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Automating the Horae: Boundary-work in the age of computers [2016]

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Automating the Horae: Boundary-work in the age of computers — HN submission

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Automating the Horae: Boundary-work in the age of computers

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Automating the Horae: Boundary-work in the age of computers — mentioned by mcbits

Mon, 26 Nov 2018 19:23:10 GMT

Arxiv accidentally created a crackpot filter from apparently a simple semantic classifier along with a count of stop words used in the article, which acts as a very coarse "style" metric.[1] Reasonable-looking crackpot work is usually classified as "general physics" instead of being rejected entirely. Unfortunately it also lumps some legitimate but unconventional research in with the crackpots and makes Arxiv itself somewhat of a gatekeeper. What I'm imagining is a sort of layered approach with raw "article" (or some other unit) data at the bottom and indexing, tagging, clustering, filtering…

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