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Daniel Kudenko, L3S

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Dr. Daniel Kudenko is a research group leader at the L3S ResearchCenter, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. Before that he was amember of the Computer Science faculty at the University of York, agroup head at JetBrains Research and professor at the Saint PetersburgNational Research Academic University of the Russian Academy ofSciences. His research interests include machine (specificallyreinforcement) learning, multi-agent systems, user modeling, andartificial intelligence for games and interactive entertainment. Withinthese areas, he published more than 130 peer-reviewed papers.

Ivana Marenzi, L3S

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Ivana Marenzi, PhD (F), is senior researcher at the L3S Research Centerof the University of Hannover, Germany. Throughout her career she hasspecialised in the relationship between technology and communication;her main area of research in Technology Enhanced Learning includes thesupport of collaborative and lifelong learning.

Petanux GmbH (PTNX)

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PTNX is the German data science and business analytics company located in Bonn. Our core competencies lie in the areas of research and development within smart solutions and software systems, project management and solutions for data science and business analytics areas. Human resources at Petanux have extensive experience in setting up research projects, developing innovative ideas, running successful project management and exploiting research results into the market. One of the big highlights of the Petanux is that all staff members have worked in/collaborated with different reputable and well-known research groups and companies in the frame of funded (European and German)…

Engineering Ingegneria Informatica (ENG)

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Engineering Group is a global player in the digital transformation sector, with a complete offer of business integration, application and infrastructure outsourcing, innovative solutions and strategic consultancy. The Group manages IT initiatives in over 20 countries with projects in Digital Finance, Smart Government, Manufacturing & Retail, Smart Energy & Utilities, Digital Citizenship, Digital Telco & Multimedia, supported by cross-business unit centers of competence and by the Research and Innovation Department which has the dual role of promoting research on software at an international level and transferring innovation to the production cycle of the business structures. The Group operates in the…

Institute of Economic Research (IER SAS)

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The Institute of Economic Research (IER SAS) is one of the main suppliers of national, policy relevant research in Slovakia. It is also active at the European level. The Institute is a member of the European Network of Economic Policy Research Institutes (ENEPRI). Under this network, IER SAS has participated in several 7FP and Horizon 2020 projects. Most of the past projects were thematically linked to labour supply analysis, anticipation and forecasting. IER SAS is also well networked in focused expert networks relevant from the perspective of the project; such as the SkillsNet administered by CEDEFOP, the European Expert Network…

Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH)

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The Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH) is one of the largest universities in Niedersachsen with about 29,000 students. The subject spectrum reaches from the natural sciences and engineering over humanities and social sciences to economics and law. The L3S Research Center is a joint research institute of several universities in Lower Saxony, Germany, associated with LUH. It includes about 80 employees and its total budget in 2017 amounted to about 8 million Euros, with about ¾ of the budget being third party funding from projects funded by the European Commission, German Research Foundation (DFG), German federal state governments or governmental institutions…

IO5: JKB Assessment and Reporting

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This Intellectual Output is the final IO of the DISKOW project and covers the activities carried out to assess the final prototype of the Job Knowledge Base platform. The first chapter is devoted to the analysis of the online job vacancies in the labour market, followed by the second chapter, which describes the JKB prototype as a final outcome of the project. The third and fourth chapter are focused on the assessment activities. To assess the accuracy of the data extraction, a sample of random job postings was selected and the extracted data were manually compared with the original text…

IO4: Job Knowledge Base (JKB)

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Job Knowledge Base (JKB) hosts jobs data collected from the web (as result of IO3). The JKB is based on the KnowAge open source data platform (promoted by ENG) and benefited from the Job Knowledge Analysis Engine and Visualization APIs provided as libraries in the IO3. This IO is a software development activity and formed the complete and final project software prototype. This task started from the project beginning and was finished at the end of the project, with an alpha release at M12 and a fully fledged Beta at M18. Start date of this IO: 01.09.2018 End date of this IO: 31.08.2021…

IO3: Job Knowledge Analysis Engine and Visualization Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)

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This IO covers development of methods for extracting job-related information from websites. The goal of tasks in the frame of this IO is to analyze the content of job postings, other job-related textual data and information about job seekers, to detect topics within them and to feed into the JKB. This has multiple applications: (1) Grouping similar job openings (2) Finding duplicate job openings (3) Automatically generating a hierarchical categorization of jobs (4) Matching job seeker skills to job openings. In addition, this IO aimed at extending multiple visualization methods for the various prediction results and search tasks developed throughout…

IO2: Online Data Sources for the European Labor Market

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IO2 report is broadly addressing two main tasks of the DISKOW project: identification of potential data sources and evaluating them with the proposed schema of IO1. Hence, the first part of the report mostly focused on the identification and classification of different online data sources. This report has classified the job portals into three categories: global job portals, European job portals, and local country-specific job portals. This report has explored multiple existing job portals. Next, this report has tried to identify the most relevant and accessible data sources for developing JKB. Subsequently, DISKOW project partners are contacting these job portals…