Data extraction from machine-translated versus original language randomized trial reports: A comparative study

Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Balk, Ethan M ^a   Chung, Mei ^a   Chen, Minghua L ^a   Chang, Lina Kong Win ^a   Trikalinos, Thomas A ^b  

^a Tufts Evidence Based Practice Center   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data extraction; Machine translation; Randomized controlled trials; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA EXTRACTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; MACHINE LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; WEB BROWSER; HUMAN; LITERATURE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PUBLICATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSLATING (LANGUAGE);

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; HUMANS; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; TRANSLATING; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 84907173534     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20464053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2046-4053-2-97     Document Type: Article

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