On the crucial role of multilingual biomedical databases in epidemic events (SARS-CoV-2 analysis)
The need for multilingual biomedical databases was already pointed out by different authors. They argue about the need for making translations available in other languages and centralized access to regional databases and that one should not disregard citations in other languages. This fact could not...
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doaj-83c6529663c44f79ba9c5bab7cc0ff892020-11-25T03:02:25ZengElsevierInternational Journal of Infectious Diseases1201-97122020-07-0196352354On the crucial role of multilingual biomedical databases in epidemic events (SARS-CoV-2 analysis)Felipe Soares0Gabrielli Harumi Yamashita1University of Sheffield, Computer Science Department, NLP Group, United Kingdom; Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Departamento de Engenharia de Produção, Brazil; Corresponding author at: University of Sheffield, Computer Science Department, NLP Group, United Kingdom.Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Departamento de Engenharia de Produção, BrazilThe need for multilingual biomedical databases was already pointed out by different authors. They argue about the need for making translations available in other languages and centralized access to regional databases and that one should not disregard citations in other languages. This fact could not be any more real in the current situation regarding the novel coronavirus. When considering treatment, diagnosis and prevention, around 44% of the articles in PubMed were written in Chinese. This prompts the urgent need for quality automatic translation to make such extremely valuable information available to medical personnel in as many languages as possible. We also point out that the community should also make efforts to guarantee editorial quality and to follow the best practices in editing and publishing. This is of critical importance as well, such that the content is properly scrutinized before being published.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971220303301EpidemicsNatural Language ProcessingBiomedical databases |
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On the crucial role of multilingual biomedical databases in epidemic events (SARS-CoV-2 analysis) |
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On the crucial role of multilingual biomedical databases in epidemic events (SARS-CoV-2 analysis) |
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On the crucial role of multilingual biomedical databases in epidemic events (SARS-CoV-2 analysis) |
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On the crucial role of multilingual biomedical databases in epidemic events (SARS-CoV-2 analysis) |
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on the crucial role of multilingual biomedical databases in epidemic events (sars-cov-2 analysis) |
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International Journal of Infectious Diseases |
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The need for multilingual biomedical databases was already pointed out by different authors. They argue about the need for making translations available in other languages and centralized access to regional databases and that one should not disregard citations in other languages. This fact could not be any more real in the current situation regarding the novel coronavirus. When considering treatment, diagnosis and prevention, around 44% of the articles in PubMed were written in Chinese. This prompts the urgent need for quality automatic translation to make such extremely valuable information available to medical personnel in as many languages as possible. We also point out that the community should also make efforts to guarantee editorial quality and to follow the best practices in editing and publishing. This is of critical importance as well, such that the content is properly scrutinized before being published. |
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Epidemics Natural Language Processing Biomedical databases |
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