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 …

A critical review of text-based research in construction: Data source, analysis method, and implications

S Baek, W Jung, SH Han - Automation in Construction, 2021 - Elsevier
The advancement of natural language processing and text mining techniques facilitate
automatic non-trivial pattern extraction and knowledge discovery from text data. However …

Improving knowledge capture and retrieval in the BIM environment: Combining case-based reasoning and natural language processing

H Wang, X Meng, X Zhu - Automation in Construction, 2022 - Elsevier
Most knowledge management (KM) techniques capture knowledge at the end of a project,
leading to knowledge loss. Building information modeling (BIM) is a building information …

Question answering method for infrastructure damage information retrieval from textual data using bidirectional encoder representations from transformers

Y Kim, S Bang, J Sohn, H Kim - Automation in construction, 2022 - Elsevier
Manual searching for infrastructure damage information from large amounts of textual data
requires considerable time and effort. A fast and accurate collection of damage information …

Addressing legal and contractual matters in construction using natural language processing: A critical review

F Hassan, T Le, X Lv - Journal of Construction Engineering and …, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
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 …

Administrative risks challenging the adoption of smart contracts in construction projects

AP Gurgun, K Koc - Engineering, Construction and Architectural …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose As a remedy to usually voluminous, complicated and not easily readable
construction contracts, smart contracts can be considered as an effective and alternative …

Ambiguity factors in construction contracts entailing conflicts

K Koc, AP Gurgun - Engineering, Construction and Architectural …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose Conflicts, claims and disputes are inherent in most construction projects.
Acceptable degree of commonality in the interpretation of contract provisions is critical in …

Part-of-speech tagging of building codes empowered by deep learning and transformational rules

X Xue, J Zhang - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2021 - Elsevier
Automated building code compliance checking systems were under development for many
years. However, the excessive amount of human inputs needed to convert building codes …