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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I agree with Yorick. I agree both on the point of<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=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:38.25pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>(i)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>extended abstracts: Several good conferences such as LREC, DAARC and Aslib (Translating and the Computer) operate on extended abstracts – and they have been quite successful, each one of them with distinctive character. <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'>and on the point of<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=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:38.25pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>(ii)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>blind reviewing: Authors in such submissions can be easily worked out and not only some successful conferences, but leading journals do not use blind reviewing<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'>I agree that there is no evidence that anonymity would improve quality…I think our community should be/is responsible enough to declare conflict of interest when asked to review papers where impartiality is difficult…<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:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Freestyle Script"'>Ruslan</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>// Prof. Dr. Ruslan Mitkov<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>\\ Professor of Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>// Head of the Research Group in Computational Linguistics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>\\ Director of the Research Institute for Information and Language Processing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>// Executive Editor of the Journal <i>Natural Language Engineering</i> (Cambridge University Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>\\ Editor-in-Chief of John Benjamin’s book series <i>Natural Language 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style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>// Research Institute website <a href="http://www.wlv.ac.uk/riilp">www.wlv.ac.uk/riilp</a><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'><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><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> corpora-bounces@uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces@uib.no] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Yorick Wilks<br><b>Sent:</b> 30 September 2011 16:27<br><b>To:</b> Eric Ringger<br><b>Cc:</b> 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 lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Greetings.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US 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><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US 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><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US 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><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Regards,</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>--Eric</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span></a><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;border-width:initial;border-color:initial'><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span lang=EN-US 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>[mailto:corpora-bounces@uib.no]<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><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Dear Corpora members,</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US 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><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Does anyone know why? Which is the policy under this decision?</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Best regards,</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Isabella Chiari</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p><span class=style11><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Dipartimento di Scienze documentarie, linguistico-filologiche e geografiche</span></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span class=style11><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Universitą di Roma “La Sapienza”</span></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span class=style11><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>pl.le Aldo Moro, 5, III Piano, Edificio ex Facoltą di Lettere e Filosofia, 00185 Roma, tel. +30 06 4991 3575</span></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span class=style11><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>E.mail:</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></span><span class=style11><span lang=EN-US 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><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span class=style11><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Website:</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></span><span class=style11><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.alphabit.net">www.alphabit.net</a></span></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US 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>
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