[Corpora-List] discussion on reproducibility at ACL 2011 business meeting

John F. Sowa sowa at bestweb.net
Mon Jul 4 20:58:07 UTC 2011


On 7/4/2011 4:25 PM, Mark Sammons wrote:
> Might it not be sufficient to simply encourage this practice without
> formalizing the requirements, and rely on positive feedback to do the job?

Yes.  That's what I was suggesting.

There are many different research practices that have led to important
new discoveries and breakthroughs.  Imposing too many conditions and
restrictions on what is considered publishable is more likely to
inhibit rather than promote progress.

John

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