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

[John F. Sowa]

On 9/30/2011 11:27 AM, Yorick Wilks wrote:
> 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.

I agree.

I would also add another point about the reviewing process:  most papers
are reviewed by people who work in the same paradigm.  Inevitably, they
give higher scores to papers that conform to their favorite paradigm.

A colleague of mine received the following *negative* comment about
a paper submitted to a major conference:

    "I never saw anybody do anything like that before."

Fortunately, the paper slipped through the cracks and was accepted
despite that review.  It ended up as a widely cited "minor classic".

John

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