Automatic definition of engineer archetypes: A text mining approachShow others and affiliations
2023 (English)In: Computers in industry (Print), ISSN 0166-3615, E-ISSN 1872-6194, Vol. 152, article id 103996Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
With the rapid and continuous advancements in technology, as well as the constantly evolving competences required in the field of engineering, there is a critical need for the harmonization and unification of engineering professional figures or archetypes. The current limitations in tymely defining and updating engineers' archetypes are attributed to the absence of a structured and automated approach for processing educational and occupational data sources that evolve over time. This study aims to enhance the definition of professional figures in engineering by automating archetype definitions through text mining and adopting a more objective and structured methodology based on topic modeling. This will expand the use of archetypes as a common language, bridging the gap between educational and occupational frameworks by providing a unified and up-to-date engineering professional figure tailored to a specific period, specialization type, and level. We validate the automatically defined industrial engineer archetype against our previously manually defined profile.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier BV , 2023. Vol. 152, article id 103996
Keywords [en]
Archetype, Engineering, Industry 4.0, Latent dirichlet allocation, Professional profile, Text mining
National Category
Software Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-335258DOI: 10.1016/j.compind.2023.103996ISI: 001059423600001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85167433015OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-335258DiVA, id: diva2:1793995
Note
QC 20230904
2023-09-042023-09-042023-09-22Bibliographically approved