Challenges and Opportunities of NLP for HR Applications: A Discussion Paper

Over the course of the recent decade, tremendous progress has been made in the areas of machine learning and natural language processing, which opened up vast areas of potential application use cases, including hiring and human resource management. We review the use cases for text analytics in the realm of human resources/personnel management, including actually realized as well as potential but not yet implemented ones, and we analyze the opportunities and risks of these.