CODE-ACCORD: A Corpus of building regulatory data for rule generation towards automatic compliance checking Hansi Hettiarachchi, Amna Dridi, Mohamed Medhat Gaber, Pouyan Parsafard, Nicoleta Bocaneala, et al. Scientific Data, 2025 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.
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Twist and Snap: A Neuro-Symbolic System for Affordance Learning of Opening Jars and Bottles Jorge Aguirregomezcorta Aina, Maria M. Hedblom 2024 7th Iberian Robotics Conference Robot 2024, 2024 Autonomous robotic systems need a flexible and safe method to interact with their surroundings. When encountering unfamiliar objects, the agents should be able to identify and learn the involved affordances to apply appropriate actions. Focusing on affordance learning, we introduce a neuro-symbolic AI system with a robot simulation capable of inferring appropriate action. The system's core is a visuo-lingual attribute detection module coupled with a probabilistic knowledge base. The system is accompanied by a Unity robot simulation that is used for evaluation. The system is evaluated through caption-inferring capabilities using image captioning and machine translation metrics on a case study of opening containers. The two main affordance-action relation pairs are the jar/bottle lids that are open using either a ‘twist’ or a ‘snap’ action. The results show the system is successful in opening all 50 containers in the test case, based on an accurate attribute captioning rate of 71%. The mismatch is likely due to the ‘snapping’ lids being able to open also after a twisting motion. Our system demonstrates that affordance inference can be successfully implemented using a cognitive visuo-lingual method that could be generalized to other affordance cases.
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A balancing act: Ordering algorithm and image-schematic action descriptors for stacking objects by household robots Ceur Workshop Proceedings, 2022
Getting On Top of Things: Towards Intelligent Robotic Object Stacking through Image-Schematic Reasoning Ceur Workshop Proceedings, 2022
Thinking in front of the box: Towards intelligent robotic action selection for navigation in complex environments using image-schematic reasoning Ceur Workshop Proceedings, 2022
Deciphering The Cookie Monster: A case study in impossible combinations Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Creativity Iccc 2021, 2021
Panta Rhei: Curiosity-Driven Exploration to Learn the Image-Schematic Affordances of Pouring Liquids Ceur Workshop Proceedings, 2021
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Ontology-Based Model Abstraction Giancarlo Guizzardi, Guylerme Figueiredo, Maria M. Hedblom, Geert Poels Proceedings International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, 2019
Hidden meaning: Using image schema violations to expose hidden semantical structures in metaphors Ceur Workshop Proceedings, 2019
Under the super-suit: What superheroes can reveal about inherited properties in conceptual blending Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Creativity Iccc 2018, 2018
Beneath the paint: A visual journey through conceptual metaphor violation Ceur Workshop Proceedings, 2017
Image schemas and conceptual dependency primitives: A comparison Ceur Workshop Proceedings, 2017
Breaking down finance: A method for concept simplification by identifying movement structures from the image schema PATH-following Ceur Workshop Proceedings, 2016
Ontology patterns with DOWL: The case of blending Ceur Workshop Proceedings, 2016
Shape up, baby! perception, image schemas, and shapes in concept formation Ceur Workshop Proceedings, 2015
On the cognitive and logical role of image schemas in computational conceptual blending Ceur Workshop Proceedings, 2014
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