A Demonstration System towards NLP and Knowledge Driven Data Platforms for Civil Engineering

Abstract

We present a demonstrator that shows a concept towards a smart document platform for Civil Engineering. It demonstrates NLP-supported organisation of documents included into a graphical user interface. The demonstrator addresses the fundamental problem of data structure that includes the internal project logic of a planning project in Civil Engineering. To this end, we build a knowledge graph that includes not only domain-specific knowledge but also standardised project structures. So far included functionalities are a navigation that allows filtering according to a logic familiar to engineers and a simplified data import via automatic classification and tagging using language technologies.