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

[Vlado Keselj]

> > there is also the practice that some
> > of us have of running papers we are going to review through
> > commercial (or otherwise) plagiarism detection services.
> 
> You may not realize it, but you do *not* have the right to do that.  
> These services retain anything you submit them, which is not something 
> you can authorize for a not-yet-published paper you don't have copyright 
> to.
> 
> And it's extremely annoying for an author to be rejected because "that 
> has already been published", when in practice the previous version of 
> the paper has been rejected at another conference and you have enhanced 
> it since.  Incompetent reviewers that says to something has already been 
> published without giving a citation are already annoying enough as it 
> is.

I would like to agree with this comment. (Thanks Galibert for expressing
it so clearly.)  While checking for plagiarism in submitted papers is
justified, it is alarming that a paper would be submitted to a commercial
service, like the ones mentioned.  I do not even use them with student
papers, for justified objections by students.

I guess, one can see a positive side to it: Authors can always be happy -
even if their paper was rejected and they did not get to contribute to the
science in an open way, they made an anonymous contribution to the wealth
of a company. :-)

On the research side, I think that it is an interesting research problem 
to describe a model where a paper can be checked for plagiarism with an 
option of not communicating the full paper but to use only a subset of 
n-grams, or substrings in general.
(Another solution is that a company agrees to check paper for 
plagiarism, but not to keep it in their repository.)


Regards,
Vlado

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