Automatic categorization of self-acknowledged limitations in randomized controlled trial publications

Mengfei Lan, Mandy Cheng, Linh K. Hoang, Gerben ter Riet, Halil Kilicoglu

Abstract: Highlights•Annotated a corpus of RCT publications with self-acknowledged limitation types.•Created a sentence classification model to detect and recognize limitation types.•Analyzed the model output on 12K RCTs to describe the commonly reported limitations.