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Original SubmissionJanuary 10, 2021
Decision Letter - Chi-Hua Chen, Editor

PONE-D-21-00932

Designing a Human Resource Management System and Analyzing Its Human-Computer Interaction Performance Under the Background of Artificial Intelligence

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2. A literature review section should be given and discussed.

3. The authors only used a neural network to solve the research questions. However, the authors should propose an original model or improve the neural network to solve the research questions.

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5. The authors should present the loss function of the used neural networks.

6. The authors should present the activation functions of the used neural networks.

7. The authors should compare neural networks with LSTM networks, GRU networks, Bi-LSTM networks, and Bi-GRU networks.

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Additional Editor Comments:

Before review process, some comments should be addressed for manuscript revision.

Therefore, I invite the authors to resubmit the revised manuscript for further reviews.

1. The contributions of this study should be highlight in the first section.

2. A literature review section should be given and discussed.

3. The authors only used a neural network to solve the research questions. However, the authors should propose an original model or improve the neural network to solve the research questions.

4. The authors should present the structure of the used neural networks.

5. The authors should present the loss function of the used neural networks.

6. The authors should present the activation functions of the used neural networks.

7. The authors should compare neural networks with LSTM networks, GRU networks, Bi-LSTM networks, and Bi-GRU networks.

8. The authors should give practical experimental results to compare the used method with other methods.

9. The authors should present the limitation of this study.

10. Conclusions and future work should be given and discuss and given in the last section.

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Revision 1

Additional Editor Comments:

Before review process, some comments should be addressed for manuscript revision.

Therefore, I invite the authors to resubmit the revised manuscript for further reviews.

1. The contributions of this study should be highlight in the first section.

Response: Thanks for reviewing this manuscript. The innovative points have been supplemented in the introduction section.

2. A literature review section should be given and discussed.

Response: Thanks for your comment. A literature review has been given to summarize the previous research works.

3. The authors only used a neural network to solve the research questions. However, the authors should propose an original model or improve the neural network to solve the research questions.

Response: Thanks for reviewing this manuscript. In Section 2.2, the defects of BPNN are introduced. Therefore, in “(5) Optimization methods,” the gradient optimization algorithm is proposed to optimize the BPNN to improve its convergence speed; besides, the gradient descent optimization algorithm is introduced.

4. The authors should present the structure of the used neural networks.

5. The authors should present the loss function of the used neural networks.

6. The authors should present the activation functions of the used neural networks.

Response: Thanks for commenting. Neural network parameters have been supplemented in Section 2.2.

7. The authors should compare neural networks with LSTM networks, GRU networks, Bi-LSTM networks, and Bi-GRU networks.

Response: Thanks for your suggestion. Comparison results of actual research works have been supplemented.

8. The authors should give practical experimental results to compare the used method with other methods.

Response: Thanks for your suggestion. Comparison results of actual research works have been supplemented.

9. The authors should present the limitation of this study.

Response: Thanks for your comment. In the conclusion section, the limitations of the manuscript are introduced.

10. Conclusions and future work should be given and discuss and given in the last section.

Response: Thanks for commenting. In the conclusion section, the research content is summarized, and the deficiencies in the manuscript at the current stage and the prospects for future works are proposed.

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Decision Letter - Chi-Hua Chen, Editor

PONE-D-21-00932R1

Designing a Human Resource Management System and Analyzing Its Human-Computer Interaction Performance Under the Background of Artificial Intelligence

PLOS ONE

Dear Dr. Gong,

Thank you for submitting your manuscript to PLOS ONE. After careful consideration, we feel that it has merit but does not fully meet PLOS ONE’s publication criteria as it currently stands. Therefore, we invite you to submit a revised version of the manuscript that addresses the points raised during the review process.

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Reviewer #1: (No Response)

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Reviewer #1: Partly

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Reviewer #1: I Don't Know

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Reviewer #1: No

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Reviewer #1: (I am reviewing this paper from the point of view of Machine Learning / Natural Language Processing - I had not reviewed the previous version of the paper)

I appreciate the authors have addressed the previous comments by the reviewers. However there is one fundamental problem and a couple of related problems with this paper that need to be addressed in my opinion before it can be published.

As the authors note, the resumes that they propose need to be input to a salary forecasting algorithm, present complex, structured information (line 75-124, fig 1). Extracting this information is not trivial. The authors only mention some methods that are "commonly used" (line 97), and then, (line 123) "since the info extracted from resumes is character data, it needs to be transformed to numeric data". This makes it sound like a resume is simply processed as a string of characters. The results they obtain are not interpretable in any way then - ie, we have no idea which features of the resume may actually affect the salary, which from fig. 7 appears underestimated; in fact in the end it may only depend on the type of position applied. We are not told what the performance of a baseline that simply predicts based on type of positions would be.

