Semiotic Proposition for Understanding Semantics Within Construction Documents

Tsinghua Science and Technology

Volumn 13, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages 192-198

  Mutis, Ivan ^a   Issa, Raja R A ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

construction representation; ontology categories; semantic forms; semiotics

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES; LINGUISTICS; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS; FORMS OF REPRESENTATIONS; MATERIAL QUALITIES; NATURAL LANGUAGES; SEMIOTIC THEORIES; SEMIOTICS THEORIES; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 62649123840     PISSN: 10070214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1007-0214(08)70148-2     Document Type: Article

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