Acute respiratory infection: separating the wheat from the chaff

Enhanced: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff

Seeing the world around you is like drinking from a firehose. The flood of information that enters the eyes could easily overwhelm the capacity of the visual system. To solve this problem, a mechanism-attention-allows selective processing of the information relevant to current goals. As the eminent physiological psychologist Helmholtz [HN2], [HN3], [HN4] noted over a hundred years ago, even wit...

Separating Wheat from Chaff in Plant Genomes

0001 The recent discovery of a Hobbit-like hominid on the Indonesian island of Flores was startling in some respects—its rather modern existence, for one—but it represents a classic case of Darwinian evolution. For reasons that are not entirely clear, when animals make their way to isolated islands, they tend to evolve relatively quickly toward an outsized or pint-sized version of their mainlan...

Separating the wheat from the chaff with machine learning

BlogVox: Separating Blog Wheat from Blog Chaff∗

Blog posts are often informally written, poorly structured, rife with spelling and grammatical errors, and feature non-traditional content. These characteristics make them difficult to process with standard language analysis tools. Performing linguistic analysis on blogs is plagued by two additional problems: (i) the presence of spam blogs and spam comments and (ii) extraneous non-content inclu...

Separating Wheat from the Chaff - A Relationship Ranking Algorithm

We address the problem of ranking relationships in an automatically constructed knowledge graph. We propose a probabilistic ranking mechanism that utilizes entity popularity, entity affinity, and support from text corpora for the relationships. Results obtained from preliminary experiments on a standard dataset are encouraging and show that our proposed ranking mechanism can find more informati...