This brings up questions of ethical responsibility as well: how do we know which features may affect this computation? what if it is correlated with gender, or age, say? do we run the risk of a forecast model that is inherently biased? the authors don't discuss any ethical implications of their work.

Also, it is not clear what P/R in Fig 9 and scores in fig 8 are about. P/R are in general applied to classification, when we can say what are TPs (true positives), etc. what are TP/FP etc here? I can't imagine that it's computed on exact salary forecast. Rather, is it computed on the hiring/not hiring classification (line 319)?

I thought I'd find the answer in the data, that the authors say is available. But what is available is data on running on their experiments, not the original dataset of the 1000 resumes; or the kind of information that may have been extracted, like education, previous work experience etc. That data may not be available since it comes from a company, but the authors should be clear about that. As a minimum, they should add information about what is contained in those resumes: which sort of positions were applied to; what sort of educational experience; gender distributions; age ranges etc.

The other problem with this paper is that it is not clear what the contributions of the authors are. Lines 136-240 (approximately) discuss how BPNN's work and can be trained; but this is not the authors' contribution, ie, they did not invented BPNN's or how to train them. I am not sure describing how BPNN's have been applied to the salary forecasting problem (without any description of the data and the features that affect the model, as noted above), warrants a journal publication.

The literature review (which has been added) is still only half a page, and only mentions papers from 2019/2020. I assume trying to forecast salary existed before 2019?

line 346 "Finally, the human-computer interaction performance ...": there is no human computer interaction whatsoever in this paper; there is no design of an interface, there's no evaluation of how users would use these results.

English: the authors note a professional has revised the paper but there are still few infelicities:

Abstract: "The purposes are " --> " The purpose of this paper is ..."

line 84 "on spectacular judgments" --> "on speculative judgments" (Spectacular is for sure the wrong adjective: I presume the authors mean speculative)

line 119 " Applying position": "the position applied to"

line 331 "analyzing the applicant’s resume, which has some reference value": what is "the reference value"?

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Revision 2

Reviewer #1: (I am reviewing this paper from the point of view of Machine Learning / Natural Language Processing - I had not reviewed the previous version of the paper)

I appreciate the authors have addressed the previous comments by the reviewers. However there is one fundamental problem and a couple of related problems with this paper that need to be addressed in my opinion before it can be published.

Response: Thanks for reviewing this manuscript. We have revised this manuscript based on the comments of yours.

As the authors note, the resumes that they propose need to be input to a salary forecasting algorithm, present complex, structured information (line 75-124, fig 1). Extracting this information is not trivial. The authors only mention some methods that are "commonly used" (line 97), and then, (line 123) "since the info extracted from resumes is character data, it needs to be transformed to numeric data". This makes it sound like a resume is simply processed as a string of characters. The results they obtain are not interpretable in any way then - ie, we have no idea which features of the resume may actually affect the salary, which from fig. 7 appears underestimated; in fact in the end it may only depend on the type of position applied. We are not told what the performance of a baseline that simply predicts based on type of positions would be.

Response: Resumes received during recruitment are not in a fixed format, so that the resume information shall be processed and converted into character data that can be processed uniformly. In lines 114-129, the resume information that affects the salary level of employees is introduced in detail. Descriptions of Figure 7 suggest that the model error may be caused by normalizing the resume data. Nonetheless, the overall prediction trend is in line with the actual results so that the obtained results are considered to meet the actual requirements. During training, the dataset after successful recruitment is used; thus, the internal parameters of the model have been considered for the salary level caused by the employment position during training. The salary of employees depends on a variety of factors. Hence, we do not study salary changes caused by a single factor such as job position.

This brings up questions of ethical responsibility as well: how do we know which features may affect this computation? what if it is correlated with gender, or age, say? do we run the risk of a forecast model that is inherently biased? the authors don't discuss any ethical implications of their work.

Response: In the “Introduction to Experimental Samples” section, the data characteristics and current moral hazards of the experimental samples are introduced. In lines 114-129, factors that affect the salary of employees are introduced. The information in these resumes will impact the results of salary predictions. Besides, the setting of the BPNN parameters used will also affect the prediction results. Since the training of the prediction model uses the data after successful recruitment, the moral hazard caused by gender and age is not directly involved in the research process, and the prediction results obtained by the model are also in line with the enterprise’s recruitment requirements. Therefore, the risk of recruitment bias that may exist is not considered in the research process.

