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

Fri Sep 30 17:19:10 UTC 2011

I agree with Yorick. I agree both on the point of

(i)                  extended abstracts: Several good conferences such as LREC, DAARC and Aslib (Translating and the Computer) operate on extended abstracts - and they have been quite successful, each one of them with distinctive character.  

and on the point of

(ii)                blind reviewing: Authors in such submissions can be easily worked out and not only some successful conferences, but leading journals do not use blind reviewing

I agree that there is no evidence that anonymity would improve quality...I think our community should be/is  responsible enough to declare conflict of interest when asked to review papers where impartiality is difficult...

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Ruslan

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From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf Of Yorick Wilks
Sent: 30 September 2011 16:27
To: Eric Ringger
Cc: corpora at uib.no
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] why LREC2012 NOT blind-reviewed?

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

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