There were many new initiatives for peer review at this ACL’23, and we present our report on how all this worked. For the first time, it became an official part of the proceedings - so as to provide context for the final program and to make it easier for future chairs and organizers to find this data. The goal is also to improve transparency in the decision process.| ACL 2023
One of frequent complaints at the past conferences was that solid work was rejected for not being “surprising”/”novel”/”too niche”/etc, based on reviewers’ rather subjective views. This is difficult to combat because in a system in which the reviewer provides a single recommendation score, such subjective preferences are inevitably tangled with judgements on the other aspects of the paper.| ACL 2023
Please read the detailed explanation of the form before entering your review.| ACL 2023
based on "How to review for ARR" by Anna Rogers, Isabelle Augenstein modified by Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki| ACL 2023
based on "How to review for ARR" by Anna Rogers, Isabelle Augenstein modified by Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki| ACL 2023
One of the big issues that authors often complain about at NLP conferences is “meh” reviews: the reviewer does not really find any significant problems with methodology or execution of the paper, but the overall recommendation is middling. This can be a symptom of paper-reviewer mismatch: the reviewer just is not sufficiently interested in the overall topic or approach, and hence no matter how good the paper is, it would not elicit much enthusiasm. In a recent survey of authors, reviewers...| ACL 2023
By Andy May Well, it is official, Marty Rowland PhD has been fired from his position as Special Issue Editor at the American Journal of Economics and Sociology (AJES). The reason he was given for b…| Andy May Petrophysicist
Editor's Note: Moms Who Vax has been on an extended hiatus, but we return today with a cross-post of a brief blog post written by Trish Parnell of PKIDs (Parents of Kids with Infectious Diseases). The original post can be found here. | Moms Who Vax
Today the Gates Foundation announced that they will “cease support for individual article publishing fees, known as APCs, and mandate the use of preprints while advocating for their review”. …| Alex Holcombe's blog
David Nicholson gave a lightning talk about his experience going through the pyOpenSci peer review process with his Python package called Crowsetta. Learn more about the people involved in peer review and watch the 5 minute video here.| pyOpenSci