From Design Changes to Lawsuits: An Exploratory Study Using Text Analytics Based on Legal Case Database
Li Liu
Abstract:<p>Design change is a major issue influencing construction productivity and if handled inappropriately, may lead to lawsuits in extreme cases. Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) database is an open database that houses massive construction legal case document, each containing thousands of words detailing the judge’s deliberation that leads to the final decision. The study proposes a manual labelling method for legal documents and takes a Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) modelling approach as … Show more
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