Peer Reviewing is a burning problem in linguistics
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_______________________________________________ Corpora mailing list Corpora <at> uib.no http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corporaDear Corpora colleagues, I started the discussion on Peer Reviewing and I am quite happy about it. It looks that it is a burning question in linguistics. I agree with those who say that Peer Reviewing results are not satisfactory. It usually forces the author to go along the way he does not like even if the article is published with changes. Peer Reviewing makes the article more primitive and common. One should remove all innovations and new theories. It makes the article more common and not so interesting. It also makes the waiting process too long while our life is so short= Can we afford it? I feel it is a waiste of time of your life. Recently I received two reviews from Linguistica Uralica. The first reviewer wrote that that article has too much new original information and therefore the readers shall not understand it. The other reviewer wrote that there was no new information and therefore it shall not be interesting for the readers. I wonder if the editor read these two contradictory statements before sending them to me? The edotors of the great linguistics journal LANGUAGE usually answered me that my articles are not in the scope of their journal as if I wrote my articles not about languages but about how to collect potatoes in the fields. It was always so. I think they had too many areticles to get published. So they had to reject 90% articles any way. Surely, I published my articles which were rejected in other journals. I am sure the peer reviewing process must be reconsidered. The reviewers must answer for what they wrote. The only way is to open the names of the reviewers. Why should I hide my name if I gave a negative review? If I think the article is bad, then I must say it openly. Otherwise, it is not logical. Otherwise, all the speakers at conferences should also cover their faces if they want to criticize other linguists. Now that the reviewers know that their names are under cover , they write what their LEFT LEG wants. They do not answer for what they write. In courts all judges and lawyers who want to condem a criminal must also cover their faces. But they do not do it. They have great risks, but still they do not hide their names, they sign the papers with their true names. Why should the reviewer cover their names? If they really believe in what they write, they should openly say so. So, I wonder if the general linguistic public support my preposal not to let the reviewers hide their names. Looking forward to hearing from you soon to yutamb <at> mail.ru Yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev
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I think it would be best for this list to focus on corpus linguistics - while interesting to some I am sure, there must be a better forum for discussions of issues such as 'peer review'. ________________________________ From: corpora-bounces <at> uib.no on behalf of Yuri Tambovtsev Sent: Thu 01/04/2010 12:12 To: corpora <at> uib.no Subject: [Corpora-List] Peer Reviewing is a burning problem in linguistics Dear Corpora colleagues, I started the discussion on Peer Reviewing and I am quite happy about it. It looks that it is a burning question in linguistics. I agree with those who say that Peer Reviewing results are not satisfactory. It usually forces the author to go along the way he does not like even if the article is published with changes. Peer Reviewing makes the article more primitive and common. One should remove all innovations and new theories. It makes the article more common and not so interesting. It also makes the waiting process too long while our life is so short= Can we afford it? I feel it is a waiste of time of your life. Recently I received two reviews from Linguistica Uralica. The first reviewer wrote that that article has too much new original information and therefore the readers shall not understand it. The other reviewer wrote that there was no new information and therefore it shall not be interesting for the readers. I wonder if the editor read these two contradictory statements before sending them to me? The edotors of the great linguistics journal LANGUAGE usually answered me that my articles are not in the scope of their journal as if I wrote my articles not about languages but about how to collect potatoes in the fields. It was always so. I think they had too many areticles to get published. So they had to reject 90% articles any way. Surely, I published my articles which were rejected in other journals. I am sure the peer reviewing process must be reconsidered. The reviewers must answer for what they wrote. The only way is to open the names of the reviewers. Why should I hide my name if I gave a negative review? If I think the article is bad, then I must say it openly. Otherwise, it is not logical. Otherwise, all the speakers at conferences should also cover their faces if they want to criticize other linguists. Now that the reviewers know that their names are under cover , they write what their LEFT LEG wants. They do not answer for what they write. In courts all judges and lawyers who want to condem a criminal must also cover their faces. But they do not do it. They have great risks, but still they do not hide their names, they sign the papers with their true names. Why should the reviewer cover their names? If they really believe in what they write, they should openly say so. So, I wonder if the general linguistic public support my preposal not to let the reviewers hide their names. Looking forward to hearing from you soon to yutamb <at> mail.ru Yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev _______________________________________________ Corpora mailing list Corpora <at> uib.no http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora
