Development of automated classifier and field-specific interface platform for accessing up-to-date global mobility compliance requirements

加拿大员工搬迁委员会（CERC）是一个会员制组织，为成员提供领导、服务和帮助，使他们能够通过解决影响国内和国际劳动力流动的问题，为搬迁家庭提供服务。在上一个项目中，CERC和塞内卡商学院为全球移动合规制定了一个全面的最佳实践框架，自该项目完成以来，COVID-19大流行给拥有全球移动员工的组织带来了重大挑战，特别是在确保员工健康和安全方面。目前还没有一个单一的存储库，可以轻松访问、可靠地涵盖全球移动合规的关键领域。这些信息通过白皮书、政府网站、旅行咨询、移民公司等渠道分发，当员工需要旅行时，公司会根据需要收集这些信息。在这个项目中，Seneca和CERC正在合作开发一个门户网站和自动分类器，为公司提供最新的合规信息和员工搬迁的旅行信息，IBM高级研究中心的合作者提供了额外的研究专业知识。该门户网站将提供访问文件知识库和链接到政府监管网站，包括自动警报，如果这些监管网站有变化。通过创建智能信息系统，信息存储库将保持最新状态，该系统将新发布的文档引入自动文档分类器，用相关的全球移动性合规区域标记文档，并将这些文档合并到数据存储库中。这些部分将为加拿大公司和CERC成员提供一种独特的机制，以获取有关全球流动的最新信息，节省时间和金钱，并减少在国家之间调动员工的困难。

The Canadian Employee Relocation Council (CERC) is a membership organization who provides leadership, services and assistance to members enabling them to serve relocated families by addressing issues that impact workforce mobility both domestically and internationally. Since the completion of the previous project, inwhich CERC and Seneca's Faculty of Business developed a comprehensive framework for best practices for global mobility compliance, the COVID-19 pandemic has created significant challenges for organizations that have a globally mobile workforce, especially around the need to ensure the health and safety of employees.There is currently no one single repository of easily accessible, reliable information that encompasses key areasof global mobility compliance. This information is distributed over white papers, government websites, travel advisories, immigration firms, etc., and is gathered by companies as needed when an employee needs to travel.For this project, Seneca and CERC are collaborating to develop a web portal and automated classifier toprovide companies with up-to-date compliance and travel information for employee relocation, with additional research expertise provided by a collaborator at the IBM Center for Advanced Studies. This web portal willprovide access to a knowledge-base of documents and links to government regulatory websites, includingautomated alerts if there are changes to these regulatory websites. The repository of information will be kept upto date by the creation of an intelligent information system that brings in newly published documents into an automated document classifier to tag documents with the relevant global mobility compliance areas andincorporates these documents into the data repository. Together, these pieces will provide Canadian companies and CERC members with a unique mechanism to access recent information relating to global mobility, saving time, money, and reducing difficulty in relocating employees between countries.