Grant: Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 2
Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology
$60,000.00
Development of automated classifier and field-specific interface platform for accessing up-to-date global mobility compliance requirements
FY 2021-22
Summary
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.
Program
Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 2
Location
Ontario, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
As published
Application id
566928-2021
Name nom
Gopalasingam, Atani
Department département
Markham Campus
Organization id
1803
Institution établissement
Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology
Province en
Ontario
Province fr
Ontario
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2021
Competition year année de concours
2021
Award amount
60000
Program id
CARD2
Program name en
Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 2
Program name fr
Subventions de recherche et développement appliquée - niveau 2
Group en
Research partnerships programs
Group fr
Programmes de partenariat
Committee code
1561
Committee name en
Applied Research and Development Grants
Committee name fr
Subventions de recherche et développement appliquée
Area of application code
804
Area of application group en
Information and communication services
Area of application group fr
Services d'information et de télécommunications
Area of application en
Communication systems and services (planning, organization, services)
Area of application fr
Systèmes et services de communications (planification, organisation et services)
Research subject code
2801
Research subject group en
Artificial intelligence
Research subject group fr
Intelligence artificielle
Research subject en
Natural language and speech understanding
Research subject fr
Langage naturel et reconnaissance de la parole
Installment
inst:1
Partie
1
Nb partie
1
Application title
Development of automated classifier and field-specific interface platform for accessing up-to-date
global mobility compliance requirements
Keyword
NSERC
Application summary
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.
