Tags: * ARR bad fit for interdisciplinary reviewers
"I'm marginal to ACL. My community is speech. 1) While I""m eager to review a few papers a year for
which my expertise is useful (and understand that sometimes the match may be weak), currently I feel
that ARR is shoving at me an excessive number of papers, which are moreover mostly irrelevant. 2) Most
of the submissions are low quality, making me feel that I'm largely wasting my time. I only want to
review papers that have a good chance of being interesting/valuable, and I've appoximated that in the
past by volunteering to review only for ACL and NAACL, and empatically not EMNLP. For now, I'm dealing
with this situation marking myself as unavailable for months not immediately after an ACL or NAACL dearline.
If these issues doesn't get fixed, I'll just stop reviewing for ACL. "