This document provides an overview of the ELISE smart search and matching solution. It can be used for employment matching to help job seekers find suitable jobs and employers find qualified candidates. It replicates data from other databases and uses techniques like semantic search, fuzzy matching, and proximity matching to return relevant results. The solution is designed to handle large volumes of structured and unstructured data across multiple languages and supports integration with other systems through APIs.

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

13. Finish !