[Corpora-List] why LREC2012 NOT blind-reviewed?

[Anil Singh]

I mostly agree on this point, except that this is quite a radical proposal
and can be implemented only in the long term. We will need a lot of good
quality journal to replace conference proceedings. Will be these be printed
or purely online? Will those purely online considered to have the same
credibility as those printed (why not?)?

The cost of attending a conference/workshop is, of course, a major hurdle
for all researchers in developing countries. Nowadays even registration fee
is so high that it is hard to afford it (say, in India) just for one author,
even if no one travels abroad to attend the event and present the paper. And
no solution for this is in sight (never mind the Emerging Economy, New
Economic Powerhouses  etc.). We are clearly being told explicity to not try
to publish in conferences, but to try for journals (students by supervisors
and administration, teachers/researchers by administrations and funding
agencies). Easy to say, but how many journals are out there for the whole of
CL/NLP (as compared to the number conferences and workshops)?

Still, shifting to journals from conferences (for publication) is something
that has to happen in CL/NLP.

The academic evaluation forms (in India at least) give a much higher
weightage to journal publications than to conference publications, which is
a big disadvantage for those working in CL/NLP under the current situation.

Of course, as even Church (2005) had hinted, there is practical problem
involved. Conference publications mean registrations and registrations mean
$$. Where will the money for the journals come from? Who will sponsor them?
If commercial publishers publish them, won't other factors come in which
might affect their cridibility?

Just some doubts. But generally I support the idea.


On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Gemma Boleda <gemma.boleda at upf.edu> wrote:

> Dear list members,
>
> some of the concerns that have been raised in this discussion, such as
> reviewer load and "incrementality" in papers, could be addressed if the
> field moved to journal, rather than conference, publishing, and used
> conferences for dissemination of ideas (where only abstracts would be
> reviewed) and journals for actual publication. This would have the positive
> side-effect of making the citation indices of computational linguistics as a
> subfield go up, thus making it more visible in the "scientific market". For
> a 1.5-page long elaboration of these ideas, see http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~**
> gboleda/pubs/gboleda_**publishingCL.pdf<http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~gboleda/pubs/gboleda_publishingCL.pdf>
>
> Best,
> Gemma Boleda
>
>
>
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