BabelMeSH and PICO Linguist in Arabic. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • 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.

authors

  • Mahmoud, Mai A.
  • Al-Khafaji, Jawad Thamer Jawad
  • Al-Shorbaji, Najeeb
  • Sara, Kaseem
  • Al-Ubaydli, Mohammad
  • Ghazzaoui, Ramez
  • Liu, Fang
  • Fontelo, Paul

publication date

  • November 6, 2008

Research

keywords

  • Abstracting and Indexing
  • Dictionaries, Medical as Topic
  • Medical Subject Headings
  • Natural Language Processing
  • PubMed
  • Terminology as Topic
  • Translating
  • User-Computer Interface

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 73949104792

PubMed ID

  • 18998782

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