Extraction of construction regulatory requirements from textual documents using natural language processing techniques

Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 453-460

  Zhang, J ^a   El Gohary, N ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTING INFORMATION; INTERNATIONAL BUILDING CODE; INTERNATIONAL FIRE CODES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE TEXT; PRECISION AND RECALL; REGULATORY DOCUMENTS; REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS;

AUTOMATION; BUILDING CODES; CIVIL ENGINEERING; FORMAL LANGUAGES; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; SEMANTICS; TEXT PROCESSING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84888379193     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/9780784412343.0057     Document Type: Conference Paper

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