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Requirement Text Detection from Contract Packages to Support Project Definition Determination
Advances in Informatics and Computing in Civil and Construction Engineering
  • Tuyen Le, Clemson University
  • Chau Le, Texas A & M University - College Station
  • H. David Jeong, Texas A & M University - College Station
  • Stephen B. Gilbert, Iowa State University
  • Evgeny Chukharev-Hudilainen, Iowa State University
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Conference
35th CIB W78 2018 Conference: IT in Design, Construction, and Management
Publication Version
Accepted Manuscript
Link to Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00220-6_68
Publication Date
1-1-2019
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-00220-6_68
Conference Title
35th CIB W78 2018 Conference: IT in Design, Construction, and Management
Conference Date
October 1-3, 2018
Geolocation
(41.8781136, -87.6297982)
Abstract

Project requirements are wishes and expectations of the client toward the design, construction, and other project management processes. The project definition is typically specified in a contract package including a contract document and many other related documents such as drawings, specifications, and government codes. Project definition determination is critical to the success of a project. Due to the lack of efficient tools for requirement processing, the current practices regarding project scoping still heavily rely on a manual basis which is tedious, time-consuming, and error-prone. This study aims to fill that gap by developing an automated method for identifying requirement texts from contractual documents. The study employed Naïve Bayes to train a classification model that can be used to separate requirement statements from non-requirement statements. An experiment was conducted on a manually labeled dataset of 1191 statements. The results revealed that the developed requirement detection model achieves a promising accuracy of over 90%.

Comments

This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of a proceeding published as Le, Tuyen, Chau Le, H. David Jeong, Stephen B. Gilbert, and Evgeny Chukharev-Hudilainen. "Requirement text detection from contract packages to support project definition determination." In: Advances in Informatics and Computing in Civil and Construction Engineering (2019): 569-576. The final authenticated version is available online at DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-00220-6_68. Posted with permission.

Copyright Owner
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Citation Information
Tuyen Le, Chau Le, H. David Jeong, Stephen B. Gilbert, et al.. "Requirement Text Detection from Contract Packages to Support Project Definition Determination" Chicago, ILAdvances in Informatics and Computing in Civil and Construction Engineering (2019) p. 569 - 576
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/evgeny-chukharev-hudilainen/14/