data-entry of the entire bio-data - our ultimate goal.7

But ARGIS is not possible without first installing ARDIS and that too with the calculation of the "probability of occurrence" as the main feature of the software.8

By studying & memorising & calculating the "probabilities of occurrences" of lakhs of words / phrases / sentences, ARDIS a9ctually learns english grammar through "frequency of usage".

And it is this KNOWLEDGE-BASE which enable ARGIS to reconstitute a bio-data (in our format) in a GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT WAY.

1-12-96.