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

[Anil Singh]

Not to forget the fact that getting a visa from countries like India to the
US or to Europe is a project in itself. And it costs quite something. And if
the visa is rejected after all that time, effort and expenditure...
Rejection of visa is not rare at all: for the US (where a substantial
proportion of the highest profile conferences are held) the rate is very
high, especially for gradutate students.


On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Anil Singh <anil.phdcl at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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