Classifying Scientific Papers with Universal Sentence Embeddings

How to teach a computer to tell the difference between astrophysics and computer science.

For several years by now, computers have been achieving an almost human-like ability to identify buildings, animals and other objects thanks to wondrous advancements in computer vision. The breakthrough that made this possible is a combination of theoretical intuitions (i.e. the introduction of convolutional neural networks, back in the 1980s) and hardware (thanks to the…