Ontology-based information extraction from environmental regulations for supporting environmental compliance checking

Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering, Proceedings

Volumn 2015-January, Issue January, 2015, Pages 190-198

  Zhou, Peng ^a   El Gohary, Nora ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BUILDING CODES; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPLIANCE CONTROL; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; PATTERN MATCHING; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; SEMANTICS; TEXT PROCESSING;

AUTOMATED COMPLIANCE CHECKING; COMPUTATIONAL PROCESSING; DEPENDENCY INFORMATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; ONTOLOGY-BASED INFORMATION EXTRACTION; REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS;

INFORMATION FILTERING;

EID: 84936872225     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/9780784479247.024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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