Natural language processing for smart construction: Current status and future directions

C Wu, X Li, Y Guo, J Wang, Z Ren, M Wang… - Automation in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Unstructured texts dominate data in construction projects. With the achievements of natural
language processing (NLP) techniques, mining unstructured text data for smart construction …

Applications of natural language processing in construction

Y Ding, J Ma, X Luo - Automation in Construction, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Automated detection of contractual risk clauses from construction specifications using bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT)

S Moon, S Chi, SB Im - Automation in Construction, 2022 - Elsevier
Detecting contractual risk information from construction specifications is crucial to
succeeding in construction projects. This paper describes clause classification using the …

Knowledge-informed semantic alignment and rule interpretation for automated compliance checking

Z Zheng, YC Zhou, XZ Lu, JR Lin - Automation in Construction, 2022 - Elsevier
As an essential prodecure to improve design quality in the construction industry, automated
rule checking (ARC) requires intelligent rule interpretation from regulatory texts and precise …

Automated text classification of near-misses from safety reports: An improved deep learning approach

W Fang, H Luo, S Xu, PED Love, Z Lu, C Ye - Advanced Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Examining past near-miss reports can provide us with information that can be used to learn
about how we can mitigate and control hazards that materialise on construction sites. Yet …

Development of automatic-extraction model of poisonous clauses in international construction contracts using rule-based NLP

J Lee, JS Yi, JW Son - Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 2019 - ascelibrary.org
As construction projects have significantly increased in size and become more complicated,
the number of claims and dispute cases between participating parties during the …

Retrieving similar cases for construction project risk management using Natural Language Processing techniques

Y Zou, A Kiviniemi, SW Jones - Automation in construction, 2017 - Elsevier
Case-based reasoning (CBR) is an important approach in construction project risk
management. It emphasises that previous knowledge and experience of accidents and risks …

Information and communication technology applications in architecture, engineering, and construction organizations: A 15-year review

Y Lu, Y Li, M Skibniewski, Z Wu, R Wang… - Journal of Management …, 2015 - ascelibrary.org
Abstract Information and communication technology (ICT) has had enormous effects on the
development of architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) organizations in past …

Smart data and business analytics: A theoretical framework for managing rework risks in mega-projects

J Matthews, PED Love, SR Porter, W Fang - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Within construction, we have become increasingly accustomed to relying on the benefits of
digital technologies, such as Building Information Modelling, to improve the performance …

Textual data mining for industrial knowledge management and text classification: A business oriented approach

N Ur-Rahman, JA Harding - Expert Systems with Applications, 2012 - Elsevier
Textual databases are useful sources of information and knowledge and if these are well
utilised then issues related to future project management and product or service quality …