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

加拿大雇员搬迁理事会是一个成员组织，向成员提供领导、服务和援助，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服务。CERC和Seneca商学院在上一个项目中为全球移动合规的最佳实践制定了一个全面的框架，自该项目完成以来，COVID-19大流行为拥有全球移动的员工队伍的组织带来了重大挑战，特别是围绕确保员工健康和安全的需求。目前没有一个单一的易于访问、包含全球移动合规性关键领域的可靠信息。这些信息通过白色报纸、政府网站、旅游咨询公司、移民公司等传播，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，为公司提供最新的员工搬迁合规和旅行信息，IBM高级研究中心的合作者提供了额外的研究专业知识。该门户网站将提供对文件知识库的访问，并链接到政府监管网站，包括在这些监管网站发生变化时自动发出警报。将通过建立一个智能信息系统来更新信息储存库，该系统将新发布的文件输入自动文件分类器，用相关的全球流动合规领域标记文件，并将这些文件纳入数据储存库。这些文件将为加拿大公司和CERC成员提供一个独特的机制，以获取与全球流动性有关的最新信息，节省时间，金钱，并减少在国家之间重新安置员工的困难。

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.