Semi-automated screening of biomedical citations for systematic reviews
Open Access
- 26 January 2010
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Bioinformatics
- Vol. 11 (1), 55
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-11-55
Abstract
Systematic reviews address a specific clinical question by unbiasedly assessing and analyzing the pertinent literature. Citation screening is a time-consuming and critical step in systematic reviews. Typically, reviewers must evaluate thousands of citations to identify articles eligible for a given review. We explore the application of machine learning techniques to semi-automate citation screening, thereby reducing the reviewers' workload.Keywords
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