Supervisor’s Signature:
A Preliminary Study on Text Mining-Based Human Resource Allocation in a Construction
Project
Thausif Ul Alam (Roll : 1623033 )
Building Engineering & Construction Management
Major: Construction Management
INTRODUCTION
This study is conducted to ascertain the
eligibility and efficiency of applying the text-
mining method to long descriptive résumés to
resolve the problems occurred during the
allocation of human resources (HR) in
construction organizations. Most HR
management (HRM) systems only allow HR
managers to search for appropriate engineers or
managers for a new project based on previous
team names or the names of project that the
engineers/managers worked on, job titles,
durations of each project, etc whereas how
candidates perform on a new project greatly
differs depending on the specific tasks that each
candidate performed for previous projects and
the experience and skills that they gained
through these tasks. This study has developed
an improved HR solution for finding the best
person for a job and for maintaining the records
of project staff by collecting and analyzing long
sentence-based job descriptions related to the
construction industry using a text-mining
method
OBJECTIVES
The objectives of this study are as follows:
 The main objective is to use text mining to
use text mining to efficiently and effectively
analyze CV of candidates for allocating
positions.
 Using long descriptive CV for more
accuracy.
 Minimization of time consumption.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The text-mining tool employed for this study
was KNIME. 9 functional nodes were used.
Basic requirements for the position are to be
set. Data divided into two categories i.e. In-
house & External. The natural languages
consists of long descriptive sentences of CV are
modified and refined by the flow, such as
‘input’ , ‘phrasing’ , ‘filtering’ , ‘collecting’ ,
‘matching’, and ‘showing result’.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Six résumés of different candidates who were
willing to be assigned a construction manager
construction manager (CMr) position were
collected. Match is determined based on no. of
distance and its weight. Two important indices
were extracted for assessment, one was the
number of matched strings and the other was
the distance between each string. The distance
indicated the accuracy of two matched
keywords; for instance, ‘0’ was perfectly
coincidental and ‘1’ showed a small, but
ignorable difference
Score = W0 ⅹ n(D0) + W1 ⅹ n(D1),
where
D0(Distance 0) has weight W0 = 1,
D1(Distance 1) has weight W1 = 0.9, n(D0):
number of DO, and n(D1): number of D1.
Table 1: Text mining result.
Candidate Main
Match Result Score
sample Experience
A QM 3D0xW0+0D1XW1=3.0
B RM 2D0xW0+2D1xW1=3.8
C QM & CM 2D0xW0+3D1xW1=4.7
D CM 3D0xW0+2D1xW1=4.8
E CM 4D0xW0+1D1xW1=4.9
F CM 6D0xW0+2D1xW1=7.8
In terms of the validation rule we pick F who
was also picked by HR manually taking much
more time.So,we can conclude that textmining
is a very helpful tool for HRM in construction
projects in a shorter time.
REFERENCES
[1]A. Ekholm, S. Fridqvist, A conceptual
framework for classification of construction
works, Electronic Journal of Information
Technology in Construction, 1 (1996) 1-25.
[5]S. Strohmeier, F. Piazza, Domain driven
data mining in HRM: A review of current
research, Expert Systems with Applications,
40 (2013) 2410-2420.