Can ChatGPT write a good boolean query for systematic review literature search?

S Wang, H Scells, B Koopman, G Zuccon - Proceedings of the 46th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Systematic reviews are comprehensive literature reviews for a highly focused research
question. These reviews are considered the highest form of evidence in medicine. Complex …

[HTML][HTML] Search strategy formulation for systematic reviews: Issues, challenges and opportunities

A MacFarlane, T Russell-Rose, F Shokraneh - Intelligent Systems with …, 2022 - Elsevier
Systematic literature reviews play a vital role in identifying the best available evidence for
health and social care research, policy, and practice. The resources required to produce …

CLEF 2018 technologically assisted reviews in empirical medicine overview

E Kanoulas, D Li, L Azzopardi… - CEUR workshop …, 2018 - pureportal.strath.ac.uk
Conducting a systematic review is a widely used method to obtain an overview over the
current scientific consensus on a topic of interest, by bringing together multiple studies in a …

Zero-shot generative large language models for systematic review screening automation

S Wang, H Scells, S Zhuang, M Potthast… - … on Information Retrieval, 2024 - Springer
Systematic reviews are crucial for evidence-based medicine as they comprehensively
analyse published research findings on specific questions. Conducting such reviews is often …

Automatic document screening of medical literature using word and text embeddings in an active learning setting

A Carvallo, D Parra, H Lobel, A Soto - Scientometrics, 2020 - Springer
Document screening is a fundamental task within Evidence-based Medicine (EBM), a
practice that provides scientific evidence to support medical decisions. Several approaches …

Generating natural language queries for more effective systematic review screening prioritisation

S Wang, H Scells, B Koopman, M Potthast… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Screening prioritisation in medical systematic reviews aims to rank the set of documents
retrieved by complex Boolean queries. Prioritising the most important documents ensures …

Dense Retrieval with Continuous Explicit Feedback for Systematic Review Screening Prioritisation

X Mao, S Zhuang, B Koopman, G Zuccon - Proceedings of the 47th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The goal of screening prioritisation in systematic reviews is to identify relevant documents
with high recall and rank them in early positions for review. This saves reviewing effort if …

A Reproducibility and Generalizability Study of Large Language Models for Query Generation

M Staudinger, W Kusa, F Piroi, A Lipani… - Proceedings of the 2024 …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Systematic literature reviews (SLRs) are a cornerstone of academic research, yet they are
often labour-intensive and time-consuming due to the detailed literature curation process …

A study of an automatic stop** strategy for technologically assisted medical reviews

GM Di Nunzio - Advances in Information Retrieval: 40th European …, 2018 - Springer
Systematic medical reviews are a method to collect the findings from multiple studies in a
reliable way. Given budget and time constraints, limiting the recall of a search may …

You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks: Rank Fusion applied to Coordination Level Matching for Ranking in Systematic Reviews

H Scells, G Zuccon, B Koopman - … Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2020 …, 2020 - Springer
Coordination level matching is a ranking method originally proposed to rank documents
given Boolean queries that is now several decades old. Rank fusion is a relatively recent …