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2024

I am joining ACL Rolling Review

2 minute read

It’s official: I joined the ACL Rolling Review team as an editor-in-chief, and I’d like to share some brief thoughts on this.

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2023

[ACL 2023] Peer Review Report

less than 1 minute read

This post (at ACL conference website) summarizes the analysis of ACL’23 peer review process: https://2023.aclweb.org/blog/review-report/. The full analysis i...

Closed AI Models Make Bad Baselines

24 minute read

Will GPT-4 become a universally expected baseline in NLP research, like BERT in its time? Basic scientific methodology demands otherwise.

[ACL 2023] Paper-Reviewer Matching

less than 1 minute read

As a program chair of ACL’23, I was the lead author for this blog post on the conference website that summarized our approach to peer-review matching: https:...

[ACL 2023] Generative AI Policy

less than 1 minute read

This blog post (on the conference website) summarized our approach to the use of generative AI in ACL conference submissions and reviewing: https://2023.aclw...

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2022

The attribution problem with generative AI

15 minute read

Some argue that any publicly available text/art data is fair game for commercial models because human text/art also has sources. But unlike models, we know w...

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2021

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2020

Peer review in NLP: reject-if-not-SOTA

10 minute read

Many reviewers at major NLP conferences tend to reject models that fail to beat state-of-the-art. It is a heuristic that is simple, convenient, and wrong.

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2019

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