Natural Language Processing for Human Resources: A Survey

Naoki Otani, Nikita Bhutani, Estevam Hruschka


Abstract
Advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have the potential to transform HR processes, from recruitment to employee management. While recent breakthroughs in NLP have generated significant interest in its industrial applications, a comprehensive overview of how NLP can be applied across HR activities is still lacking. This paper discovers opportunities for researchers and practitioners to harness NLP’s transformative potential in this domain. We analyze key fundamental tasks such as information extraction and text classification, and their roles in downstream applications like recommendation and language generation, while also discussing ethical concerns. Additionally, we identify gaps in current research and encourage future work to explore holistic approaches for achieving broader objectives in this field.
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2025.naacl-industry.47
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Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 3: Industry Track)
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April
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2025
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Weizhu Chen, Yi Yang, Mohammad Kachuee, Xue-Yong Fu
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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583–597
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Naoki Otani, Nikita Bhutani, and Estevam Hruschka. 2025. Natural Language Processing for Human Resources: A Survey. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 3: Industry Track), pages 583–597, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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