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 Volume 6, Issue 4 (April 2019), Pages: 1-8

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Intelligent decision support system for CV evaluation based on natural language processing

 Author(s): Hejab Alfawareh 1, *, Shaidah Jusoh 1, 2

 Affiliation(s):

 1Faculty of Computing and IT, Northern Border University, Arar, Saudi Arabia
 2King Hussein School of Computing Sciences, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Amman, Jordan

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5666-0580

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2019.04.001

 Abstract:

A curriculum vitae (CV) has become one of the most important documents for applying or hiring any job positions. The CV document is normally assessed by a hiring committee based on some predefined criteria. However, the assessment process is lengthy and fraught with human-engendered bias. To the best of our knowledge, none tool that is able to read and filter CV documents which are presented in texts form had been introduced. The purpose of this research is to create a tool that is able to screen and filter hundreds of CVs automatically. This paper proposed an approach based on natural language techniques to develop the tool. The tool can be considered as a decision support system (DSS) in recruiting new employees. One hundred seventy-eight CV documents were used to test the proposed approach. Obtained results suggest that the proposed approach is successful. 

 © 2019 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Intelligent decision support system, Natural language processing, CV recommendation system, Human resource management, CV evaluation

 Article History: Received 8 October 2018, Received in revised form 1 February 2019, Accepted 2 February 2019

 Acknowledgement:

This research was funded by Northern Border University, Saudi Arabia, grant number 5757/CIT /2016/F for the project entitled "Intelligent Decision Support System for Hiring Academic Staff based on Natural Language Processing".

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 Conflict of interest:  The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

 Citation:

 Alfawareh H and Jusoh S (2019). Intelligent decision support system for CV evaluation based on natural language processing. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 6(4): 1-8

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