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

[Diana Maynard]

Agreed - and a lot of conferences these days actually seem to be moving 
AWAY from blind reviewing (for exactly the reasons that Yorick mentions).
Diana

On 30/09/11 16:27, Yorick Wilks wrote:
> 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

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