NLP Workforce Skill Extraction from Unstructured Text

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Solution Overview

Problem

Organizations face challenges in understanding and optimizing workforce productivity due to limitations in capturing and analyzing the value of natural language documents, as existing technologies struggle to accurately decompose and compare the unique insights from diverse business leaders, leading to a lack of strategic recommendations.

Innovation Solution

A microprocessor executable method that generates concept vector representations of entities from natural language text, builds a graph of relatedness scores, and uses machine learning models to transform unstructured text into structured data, enabling advanced processing and optimization of workforce talent and skill analysis.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If psychometric and skill-based testing are used to solve workforce performance issues, then measurement precision is improved, but device complexity and implementation scalability worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveworkforce performance measurementVSAvoidtesting implementation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces traditional mechanical psychometric and skill-based testing systems with an automated natural language processing system. The system uses machine learning models to analyze text documents, extract skill and capability information, and generate workforce assessments automatically, eliminating the need for complex manual testing procedures while maintaining measurement precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Quantity of substance

If traditional digital transformation practices are used to aggregate organizational data, then data quantity increases, but information value and strategic insight capability worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedigital data volumeVSAvoidstrategic insight value
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts valuable skill and capability information from large volumes of unstructured natural language documents using natural language processing. The system identifies and extracts relevant entities, skills, and capabilities from text sources such as resumes, performance reviews, and project documents, converting unstructured data into structured, actionable workforce intelligence that provides strategic insights.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transforms unstructured text data into structured vector representations and graphical models, changing the parameter state of the data from unstructured text to quantifiable skill profiles. This transformation enables the system to analyze workforce capabilities, identify skill gaps, and generate strategic recommendations by converting qualitative text information into measurable parameters.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Loss of information

If existing technologies are used to capture and compare business leaders' unique opinions, then data collection capability is improved, but understanding and strategic recommendation capability worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation capture capabilityVSAvoidstrategic insight accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces natural language processing and machine learning models as intermediaries between raw text data and strategic insights. These intermediaries analyze the semantic content of business leaders' opinions and perspectives, extract relevant skill and capability information, and translate unstructured text into structured workforce intelligence that enables accurate strategic recommendations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11048879B2Systems and methods to determine and utilize semantic relatedness between multiple natural language sources to determine strengths and weaknesses
Publication Date: 2021.06.29 VETTD INC
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AI summary

A microprocessor executable method transforms unstructured natural language texts by way of a preprocessing pipeline into a structured data representation of the entities described in the original text. The structured data representation is conducive to further processing by machine methods. The transformation process is learned by a machine learned model trained to identify relevant text segments and disregard irrelevant text segments The resulting structured data representation is refined to more accurately represent the respective entities.