Getting Western researchers to not ignore papers published in languages other than English is a serious uphill battle.
During my PhD, I tried to do a truly global literature review of all languages. I tried to be a lot more comprehensive than others before. I got quite good at locating existing English translations of non-English papers [1], and even published around a dozen English translations I produced using Google Translate, DeepL, and Yandex Translate [2]. My PhD advisor clearly disliked this aspect of my research and didn't seem to consider it to be research. Despite that, I remember when one of my papers was being reviewed that a reviewer commented that X was the most valuable contribution of my paper. Problem was that X arguably wasn't a contribution because it came from a Russian paper published back in 1963, as I stated in my paper! Yes, I did a better job at X than they did back in 1963, but it's only a "contribution" because people ignored non-English papers.
Ultimately, I think ignoring non-English papers is one aspect of the larger problem that literature reviews tend to be non-comprehensive. The literature is rarely well organized, and no, LLMs don't solve this problem, though I do think they help and will get better over time in this aspect.
Getting Western researchers to not ignore papers published in languages other than English is a serious uphill battle.
During my PhD, I tried to do a truly global literature review of all languages. I tried to be a lot more comprehensive than others before. I got quite good at locating existing English translations of non-English papers [1], and even published around a dozen English translations I produced using Google Translate, DeepL, and Yandex Translate [2]. My PhD advisor clearly disliked this aspect of my research and didn't seem to consider it to be research. Despite that, I remember when one of my papers was being reviewed that a reviewer commented that X was the most valuable contribution of my paper. Problem was that X arguably wasn't a contribution because it came from a Russian paper published back in 1963, as I stated in my paper! Yes, I did a better job at X than they did back in 1963, but it's only a "contribution" because people ignored non-English papers.
Ultimately, I think ignoring non-English papers is one aspect of the larger problem that literature reviews tend to be non-comprehensive. The literature is rarely well organized, and no, LLMs don't solve this problem, though I do think they help and will get better over time in this aspect.
[1] https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/93209
[2] For example, here's one that I find was way ahead of its time (original was published in 1938) and still arguably had publishable elements back in 2020: https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/items/ca7fc7d3-cf16-4859...
http://archive.today/8rc2k
Oh I know the problem! Its because its all behind paywalls. Lame.