Comments on: Anonymity and Review http://coling2018.org/anonymity-and-review/ August 20-26, 2018, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Wed, 05 Sep 2018 02:15:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.10 By: Leon Derczynski http://coling2018.org/anonymity-and-review/#comment-2214 Sun, 22 Apr 2018 20:29:40 +0000 http://coling2018.org/?p=1192#comment-2214 Yes, this was disallowed by the ACL policy, which we are following (see the call for papers, for example). We extracted the 30 days prior preprints from various places and ran this through a secure private instance of some duplicate detection software alongside the submitted manuscripts.

]]> By: Suresh Venkat http://coling2018.org/anonymity-and-review/#comment-2211 Sun, 22 Apr 2018 20:10:50 +0000 http://coling2018.org/?p=1192#comment-2211 How did you handle the issue of pre-submission arxiving of papers? Was this explicitly disallowed?

]]> By: Wei Xu http://coling2018.org/anonymity-and-review/#comment-2207 Sun, 22 Apr 2018 18:23:18 +0000 http://coling2018.org/?p=1192#comment-2207 Not allowing area chairs to see the author names might be one of the best changes being made at COLING this year. It makes the decision process much simpler and likely fairer from area chair’s perspectives.

Another good change is adding the explicit categories of papers (survey, reproduction, etc.). It definitely helps to remind the reviewers to be more open-minded of various type of work.

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