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1. WCC ELISE
SMART SEARCH AND MATCHING
By Ramez Ibrahim AL Fayez

2. Focus on:
u Employment Matching
u Public Employment Services
u Staffing
u Corporate HR
u Identity Matching
u Border Security
u Public safety
u National ID & Entitlement
WCC Wins Top Tier Vendor Position at Mitre Multi-cultural Name Matching Challenge

3. Features
u Designed to improve search results from databases.
u Main implementations have been in matching resumes to job openings, and biometric
identification.
u Comes with application programming interfaces that make integration simple, including
Java, .NET, BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, more.
u Replicates the data from your databases into its own optimized system for use by your match-
enabled applications.
u Data security can be configured by user level or password access.
u Set up realtime synchronization, near-time synchronization (batch synchronization) or identify
events that will trigger a synchronization process.
u Scales from to millions of documents across multiple servers. Components can be distributed
redundantly over multiple servers or data centers.

4. Features
u Bi-directional searching adjusts queries to structured data.
u Converts terms based on the domain vocabulary.
u Weights criteria based on importance of the match.
u Fuzzy search returns a ranked list of the relevant hits from best fit to least, even if there's no exact
match.
u Sub-second response times across databases containing millions of records.
u Performance is linearly scalable.
u Administrators can add, change, or remove properties without affecting system availability.
u Includes trace manager and data analyzer tools that track most common queries, most-used
features, more.

5. ELISE solution overview

6. Employment Matching
u It can help job seeker to find the job
that fits his qualification
u It can help organization to find people
who can fit a vacancy
u Other features
u help job seekers identify training that
would advance their careers
u help job seekers explore an alternative
career

7. Data
u Data are replicated to ELISE database allowing direct presentation
of full result details from ELISE without the need of a separate
database or separate database access
u Parses unstructured information to extract data for focused
matching
u Support different languages (Arabic too)
u Support unstructured data in biometric form

8. Indexing
u Word Index
u Phonetic Index
u De-compound Index

9. Search
u Data can be structured or unstructured
u Matching in a bi-directional way
u Use semantic and fuzzy search
u Also support Boolean queries
u Search for similar (Job, candidate, etc..)

10. Ranking and Scoring
u Searches are performed in ELISE by combining multiple matching algorithms
with rankings and weightings to return the best result, referred to as Proximity
Matching
u It explains how a certain match result so user can tweak the match
configuration at real-time. The matching scores can be viewed and readjusted
through the detail-match function of ELISE
u Intelligent Fusion: Combine two algorithms in a single search, so that the fastest
algorithm narrows the possible results and then the more accurate algorithm is
applied to the shorter result set. The end result being both a fast and accurate
result set.
u Weighted Criteria - Importance can be pre-defined or set at query time
u Gliding Scales - Flexible numeric ranges to find perfect fit and near fit values
u Word/Concept Affinities - Scores defined for synonyms, related concepts,
nicknames, etc.

11. Integration
u Has full set of API’s that allow other system to:
u Search
u guided navigation
u content spotlighting
u analytics and security filters

12. Scalability
u can perform millions of matches
per second
u Uses a grid techniques which helps
companies leverage their industry
standard hardware and enhances
scalability.
u Can be redundant over multiple
servers or data centers

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