Concept relation extraction from construction documents using natural language processing

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 294-302

  Al Qady, Mohammed ^a   Kandil, Amr ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided operations; Computerization; Construction management; Contract management; Information management; Information systems

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS; COMPUTER AIDED OPERATION; CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT; CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS; CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT; CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION; DOCUMENT CATEGORIZATION; DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT; DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT; F-MEASURE SCORES; KNOWLEDGE RESOURCE; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; RELATION EXTRACTION; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE; SHALLOW PARSING; TEXT ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WORD PROCESSING;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77149152182     PISSN: 07339364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000131     Document Type: Article

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