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

加拿大员工重新安置委员会(CERC)是一个成员组织，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来服务于重新安置的家庭。自上一个项目完成以来，新冠肺炎疫情给拥有全球流动员工队伍的组织带来了巨大的挑战，特别是在确保员工的健康和安全方面。目前还没有一个易于获取、可靠的信息库，涵盖了全球流动合规的关键领域。这些信息通过白皮书、政府网站、旅行建议、移民公司等分发，并由公司在员工需要旅行时根据需要收集。在此项目中，Seneca和CERC正在合作开发Web门户和自动分类器，以向公司提供员工重新安置的最新合规和旅行信息，并由IBM高级研究中心的合作者提供其他研究专业知识。这个门户网站将提供对政府监管网站的文件和链接的知识库的访问，包括在这些监管网站发生变化时自动发出警报。信息储存库将通过建立一个智能信息系统来保持最新状态，该系统将新发布的文件纳入自动文件分类器，以便用相关的全球流动合规领域标记文件，并将这些文件并入数据储存库。总而言之，这些内容将为加拿大公司和CERC成员提供一种独特的机制，以获取与全球流动性有关的最新信息，节省时间、金钱，并减少员工在不同国家之间调动的困难。

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.