Claims, disputes, and litigations are major legal issues in construction projects, which often
result in cost overruns, delays, and adverse working relationships among the contracting …

Construction projects, by their very nature, are capital-intensive and risk-prone. Risk
allocation and its management are therefore, integral parts of construction operations. A …

Unstructured texts dominate data in construction projects. With the achievements of natural
language processing (NLP) techniques, mining unstructured text data for smart construction …

Manual regulatory compliance checking of construction projects is usually time-consuming
and error-prone. There have been efforts both in academia and industry to automate this …

Building codes enforce minimum quality level for buildings to ensure the safety of building
occupants. Automated compliance checking can guarantee the consistent application of all …

Recently, construction-defect litigation has upsurged across the United States. Disputes
arise due to a variety of reasons, and result in a range of negative impacts on construction …

Despite the increasing use of natural language processing (NLP) in the construction
domain, no systematic comparison has been conducted between NLP applications in …

In the construction industry under “Industry 4.0”, Natural Language Processing (NLP) has
been widely used to process and analyze text data to achieve construction intelligence …

As construction projects have significantly increased in size and become more complicated,
the number of claims and dispute cases between participating parties during the …

The urban planning profession is increasingly challenged to analyze extensive text data,
from plans to public feedback. While natural language processing (NLP) has promising …