Identifying issues in international construction projects from news text using pre-trained models and clustering

IF 9.6 1区工程技术 Q1 CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

Automation in Construction Pub Date : 2024-11-19 DOI:10.1016/j.autcon.2024.105875

Sehwan Chung , Jungyeon Kim , Joonwoo Baik , Seokho Chi , Du Yon Kim

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Abstract

The uncontrollable nature of international construction projects requires continuous monitoring of issues in the host country. News articles can provide relevant information to monitor the issues, but the manual investigation of substantial news text is impractical. This paper proposes a framework to automatically collect information related to the host country's business environments from news text, consisting of three modules: (1) web scraping for collecting news text; (2) text embedding using a pre-trained language model; and (3) text clustering for extracting essential issues. Applying this framework to real-world news demonstrated its proficiency in identifying significant issues, outperforming the existing similar methods in terms of: (1) the accuracy of issue identification; (2) the quality of identified issues; and (3) the degree of human intervention. This paper contributes to the body of knowledge by showcasing the utility of news text in gathering information and identifying issues about the host country during international projects.

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利用预训练模型和聚类从新闻文本中识别国际建筑项目中的问题

国际建筑项目的不可控性要求对东道国的问题进行持续监测。新闻报道可以为监测问题提供相关信息，但人工调查大量新闻文本是不切实际的。本文提出了一个从新闻文本中自动收集东道国商业环境相关信息的框架，由三个模块组成：(1) 收集新闻文本的网络搜刮；(2) 使用预先训练的语言模型进行文本嵌入；(3) 提取基本问题的文本聚类。将这一框架应用于真实世界的新闻，证明了它在识别重大问题方面的能力，在以下方面优于现有的类似方法：(1) 识别问题的准确性；(2) 识别问题的质量；以及 (3) 人工干预的程度。本文通过展示新闻文本在收集信息和识别国际项目中东道国问题方面的实用性，为知识体系做出了贡献。

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来源期刊

Automation in Construction 工程技术-工程：土木

CiteScore

19.20

自引率

16.50%

发文量

563

审稿时长

8.5 months

期刊介绍： Automation in Construction is an international journal that focuses on publishing original research papers related to the use of Information Technologies in various aspects of the construction industry. The journal covers topics such as design, engineering, construction technologies, and the maintenance and management of constructed facilities. The scope of Automation in Construction is extensive and covers all stages of the construction life cycle. This includes initial planning and design, construction of the facility, operation and maintenance, as well as the eventual dismantling and recycling of buildings and engineering structures.