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Comment author: Stefan_Schubert 10 May 2016 10:26:20AM *  3 points [-]

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Comment author: Lumifer 10 May 2016 03:58:43PM 6 points [-]

Could machine learning be used to fruitfully classify academic articles?

The word "fruitfully" is doing all the heavy lifting here.

It is, of course, possible to throw an ML algorithm at a corpus of academic articles. Will the results be useful? That entirely depends on what do you consider useful. You will certainly get some results.