Automating document classification with distant supervision to increase the efficiency of systematic reviews: A case study on identifying studies with HIV impacts on female sex workers

• Xiaoxiao Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoxiao Li, Amy Zhang

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America

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• Amy Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoxiao Li, Amy Zhang

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America

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• Rabah Al-Zaidy,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Information and Computer Science Department, King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

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• Amrita Rao,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Stefan Baral,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Le Bao ,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lebao@psu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0191-5918

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• C. Lee Giles

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America

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