Promoting transactions for A/E/C product information

Automation in Construction

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 746-757

  Lin, Ken Yu ^a   Soibelman, Lucio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction information system; Information retrieval; Ontology; Search engine; Text mining; Thesaurus

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINES;

CONSTRUCTION INFORMATION SYSTEM; ONTOLOGY; TEXT MINING; THESAURUS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33748363888     PISSN: 09265805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2005.09.008     Document Type: Article

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