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Skills Similarity Score

Skills Similarity Score🔗︎

HTTP Verb Path
POST /v10/ontology/skills-similarity-score

Determines how closely related one set of skills is to another. The service defines closely related skills such that knowing a skill either implies knowledge about another skill, or should make it considerably easier to acquire knowledge about that skill.

Info

Scope of use🔗︎

The purpose of this endpoint is to provide insights or enrich data records using our Ontology. You may store the parts of the response that are relevant to individual data records - such as candidate or employee profiles - within these records. It is not permitted to cache, store, or utilize responses from this endpoint for the purpose of limiting request volume, or to create replicas or derivatives of the Service and the Ontology.

Request Body🔗︎

SkillsA 🔗︎ object[] required

SkillsA🔗︎

A set of skills to score against the other set of skills. The list can contain up to 50 skills.


SkillsA properties

Id 🔗︎ string required

Id🔗︎

The ID of the skill in the skills taxonomy.

Score 🔗︎ float

Score🔗︎

The weight that will be applied to the skill. Must be in the range [0 - 1]. These values are relative, so SkillA.Score = 0.2; SkillB.Score = 0.4; is equivalent to SkillA.Score = 0.5; SkillB.Score = 1.0;.

SkillsB 🔗︎ object[] required

SkillsB🔗︎

A set of skills to score against the other set of skills. The list can contain up to 50 skills.


SkillsB properties

Id 🔗︎ string required

Id🔗︎

The ID of the skill in the skills taxonomy.

Score 🔗︎ float

Score🔗︎

The weight that will be applied to the skill. Must be in the range [0 - 1]. These values are relative, so SkillA.Score = 0.2; SkillB.Score = 0.4; is equivalent to SkillA.Score = 0.5; SkillB.Score = 1.0;.

Sample JSON
{
  "SkillsA": [
    {
      "Id": "",
      "Score": 0.0
    }
  ],
  "SkillsB": [
    {
      "Id": "",
      "Score": 0.0
    }
  ]
}

Response Body🔗︎

Info 🔗︎ object

Info🔗︎

Information explaining the outcome of the transaction.


Info properties

Code 🔗︎ string

Code🔗︎

Code Description
Success Successful transaction
MissingParameter A required parameter wasn't provided
InvalidParameter A parameter was incorrectly specified
AuthenticationError An error occurred with the credentials provided
Message 🔗︎ string

Message🔗︎

This message further describes the code providing additional detail.

TransactionId 🔗︎ string

TransactionId🔗︎

The (GUID) id for a specific API transaction. Use this when contacting support@textkernel.com about issues.

EngineVersion 🔗︎ string

EngineVersion🔗︎

The version of the parsing/matching engine running under-the-hood.

ApiVersion 🔗︎ string

ApiVersion🔗︎

The version of the API.

TotalElapsedMilliseconds 🔗︎ integer

TotalElapsedMilliseconds🔗︎

How long the transaction took on Textkernel's server, in milliseconds. If the transaction takes longer to complete on the client side, that extra duration is solely network latency.

TransactionCost 🔗︎ decimal

TransactionCost🔗︎

How many credits the transaction costs.How many credits the transaction costs.

CustomerDetails 🔗︎ object

CustomerDetails🔗︎

Information about the customer who made the API call.


CustomerDetails properties

AccountId 🔗︎ string

AccountId🔗︎

The AccountId for the account.

Name 🔗︎ string

Name🔗︎

The customer name on the account.

IPAddress 🔗︎ string

IPAddress🔗︎

The client IP Address where the API call originated.

Region 🔗︎ string

Region🔗︎

The region for the account, also known as the 'Data Center'.

CreditsRemaining 🔗︎ decimal

CreditsRemaining🔗︎

The number of credits remaining to be used by the account.

CreditsUsed 🔗︎ decimal

CreditsUsed🔗︎

The number of credits used by the account.

MaximumConcurrentRequests 🔗︎ integer

MaximumConcurrentRequests🔗︎

The number of requests that can be made at one time. If using sub-accounts, this is the maximum number of concurent requests across all accounts, not just this single sub-account.

ExpirationDate 🔗︎ date

ExpirationDate🔗︎

The date that the current credits expire.

Value 🔗︎ object

Value🔗︎

Contains response data for the transaction.


Value properties

SimilarityScore 🔗︎ float

SimilarityScore🔗︎

A score from [0 - 1] representing how closely related skill set A and skill set B are, based on the relations between skills.

Sample JSON
{
  "Info": {
    "Code": "string",
    "Message": "string",
    "TransactionId": "string",
    "EngineVersion": "string",
    "ApiVersion": "string",
    "TotalElapsedMilliseconds": 0,
    "TransactionCost": 0,
    "CustomerDetails": {
      "AccountId": "string",
      "Name": "string",
      "IPAddress": "string",
      "Region": "string",
      "CreditsRemaining": 0,
      "CreditsUsed": 0,
      "ExpirationDate": "2021-12-31",
      "MaximumConcurrentRequests": 0
    }
  },
  "Value": {
    "SimilarityScore": 0.0
  }
}