Predicting construction cost overruns using text mining, numerical data and ensemble classifiers

Automation in Construction

Volumn 43, Issue , 2014, Pages 23-29

  Williams, Trefor P ^a   Gong, Jie ^a  

^a the state University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction cost; Data mining; Prediction; Text mining

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; COSTS; FORECASTING; TEXT PROCESSING;

CONSTRUCTION COSTS; CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; DATA MINING CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS; ENSEMBLE CLASSIFIERS; ENSEMBLE MODELING; LOWER PRECISION; STACKING MODELS; TEXT MINING;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84896448133     PISSN: 09265805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2014.02.014     Document Type: Article

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