RevManHAL: towards automatic text generation in systematic reviews

摘要: Systematic reviews are a key part of healthcare evaluation. They involve important painstaking but repetitive work. A major producer systematic reviews, the Cochrane Collaboration, employs Review Manager (RevMan) programme—a software which assists reviewers and produces XML-structured files. This paper describes an add-on programme (RevManHAL) helps auto-generate abstract, results discussion sections RevMan-generated in multiple languages. The also future developments for RevManHAL. RevManHAL was created Java using NetBeans by programmer working full time 2 months. resulting open-source uses editable phrase banks to envelop text/numbers from within prepared RevMan file formatted readable text chosen language. In this way, considerable parts review’s ‘abstract’, ‘results’ ‘discussion’ added ‘acknowledgements’. RevManHAL’s output needs be checked reviewers, already, our experience Schizophrenia Group (200 maintained 900 reviewers), has saved much is better employed thinking about meaning data rather than restating them. Many more functions will become possible as review writing becomes increasingly automated.