Providing answers to questions from automatically collected web pages for intelligent decision making in the construction sector

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-13

  Kovacevic, Milos ^a   Nie, Jian Yun ^b   Davidson, Colin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Classification; Construction management; Decision making; Information retrieval; Internet; Knowledge based systems

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ONLINE SEARCHING;

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT; MODULAR SYSTEMS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 37249076906     PISSN: 08873801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0887-3801(2008)22:1(3)     Document Type: Article

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