ARR

ACL 2025年5月的ARR cycle已经出分了，估计这会儿学术圈又忙起来了，作者在忙着写rebuttal，AC在忙着找紧急审稿。而我这个审稿人却感觉格外的轻松，因为这次看的论文分都太低了，估计作者都不会来rebuttal，自然我也不用再回复作者。 这一次给我分的都是RAG和Hallucination方向的论文，我一共审了5篇，打分情况是3篇2分，2篇2.5分。说实话，总体上我已经抬一手了，全凭良心打的话，还要更低一点。 给不熟悉ARR评分标准的读者稍微补充一下，ARR是5分制，分以下9档： 5 = Consider for Award: I think this paper could be considered for an outstanding paper award at an *ACL conference (up to top 2.5% papers). 4.5 = Borderline Award 4.0 = Conference: I think this paper could be accepted to an *ACL conference. 3.5 = Borderline Conference 3 = Findings: I think this paper could be accepted to the Findings of the ACL. 2.5 = Borderline Findings 2 = Resubmit next cycle: I think this paper needs substantial revisions that can be completed by the next ARR cycle....

The scores for ACL 2025’s May ARR cycle have been released, and I imagine the academic community is busy again—authors scrambling to write rebuttals, area chairs frantically searching for emergency reviewers. Yet as a reviewer, I feel exceptionally relaxed because the papers I reviewed scored so low that I doubt the authors will even bother with rebuttals, which means I won’t need to respond either. This round, I was assigned papers in RAG and Hallucination directions....