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- From: gh@cs.toronto.edu (Graeme Hirst)
- Subject: Re: New Problems in IJCAI Reviewing (long)
- Message-ID: <93Jan22.123925edt.298@smoke.cs.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Oscar's Otter Emporium
- Date: 22 Jan 93 17:39:46 GMT
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- Who listens to the referees anyway?
-
- (1) Not always the program committee. For one IJCAI, I reviewed
- a paper by a Well-Known Author that was sloppy, full of holes, and
- badly written, and I said so. But the program committee accepted the
- paper anyway, because of who the author was.
-
- (2) Not always the author. Trying to be helpful, in one review in
- which I rejected a paper, I pointed out a number of consistent errors of
- English made by the author, a non-native speaker. A year later, a
- revised version of the paper was sent for review by a different journal;
- it contained the exact same errors.
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