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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Yorick, you must at least agree with me about the locations!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>--Eric<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Yorick Wilks [mailto:Y.Wilks@dcs.shef.ac.uk] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 30, 2011 9:27 AM<br><b>To:</b> Eric Ringger<br><b>Cc:</b> 'Isabella Chiari'; corpora@uib.no<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Corpora-List] why LREC2012 NOT blind-reviewed?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I disagree strongly. I dont see why all conferences should be exactly like all others. Extended abstracts are less of a burden on busy academics --both as writers and reviewers----and there is no evidence they lower the final quality; COLING used to do this and I am sorry it changed. The whole blind-review business is a huge nonsense: I rarely meet a paper to review where i cannot identify the authors from a careful trawl of hidden signals and the references. Trying to make a paper genuinely anonymous is almost impossible if one has a body of past work and publication to link it to---the mental gymnastics required are undignified and best avoided. LRECs reputation has grown steadily and it will be the quality of its papers that sustain it--there is no evidence at all anonymity would improve matters in the least. if it ain't broke........<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Yorick Wilks<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 30 Sep 2011, at 16:02, Eric Ringger wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Greetings.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>LREC has been operated in this manner since its inception. Personally and for the sake of LREC’s reputation, I would like to see the reviewing process for LREC upgraded to double-blind review.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I believe that LREC fills a couple of important niches: its focus on language resources and evaluation/validation is important and not well served elsewhere, and it does a good job of bringing a large, diverse group together. (I should add that it does a good job of selecting attractive venues as well!) If implemented well, I believe that double-blind review would not detract from the primary objectives of the conference but would refine the quality of the program and improve the reputation of the venue. I have said as much in private feedback after past LRECs.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I also think it is time for LREC to move up from reviewing extended abstracts to reviewing full papers.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>--Eric</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;border-width:initial;border-color:initial'><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:corpora-bounces@uib.no">corpora-bounces@uib.no</a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="mailto:[mailto:corpora-bounces@uib.no]">[mailto:corpora-bounces@uib.no]</a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></b>Isabella Chiari<br><b>Sent:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Friday, September 30, 2011 8:45 AM<br><b>To:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="mailto:corpora@uib.no">corpora@uib.no</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>[Corpora-List] why LREC2012 NOT blind-reviewed?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Dear Corpora members,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>I just noticed that the LREC2012 call specifies that submissions are NOT anonymous and there will not be blind-reviewing.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Does anyone know why? Which is the policy under this decision?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Best regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Isabella Chiari</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p><span class=style11><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Dipartimento di Scienze documentarie, linguistico-filologiche e geografiche</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span class=style11><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Università di Roma “La Sapienza”</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span class=style11><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>pl.le Aldo Moro, 5, III Piano, Edificio ex Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, 00185 Roma, tel. +30 06 4991 3575</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span class=style11><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>E.mail:</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></span><span class=style11><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="mailto:isabella.chiari@uniroma1.it">isabella.chiari@uniroma1.it</a></span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span class=style11><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Website:</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></span><span class=style11><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.alphabit.net">www.alphabit.net</a></span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>_______________________________________________<br>UNSUBSCRIBE from this page:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora">http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora</a><br>Corpora mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Corpora@uib.no">Corpora@uib.no</a><br><a href="http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora">http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>