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- From: yang@milton.cs.uiuc.edu (Der-Shung Yang)
- Subject: English vs contents (was Re: New Problems in IJCAI Reviewing)
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- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:36:45 GMT
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- gh@cs.toronto.edu (Graeme Hirst) writes:
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- > (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.
-
- Just curious, did you reject that paper mainly becuase of some consistent
- English errors or because of some other reasons? Also, what will you do
- if you review a paper that is excellent in contents but has some English
- errors here and there (assuming that those English errors do not cause
- any misunderstanding or unclearness)?
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- DerShung Yang
- yang@cs.uiuc.edu
- Beckman Institute
- Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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