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

[Alexander Osherenko]

Maybe, a blind-review can be understood as some sort of justice. I "don't"
know the authors, so it is fair that the authors don't know who is reviewing
my paper. Otherwise, everybody knew who says: "I never saw anybody do
anything like that before."

2011/9/30 John F. Sowa <sowa at bestweb.net>

> 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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