BabelMeSH and PICO Linguist in Arabic
For AMIA 2008, Dr. Paul Fontelo and colleagues presented this poster.
BabelMeSH is a multilanguage search for MEDLINE/PubMed. We created a database of Arabic translations of MeSH terms and other medical terms using MySQL and developed a Web interface for searching MEDLINE/PubMed in Arabic. We evaluated the accuracy of BabelMeSH using a list of medical terms from BMJ Clinical Evidence. The accuracy was 58% (machine scoring) and 65% human review.) The result obtained may be explained by variations in expressing medical terms in Arabic.
My name is down as one of the authors but my contribution is minor relative to those of the others, especially Paul’s, as he has created and championed BabelMeSH for some time now. At any rate, I highly recommend the Arabic language BabelMeSH.
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