Soares, F. and Yamashita, G.H. (2020) On the crucial role of multilingual biomedical databases on epidemic events (SARS-CoV-2 analysis). International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 96. pp. 352-354. ISSN 1201-9712
Abstract
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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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Epidemics; Natural Language Processing; Biomedical databases |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Computer Science (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 29 May 2020 09:40 |
Last Modified: | 29 May 2020 09:40 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.05.023 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:161085 |