Also, it is not clear what P/R in Fig 9 and scores in fig 8 are about. P/R are in general applied to classification, when we can say what are TPs (true positives), etc. what are TP/FP etc here? I can't imagine that it's computed on exact salary forecast. Rather, is it computed on the hiring/not hiring classification (line 319)?

Response: In the “Introduction to Experimental Samples” section, the introduction to experimental samples and test indicators have been introduced.

I thought I'd find the answer in the data, that the authors say is available. But what is available is data on running on their experiments, not the original dataset of the 1000 resumes; or the kind of information that may have been extracted, like education, previous work experience etc. That data may not be available since it comes from a company, but the authors should be clear about that. As a minimum, they should add information about what is contained in those resumes: which sort of positions were applied to; what sort of educational experience; gender distributions; age ranges etc.

Response: In the “Introduction to Experimental Samples” section, an introduction to experimental data has been supplemented to facilitate readers’ understanding of the dataset.

The other problem with this paper is that it is not clear what the contributions of the authors are. Lines 136-240 (approximately) discuss how BPNN's work and can be trained; but this is not the authors' contribution, ie, they did not invented BPNN's or how to train them. I am not sure describing how BPNN's have been applied to the salary forecasting problem (without any description of the data and the features that affect the model, as noted above), warrants a journal publication.

Response: The prediction effect of the model is affected by the training samples and model parameters. To get a more accurate prediction effect, it is necessary to continuously test to get the best parameter settings of the model. Therefore, it is considered that the process of solving the optimal parameters also belongs to the research contribution of the manuscript. Since salary prediction is a multiple-input single-output mapping process, effective salary prediction results can be obtained by taking different salary influencing factors as the output of the model and optimizing the influence weight of each factor in the model through training.

The literature review (which has been added) is still only half a page, and only mentions papers from 2019/2020. I assume trying to forecast salary existed before 2019?

Response: Research content related to employee salary prediction before 2019 has been added.

line 346 "Finally, the human-computer interaction performance ...": there is no human computer interaction whatsoever in this paper; there is no design of an interface, there's no evaluation of how users would use these results.

Response: This is a good suggestion. Revisions have been made correspondingly.

English: the authors note a professional has revised the paper but there are still few infelicities:

Abstract: "The purposes are " --> " The purpose of this paper is ..."

line 84 "on spectacular judgments" --> "on speculative judgments" (Spectacular is for sure the wrong adjective: I presume the authors mean speculative)

line 119 " Applying position": "the position applied to"

line 331 "analyzing the applicant’s resume, which has some reference value": what is "the reference value"?

Response: Thanks for your comments. This manuscript has been revised.

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Decision Letter - Chi-Hua Chen, Editor

PONE-D-21-00932R2

Designing a Human Resource Management System and Analyzing Its Human-Computer Interaction Performance Under the Background of Artificial Intelligence

PLOS ONE

Dear Dr. Gong,

Thank you for submitting your manuscript to PLOS ONE. After careful consideration, we feel that it has merit but does not fully meet PLOS ONE’s publication criteria as it currently stands. Therefore, we invite you to submit a revised version of the manuscript that addresses the points raised during the review process.

Please submit your revised manuscript by Aug 05 2021 11:59PM. If you will need more time than this to complete your revisions, please reply to this message or contact the journal office at plosone@plos.org. When you're ready to submit your revision, log on to https://www.editorialmanager.com/pone/ and select the 'Submissions Needing Revision' folder to locate your manuscript file.

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We look forward to receiving your revised manuscript.

Kind regards,

Chi-Hua Chen, Ph.D.

Academic Editor

PLOS ONE

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Comments to the Author

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Reviewer #1: (No Response)

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2. Is the manuscript technically sound, and do the data support the conclusions?

The manuscript must describe a technically sound piece of scientific research with data that supports the conclusions. Experiments must have been conducted rigorously, with appropriate controls, replication, and sample sizes. The conclusions must be drawn appropriately based on the data presented.

Reviewer #1: Partly

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3. Has the statistical analysis been performed appropriately and rigorously?

Reviewer #1: Yes

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4. Have the authors made all data underlying the findings in their manuscript fully available?

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Reviewer #1: No

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Reviewer #1: Yes

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6. Review Comments to the Author

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Reviewer #1: I appreciate the authors have attempted to address my comments, added to the literature, added a short section "introduction to the sample" which addresses some of my questions on the data and the evaluation metrics; and eliminated the reference to human computer interaction. However, my major concerns remain unaddressed.

