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Version 9.0.0
May 18, 2018
Upgrade Path
- If you're using a parser configuration string, regenerate your string in the new human-readable Name=Value pair format. Details on this new configuration string, and a conversion tool are documented here.
- Parse the Sample.doc file (as well as some of your own documents) in the current version you use, and with 9.0 using our Demo Application and save those results to disk.
- Use a document comparison tool to evaluate the differences, specifically the new fields. There is a lot of new metadata provided that could be of high value to integrate in your application. These new fields are detailed below in the New Features section. For a document comparison tool, we really like Beyond Compare.
- Remap your API calls to the new 9.0 methods as described in the API Documentation, make the desired changes to your implementation to leverage the new metadata, change the URL to point to version 9.0, and enjoy.
New Features
Added an endpoint to scrub the Personally Identifiable Information from a Resume/CV. More information can be found in the REST API documentation.
Breaking Changes
Skills
We deprecated the SkillsStyle property because we now have a single canonical way and place to output skills.
Skills are now output only in the resume's UserArea, or job's SkillsTaxonomyOutput. The output is extremely easy to read and understand from both a human and programmatic standpoint. The output taxonomies are sorted in descending order of importance, and skills are alphabetical within the subtaxonomies, and child skills are nested within parent skills.
Also, importantly, we now use the English skills list for non-English skills parsing in addition to the detected language's built-in skills list. This will generally result in more skills being found, with very few false cognates.
DO NOT use/rely on the skill Ids that are output. We reserve the right to modify skill names and to preserve the skill Id when we do so. In some cases, we append a language code to skill Ids so that we can output them alongside another translation of that skill with the same Id. If you are relying on skill Ids, stop!
NOTE FOR CUSTOM SKILLS LISTS: When developing your custom skills lists, you must avoid using ANY Sovren taxonomy or skill Ids. The only way to be certain of that is to prepend or append an alphabetical character to your Ids if they are only integers.
Other
We deprecated the ParserSettings.OutputFormat.ReportAllCompanyNamesAndPositionTitlesRegardlessand ParserSettings.OutputFormat.ContactMethod properties.
We made these properties read-only:
ParserSettings.OutputFormat.XmlFormatParserSettings.OutputFormat.MinimumCompanyNameProbabilityParserSettings.OutputFormat.MinimumPositionTitleProbability
We moved the Bimetric Score endpoint from /bimetricanalyzer to /scorer/bimetric.
Bug Fixes
Fixed an uncommon issue in our JSON output where some arrays were output as objects when they ony had a single item.
Fixed an issue where the OutputFormat.NormalizeRegions parser setting was being ignored.