What Can We Do to Improve Peer Review in NLP?
Anna Rogers, Isabelle Augenstein · 2020
Peer review is our best tool for judging the quality of conference submissions, but it is becoming increasingly spurious.We argue that a part of the problem is that the reviewers and area chairs face a poorly defined task forcing apples-to-oranges comparisons.There are several potential ways forward, but the key difficulty is creating the incentives and mechanisms for their consistent implementation in the NLP community.