Capturing implicit structures in unstructured content of construction documents

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 220-227

  Zhu, Yimin ^a   Mao, Weihua ^a   Ahmad, Irtishad ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction management; Documentation; Information management

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT; ELECTRONIC MEDIA; STRUCTURED INFORMATION.; UNSTRUCTURED INFORMATION;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DATA PROCESSING; DATA STRUCTURES; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 34247268293     PISSN: 08873801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0887-3801(2007)21:3(220)     Document Type: Article

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