Specifically:

1. They have not addressed the issues I was raising as concerns which attributes affect salary predictions, the baseline, and importantly, whether the model is biased.

a. I had asked for a baseline, as is common in ML experiments. None was provided, and the justification was "The salary of employees depends on a variety of factors. Hence, we do not study salary changes caused by a single factor such as job position. " Sure, but if there is no baseline there is the possibility that a much simpler model could be as if not more effective, and explanatory. I used "job position" as a simple example that intuitively makes sense, but many other baselines would be possible. I don't consider the GRU results a baseline in this sense.

b. I had asked for some elaboration on which features may affect the model, but no insight was provided. The authors themselves say "The salary of employees depends on a variety of factors. " but we have no idea which factors matter after these experiments. The authors could have run ablation studies, although not sure their encoding of resumes allows for that. But if that's the case, they should find a way of addressing this point.

c. If I understand the authors' argument re bias, they basically say "this is a model about previous recruitment, so there's no moral hazard", to wit "Since the training of the prediction model uses the data after successful recruitment, the moral hazard caused by gender and age is not directly involved in the research process, and the prediction results obtained by the model are also in line with the enterprise’s recruitment requirements".

This is not satisfactory, and in fact, troublesome. Previous successful recruitment may have been affected by bias, and the authors' model may just embody that bias. Additionally, obviously a model is not built just for the sake of building it, but for some future application; that's the motivation the authors themselves provide in the introduction and elsewhere, like in lines 88 to 104. We don't know what the predictions are based on, there is no explainability, which is really a concern.

2. Contribution to BPNN. I had raised questions on their contribution from this point of view and their response is that "[...] it is considered that the process of solving the optimal parameters also belongs to the research contribution of the manuscript. "

I assume the authors refer to section "Determining parameters of the salary forecast model" starting line 204. I don't see why this goes beyond the standard training of a deep learning model. Sure it is important to experiment with different parameter settings and report them, but it's an application of already known methods, it does not introduce novel methods.

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Reviewer #1: I appreciate the authors have attempted to address my comments, added to the literature, added a short section "introduction to the sample" which addresses some of my questions on the data and the evaluation metrics; and eliminated the reference to human computer interaction. However, my major concerns remain unaddressed.

Reply: Thanks for your suggestions. We have further adjusted the content of the article to solve the problems. And the equation of the article is optimized and supplemented to better show the problems to be studied.

Specifically:

1. They have not addressed the issues I was raising as concerns which attributes affect salary predictions, the baseline, and importantly, whether the model is biased.

Reply: we appreciate your careful reading and comment. A number of related analysis and experiments about the impact on salary are added, and the potential recruitment bias of the model is analyzed.

a. I had asked for a baseline, as is common in ML experiments. None was provided, and the justification was "The salary of employees depends on a variety of factors. Hence, we do not study salary changes caused by a single factor such as job position. " Sure, but if there is no baseline there is the possibility that a much simpler model could be as if not more effective, and explanatory. I used "job position" as a simple example that intuitively makes sense, but many other baselines would be possible. I don't consider the GRU results a baseline in this sense.

Reply: In order to reflect the baseline of wages, we have added the wage changes based on "job type", "education level" and "work experience".

b. I had asked for some elaboration on which features may affect the model, but no insight was provided. The authors themselves say "The salary of employees depends on a variety of factors. " but we have no idea which factors matter after these experiments. The authors could have run ablation studies, although not sure their encoding of resumes allows for that. But if that's the case, they should find a way of addressing this point.

Reply: thanks for pointing out this. We have added the analysis content of influencing factors of salary, and selected three influencing factors of "job type", "work experience" and "education level" for analysis.

c. If I understand the authors' argument re bias, they basically say "this is a model about previous recruitment, so there's no moral hazard", to wit "Since the training of the prediction model uses the data after successful recruitment, the moral hazard caused by gender and age is not directly involved in the research process, and the prediction results obtained by the model are also in line with the enterprise’s recruitment requirements".

This is not satisfactory, and in fact, troublesome. Previous successful recruitment may have been affected by bias, and the authors' model may just embody that bias. Additionally, obviously a model is not built just for the sake of building it, but for some future application; that's the motivation the authors themselves provide in the introduction and elsewhere, like in lines 88 to 104. We don't know what the predictions are based on, there is no explainability, which is really a concern.

Reply: According to the reviewers, recruitment discrimination always exists in the recruitment process, so the data set adopted also inherits this possible bias. In the research, the salary forecast based on the resume information of recruitment is obtained by combining many aspects, so the recruitment will not be terminated for a certain reason. In order to reduce the possible risks, the weight of neural network of factors that may cause recruitment discrimination such as gender and age will be reduced, to eliminate this potential problem as far as possible. A description of this part has been added in the section "Determining parameters of the salary forecast model".

