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TY - JOUR
T1 - CODE-ACCORD
T2 - A Corpus of building regulatory data for rule generation towards automatic compliance checking
AU - Hettiarachchi, Hansi
AU - Dridi, Amna
AU - Gaber, Mohamed Medhat
AU - Parsafard, Pouyan
AU - Bocaneala, Nicoleta
AU - Breitenfelder, Katja
AU - Costa, Gonçal
AU - Hedblom, Maria
AU - Juganaru-Mathieu, Mihaela
AU - Mecharnia, Thamer
AU - Park, Sumee
AU - Tan, He
AU - Tawil, Abdel-Rahman H.
AU - Vakaj, Edlira
PY - 2025/1/29
Y1 - 2025/1/29
N2 - Automatic Compliance Checking (ACC) within the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) sector necessitates automating the interpretation of building regulations to achieve its full potential. Converting textual rules into machine-readable formats is challenging due to the complexities of natural language and the scarcity of resources for advanced Machine Learning (ML). Addressing these challenges, we introduce CODE-ACCORD, a dataset of 862 sentences from the building regulations of England and Finland. Only the self-contained sentences, which express complete rules without needing additional context, were considered as they are essential for ACC. Each sentence was manually annotated with entities and relations by a team of 12 annotators to facilitate machine-readable rule generation, followed by careful curation to ensure accuracy. The final dataset comprises 4,297 entities and 4,329 relations across various categories, serving as a robust ground truth. CODE-ACCORD supports a range of ML and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, including text classification, entity recognition, and relation extraction. It enables applying recent trends, such as deep neural networks and large language models, to ACC.
AB - Automatic Compliance Checking (ACC) within the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) sector necessitates automating the interpretation of building regulations to achieve its full potential. Converting textual rules into machine-readable formats is challenging due to the complexities of natural language and the scarcity of resources for advanced Machine Learning (ML). Addressing these challenges, we introduce CODE-ACCORD, a dataset of 862 sentences from the building regulations of England and Finland. Only the self-contained sentences, which express complete rules without needing additional context, were considered as they are essential for ACC. Each sentence was manually annotated with entities and relations by a team of 12 annotators to facilitate machine-readable rule generation, followed by careful curation to ensure accuracy. The final dataset comprises 4,297 entities and 4,329 relations across various categories, serving as a robust ground truth. CODE-ACCORD supports a range of ML and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, including text classification, entity recognition, and relation extraction. It enables applying recent trends, such as deep neural networks and large language models, to ACC.
U2 - 10.1038/s41597-024-04320-x
DO - 10.1038/s41597-024-04320-x
M3 - Journal article
VL - 12
JO - Scientific Data
JF - Scientific Data
SN - 2052-4463
IS - 1
M1 - 170
ER -