What Factors Should Paper-Reviewer Assignments Rely On? Community Perspectives on Issues and Ideals in Conference Peer-Review

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Paper Link: https://openreview.net/forum?id=_KpPHn9ZoBR

Paper Type: Long paper (up to eight pages of content + unlimited references and appendices)

Abstract: Both scientific progress and individual researcher careers depend on the quality of peer review, which in turn depends on paper-reviewer matching. Surprisingly, this problem has been mostly approached as an automated recommendation problem rather than as a matter where different stakeholders (area chairs, reviewers, authors) have accumulated experience worth taking into account. We present the results of the first survey of the NLP community, identifying common issues and perspectives on what factors should be considered by paper-reviewer matching systems. This study contributes actionable recommendations for improving future NLP conferences, and desiderata for interpretable peer review assignments.

Presentation Mode: This paper will be presented in person in Seattle

Copyright Consent Signature (type Name Or NA If Not Transferrable): Terne Sasha Thorn Jakobsen

Copyright Consent Name And Address: University of Copenhagen