2. Contribution to BPNN. I had raised questions on their contribution from this point of view and their response is that "[...] it is considered that the process of solving the optimal parameters also belongs to the research contribution of the manuscript. "

I assume the authors refer to section "Determining parameters of the salary forecast model" starting line 204. I don't see why this goes beyond the standard training of a deep learning model. Sure it is important to experiment with different parameter settings and report them, but it's an application of already known methods, it does not introduce novel methods.

Reply: “Determining parameters of the salary forecast model” presents the parameter validation process for the designed model. This part can help readers know the setting of model parameters, so that readers can repeat the experiment. The model designed will be used for salary prediction, so this part can help readers better realize this model and apply it to practice.

3. Data: contrary to the authors' claim, the data is not available. The data which is available refers to their experimental parameters, but it does not include the original dataset with the resumes on which they run their experiments.

Reply: In the results and discussion, we have supplemented the content of factor level analysis and the related introduction of data set.

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Designing a Human Resource Management System and Analyzing Its Human-Computer Interaction Performance Under the Background of Artificial Intelligence

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Reviewer #3: Yes

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Reviewer #3: Yes

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Reviewer #2: 1) The title is misleading and not specific:

"Designing a Human Resource Management System and Analyzing Its Human-

Computer Interaction Performance Under the Background of Artificial Intelligence"

- it is not clear what the above means?

2) Abstract is not factual. The authors did not investigate all the aspects of HR as they claim here:

"The purpose of this paper is to enhance human resources’ information management

level and strengthen enterprises’ competitiveness and development capabilities. The

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is adopted to optimize the Human Resource

Management (HRM) process, reduce the workload, and improve office efficiency."

3) The study and model limitations must be discussed.

4) The quality of Figures 1-11 is unacceptable.

5) The are several grammatical and syntax errors. Professional English language editing is required.

Reviewer #3: The Authors were addressed all the comments raised by the previous reviewers.

They have to elaborate how the model was affect recruitment bias and salary bias, how they will overcome this issue, data validation need be show.

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Review Comments to the Author

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Reviewer #2: 1) The title is misleading and not specific:

"Designing a Human Resource Management System and Analyzing Its Human-

Computer Interaction Performance Under the Background of Artificial Intelligence"

- it is not clear what the above means?

Reply: The title of the article has been adjusted to show the research content of the article more clearly.

2) Abstract is not factual. The authors did not investigate all the aspects of HR as they claim here:

"The purpose of this paper is to enhance human resources’ information management

level and strengthen enterprises’ competitiveness and development capabilities. The

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is adopted to optimize the Human Resource

Management (HRM) process, reduce the workload, and improve office efficiency."

Reply: the abstract of the article has been adjusted, briefly introducing the research content of the article.

3) The study and model limitations must be discussed.

Reply: In the conclusion of the article, the limitations of the research and model are discussed, and future work prospects are introduced.

4) The quality of Figures 1-11 is unacceptable.

Reply: we have adjusted the quality of the figures in the article, and enhanced the beauty and clarity.

5) The are several grammatical and syntax errors. Professional English language editing is required.

Reply: thanks for pointing out this. We have invited a native speaker to revise the grammatical and syntax errors.

Reviewer #3: The Authors were addressed all the comments raised by the previous reviewers.

They have to elaborate how the model was affect recruitment bias and salary bias, how they will overcome this issue, data validation need be show.

Reply: thanks for your approval of our effort. In line 230-232, we have introduced methods to reduce the employment discrimination caused by gender and age in the research process, and analyzed the correlation of salary influencing factors in "Analysis of salary relevance", the model focuses on judging criteria based on job type, work experience, and academic level, which further reduces potential recruitment issues.

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The Design and Interactive Performance of Human Resource Management System Based on Artificial Intelligence

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Date: Sep 03 2021 04:27AM

To: "Yangda Gong" gongyangda@hhu.edu.cn

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Subject: PLOS ONE Decision: Revision required [PONE-D-21-00932R4]

PONE-D-21-00932R4

The Design and Interactive Performance of Human Resource Management System Based on Artificial Intelligence

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Dear Dr. Gong,

Thank you for submitting your manuscript to PLOS ONE. After careful consideration, we feel that it has merit but does not fully meet PLOS ONE’s publication criteria as it currently stands. Therefore, we invite you to submit a revised version of the manuscript that addresses the points raised during the review process.

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