I am reminded of a conversation with the CIO/CTO of an Au Pair matching service.
Their process at that time (2008) was to have a set of employees who were matchmakers. They would read hundreds/thousands of family requests and requirements and then hundreds/thousands of applications of the young people from various countries around the world. They would match them with prosperous US families that were looking for an au pair.
As he explained the process I began brainstorming ways to use NLP and earlier versions statistical analysis, machine learning or maybe genetic algorithms to take over or at least assist in what was a very manual process by those matchmaker employees.
He left for a different job not too long after and we never did more than a bit of brainstorming. And, I suspect that this matching is still being done largely through human reading and thinking including how humans "read between the lines" which can sometimes be so accurate and other times just reveal the biases of the matchmaker.
However, thinking about those kind of person to person compatibility and matching problems led me to reserve the domain name trupeer.me - the idea of helping professional career people find their tru peers in industry
Their process at that time (2008) was to have a set of employees who were matchmakers. They would read hundreds/thousands of family requests and requirements and then hundreds/thousands of applications of the young people from various countries around the world. They would match them with prosperous US families that were looking for an au pair.
As he explained the process I began brainstorming ways to use NLP and earlier versions statistical analysis, machine learning or maybe genetic algorithms to take over or at least assist in what was a very manual process by those matchmaker employees.
He left for a different job not too long after and we never did more than a bit of brainstorming. And, I suspect that this matching is still being done largely through human reading and thinking including how humans "read between the lines" which can sometimes be so accurate and other times just reveal the biases of the matchmaker.
However, thinking about those kind of person to person compatibility and matching problems led me to reserve the domain name trupeer.me - the idea of helping professional career people find their tru peers in industry