title: BabelMeSH: development of a cross-language tool for MEDLINE/PubMed.
abstract: BabelMeSH is a cross-language tool for searching MEDLINE/PubMed. Queries can be submitted as single terms or complex phrases in French, Spanish and Portuguese. Citations will be sent to the user in English. It uses a smart parser interface with a medical terms database in MySQL. Preliminary evaluation using compound key words in foreign language medical journals showed an accuracy of 68%, 60% and 51% for French, Spanish and Portuguese, respectively. Development is continuing.
authors.affiliation: National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA.
authors.forename: Fang
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ackerman
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fontelo
mesh_terms: D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D007802:Language; D016239:MEDLINE; D046650:Medical Subject Headings; D039781:PubMed; D014175:Translating; D014584:User-Computer Interface