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

[Khurshid Ahmad]

Greetings
To peer (review) or not to peer (review). Yorick's argument about
academics being busy is a good one and anonymous double blind refereeing
takes substantial effort on part of.  But John Sowa is right that new
entrants, especially non-compliant ones, will have a very difficult time.

LREC is run by its brave pioneers in that they came up with the notion
that we should think about the evaluation of language resources in the
1990s.  There is a small and perhaps remote chance that the pioneer spirit
will lead to an orthodoxy.

I think those who feel confident that their name will not impede their
message they may tick the box 'No blind review' and the new entrants
should have right not to tick the box.

Best wishes

> 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”
>>
>> pl.le Aldo Moro, 5, III Piano, Edificio ex Facoltà di Lettere e
>> Filosofia, 00185 Roma, tel. +30 06 4991 3575
>>
>> E.mail: isabella.chiari at uniroma1.it
>>
>> Website: www.alphabit.net
>>
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