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- From: gh@cs.toronto.edu (Graeme Hirst)
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- Subject: Re: English vs contents (was Re: New Problems in IJCAI Reviewing)
- Message-ID: <93Jan24.105655est.47623@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 15:57:15 GMT
- References: <93Jan22.123925edt.298@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> <C19qD9.Dn7@cs.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <C19qD9.Dn7@cs.uiuc.edu> yang@milton.cs.uiuc.edu (Der-Shung Yang) writes:
- >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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- Assuming that the paper is comprehensible, then the acceptance decision
- should be based on the content -- and will be, if I referee it. But a
- referee who, trying to be helpful, also points out errors in the English
- does expect the author to correct those errors -- especially in the case
- of conference papers, which, unlike journal papers, will not be polished
- by a publisher's copy-editor.
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