TEXT UNDERSTANDING METHODS AND SYSTEM FOR MATCHING JOB AND RESUME DOCUMENTS

System, methods, and user interface for searching documents related to resumes or job descriptions as a special type of unstructured data. The methods automatically transform a source document such as a resume or job description into a search query, and retrieve target documents matching the most important contents in the source document without requiring a user to open and read the source document and write a query. The methods identify the most representative attributes in such documents based on grammatical, semantic, and contextual information contained in the documents for producing more effective and relevant search results than manually-constructed search queries.