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

[Yorick Wilks]

I disagree strongly. I dont see why all conferences should be exactly like all others. Extended abstracts are less of a burden on busy academics --both as writers and reviewers----and there is no evidence they lower the final quality; COLING used to do this and I am sorry it changed. The whole blind-review business is a huge nonsense: I rarely meet a paper to review where i cannot identify the authors from a careful trawl of hidden signals and the references. Trying to make a paper genuinely anonymous is almost impossible if one has a body of past work and publication to link it to---the mental gymnastics required are undignified and best avoided. LRECs reputation has grown steadily and it will be the quality of its papers that sustain it--there is no evidence at all anonymity would improve matters in the least. if it ain't broke........
Yorick Wilks


On 30 Sep 2011, at 16:02, Eric Ringger wrote:

> Greetings.
>  
> LREC has been operated in this manner since its inception.  Personally and for the sake of LREC’s reputation, I would like to see the reviewing process for LREC upgraded to double-blind review.
>  
> I believe that LREC fills a couple of important niches: its focus on language resources and evaluation/validation is important and not well served elsewhere, and it does a good job of bringing a large, diverse group together.  (I should add that it does a good job of selecting attractive venues as well!)  If implemented well, I believe that double-blind review would not detract from the primary objectives of the conference but would refine the quality of the program and improve the reputation of the venue.  I have said as much in private feedback after past LRECs.
>  
> I also think it is time for LREC to move up from reviewing extended abstracts to reviewing full papers.
>  
> Regards,
> --Eric
>  
>  
> From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf Of Isabella Chiari
> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 8:45 AM
> To: corpora at uib.no
> Subject: [Corpora-List] why LREC2012 NOT blind-reviewed?
>  
> Dear Corpora members,
> I just noticed that the LREC2012 call specifies that submissions are NOT anonymous and there will not be blind-reviewing.
>  
> Does anyone know why? Which is the policy under this decision?
> Best regards,
> Isabella Chiari
>  
> Dipartimento di Scienze documentarie, linguistico-filologiche e geografiche
> 
> Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
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