If you want to go beyond basic keyword-extraction stuff (but still in a
narrow-AI context), you'll want to start partial-parsing ("chunk parsing")
the text in the resume' ... so look at the "natural language information
extraction" and "semantic relation extraction" literature, and there are
probably even some papers related specifically to resumes there-- Ben G On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Emahn Novid via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Singularity and AGI readers, > > I'd like to give you guys an update on what's happened since our last > round of emails, and to ask for some help (more involved this time). > > You may remember me from an email thread I started about a year ago > entitled,*"Student here, please advise."* > link to the archive: > > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04433.html > <https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04433.html> > > > At that time, I was asking for advice on which university major to pursue, > and what I can do to help further the advancement of AI. I received a > surprising amount of helpful suggestions from many members of this > community, including *Jan Klauck, Ben Goertzel, Mike Archbold, Matt > Mahoney, Sergio Donal, and Anastasios Tsiolakidis.* > > I wrote this email in part to thank all of you for giving me the guidance > and inspiration to follow through with what I dreamed of doing ever since I > read the Cosmist Manifesto. > > Ever since then, I've worked a lot on improving my programming skills. > I've learned Java, Python, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Javascript/jQuery, > HTML/CSS, and C++. > > This summer I secured a job as the lead developer at a small start up > company - focused on developing a form of narrow AI - with the purpose of > helping employers sort and rank resumes. > > The software we developed reads through resumes and ranks the applicants > based on individual criteria such as business, software, and marketing > experience. We released the beta version mid August (a few weeks ago), and > one corporation has already signed on with us! > > *Here's where I need your help:* > > The way our algorithm works is admittedly pathetic ... we feed it a set of > hundreds of terms and phrases relevant to a particular criteria, and after > some basic word fuzzing, the program searches through the resumes, and > awards points based on the occurrence of matching terms. It then adjusts > the overall ranking of applicants using "weights" assigned by the recruiter > with a slider for each criteria. The whole application is written in Ruby > within the Rails framework and hosted on heroku. > > Here's what part of the UI looks like: > [image: Inline image 1] > > I'm looking for some guidance on how to implement actual AI principles > like neural networks to improve the ranking process. I have a lot left to > learn as far as programming anything resembling AI goes, and I know there > is a wide breadth of information on the topic. *But the reason I'm coming > to you guys first before diving into the topic literature on my own is to > hopefully get some pointers on what concepts, methods, and/or > implementations of AI to focus on.* > > I would really appreciate any specific advice on how to start implementing > the exact type of AI I'm looking for. *What set of concepts and tools in > the AI toolkit do you guys think would be most relevant to the problem I'm > trying to solve? *Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > > That's all for now... and as for my major, I finally chose to go with > Cognitive Science with a focus in computation. I'll be transferring to a > UC(University of California) next fall, hopefully it'll be UCLA. > > Thanks again for the help fellow AGI'ers. I hope we can make a lot of > progress toward AGI in the near future and maybe even get close to > singularity!! :D Needless to say, I'm super excited to be a part of it all. > > > Regards, > Emahn > > > > > > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/19237892-5029d625> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "In an insane world, the sane man must appear to be insane". -- Capt. James T. Kirk "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery / None but ourselves can free our minds" -- Robert Nesta Marley ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
