[Corpora-List] Reviewers

[Anil Singh]

I am in favour of continuing with a peer review process (a non-blind one, as
I wrote in an earlier mail), but only as the first step in in a longer
community review process, not as the last step and the final judgement
(something that it is not, can't be, should not pretend to be and should not
even try to be). The provocation for stating that last part is the fact that
we now even have some very influential reviewers and conference organizers
trying to set up a vigilante kind of process that would ensure that if a
paper gets rejected at one place, it should get rejected everywhere else: by
sharing of information (as if about terrorists!) across these events and
their organizers. It sounded very scary to me when it was first proposed a
few years ago (as far as I know).

And it has turned out be scary.

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Declerck <declerck at dfki.de> wrote:

>  On 01.10.2011 11:20, Yuri Tambovtsev wrote:
>
> Surely, it is good to abolish any reviewers. Usually, the reviewers write
> what they were taught long ago. Besides, they have no time to penetrate into
> the logic construction of the report or article. So, only "grey" products
> are aproved. Brilliant reports or articles are thrown away. So, the
> reviewers make linguistics not brilliant. The other thing is, why the
> reviewers think that they know linguistics better? Why do they think that
> any other linguist cannot distinguish a good article from a bad article? I
> noticed that usually grey articles with nothing to discuss are published.
> Reviewers gladly recommend the articles in which the common and stale ideas
> are repeated. Please, share your ideas on abolishing the reviewers as the
> hindrence of the progress in linguistics to my e-mail addtess
> yutamb at mail.ru  Be well, Yuri Tambovtsev, a reviewer
>
>  Dear All,
>
> Quite interesting discussion going on on the basis of an initial question
> on submission and reviewing procedures at LREC.
>
> Yuri's statement about reviewers is for sure a provocative one, but it
> gives the opportunity to talk about the role of reviewers.
>
> Reviewers are in a Programme/Editorial  Committee and does do not have to
> decide (only) on the quality of a submission, but (also) if the submission
> can contribute to the topics of a workshop (or symposium or conference or
> journal etc.). So that a brilliant paper submission might not be adequate
> for a specific event.
>
> Reviewers also should make comments and suggestions to the authors of the
> submission, this potentially  leading to reactions by the author(s) of the
> submission.
> Reviewers are also not alone in taking decisions, and sometimes various
> reviewers are discussing on one and the same submission.  This together
> with  comments/suggestions on a submission are a kind of "hidden" scientific
> discourse. Maybe something to exploit in the future?
>
> And personally I learn a lot about what is going on in the field on the
> basis of reviewing activity., also reading (interesting) submissions that do
> not make it onto official publications.
> So that I am "voting" against Yuri's suggestion:-)
>
> Thierry
>
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