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Peer Grading the Peer Reviews : A Dual-Role Approach for Lightening the Scholarly Paper Review Process

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    2021
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  • The Web Conference 2021, Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 12-23, 2021. - ACM / IW3C2. - 2021, p. 1-12
English Scientific peer review is pivotal to maintain quality standards for academic publication. The effectiveness of the reviewing process is currently being challenged by the rapid increase of paper submissions in various conferences. Those venues need to recruit a large number of reviewers of different levels of expertise and background. The submitted reviews often do not meet the conformity standards of the conferences. Such a situation poses an ever-bigger burden on the meta-reviewers when trying to reach a final decision. In this work, we propose a human-AI approach that estimates the conformity of reviews to the conference standards. Specifically, we ask peers to grade each other’s reviews anonymously with respect to important criteria of review conformity such as sufficient justification and objectivity. We introduce a Bayesian framework that learns the conformity of reviews from both the peer grading process, historical reviews and decisions of a conference, while taking into account grading reliability. Our approach helps meta-reviewers easily identify reviews that require clarification and detect submissions requiring discussions while not inducing additional overhead from reviewers. Through a large-scale crowdsourced study where crowd workers are recruited as graders, we show that the proposed approach outperforms machine learning or review grades alone and that it can be easily integrated into existing peer review systems.
Faculty
Faculté des sciences et de médecine
Department
Département d'informatique
Language
  • English
Classification
Computer science and technology
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https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/309165
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