Automated regulatory information extraction from building codes leveraging syntactic and semantic information

Construction Research Congress 2012: Construction Challenges in a Flat World, Proceedings of the 2012 Construction Research Congress

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 622-632

  Zhang, Jiansong ^a   EL Gohary, Nora ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED INFORMATION; BASIC CONCEPTS; CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; ERROR PRONES; F-MEASURE; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; INTERNATIONAL BUILDING CODE; INTERNATIONAL FIRE CODES; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE TEXT; NLP TOOLS; PART OF SPEECH TAGGING; SEMANTIC INFORMATION; SEMANTIC ROLE LABELING; TOKENIZATION;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; RESEARCH; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS; TEXT PROCESSING;

BUILDING CODES;

EID: 84866241047     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/9780784412329.063     Document Type: Conference Paper

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