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Hi, At the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, we have had on line a multilingual chatter bot (English, Italian and German) -- BoB (Bolzano Bot) -- to answer user questions about the Library of FUB: http://web.inf.unibz.it/bob/?popup=yes&language=en It has been online since October 2008 for English, since February 2009 for German and since September 2009 for Italian. We are now working on cleaning up the logs from personal names for privacy reasons. Let me know if they can be of help. We have also annotated the logs with info such as: Topic Continuation, Topic Shift, etc.. More detailed info will be posted as soon as the logs are available --- hopefully by end of May. The project has been carried out by KRDB members together with the University Library staff. Raffaella ========================================================== Erasmus Mundus European Masters Programs in Computational Logic http://www.computational-logic.eu Language and Communication Technologies http://www.inf.unibz.it/mcs/lct/ ========================================================== ------------------------------------------------------- Raffaella Bernardi | Free University of Bozen-Bolzano | Faculty of Computer Science | P.zza Domenicani, 3 | I-39100 Bolzano | Room: 2.19 | Phone:+39 0471 0 16122 | Fax: +39 0471 0 16009 http://www.inf.unibz.it/~bernardi -------------------------------------------------------- On Mar 28, 2010, at 7:08 PM, Konstantina Garoufi wrote: > Dear Carlos, > > the GIVE-2 corpus of Giving Instructions in Virtual Environments > (currently in English and German) may be useful to you: > > http://www.give-challenge.org/research/page.php?id=give-2-corpus > > Best, > Konstantina > > > Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:13:05 -0400 > From: Carlos Gómez Gallo <cgallo <at> fas.harvard.edu> > Subject: [Corpora-List] Task-based Dialogue Comparable Corpora > To: corpora <corpora <at> uib.no> > > Dear Corpora-list members, > I am working on compiling a list of task-based dialogue corpora such > as ATIS, Maptask, and TRAINS. In the type of data set I am interested, > there are usually two interlocutors (or one human interlocutor and a > dialogue system) who collaborate in executing a common task. I am > particularly interested in corpora that has been collected in two > languages or more. In other words, that the experiment/task/session > was run in more than one language. This corpus would allow the > comparison of linguistic forms of those languages in contrast (hence, > comparable corpus; and not parallel corpus which I take it to mean the > translation of a corpus into at least another language). > Your responses are greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Carlos Gómez Gallo > _______________________________________________ > Corpora mailing list > Corpora <at> uib.no > http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora _______________________________________________ Corpora mailing list Corpora <at> uib.no http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora
Dear corpora members, Where to begin? To what extent are we able to separate langue from parole in corpora (Ferdinand de Saussure, 1986)? By that - and I may be mis-using the terms - I mean that structure which is considered "belonging to the language", and that which is considered "belonging to the thing being said". Do statistical techniques allow us to separate these (as a perhaps naive example: those things which are "significantly" recurrent in the corpus being langue, the remaining "noise" being parole)? Or does corpus-based research to date seem to indicate that these things are inseperable? And if they are inseparable, how then can we design systems which exploit a given langage (langue) to interpret or convey a given message (parole). (this is a serious question - please feel free to change the subject line if it fails to sustain any amusement) Justin Washtell University of Leeds ________________________________________ From: corpora-bounces <at> uib.no [corpora-bounces <at> uib.no] On Behalf Of Mcenery, Tony [eiaamme <at> exchange.lancs.ac.uk] Sent: 01 April 2010 11:57 To: corpora <at> uib.no Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Peer Reviewing is a burning problem in linguistics I think it would be best for this list to focus on corpus linguistics - while interesting to some I am sure, there must be a better forum for discussions of issues such as 'peer review'. _______________________________________________ Corpora mailing list Corpora <at> uib.no http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora
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------- Apologies for multiple postings ------- ====================================================== Final Call for Abstracts, Extended Deadline : April 10 ====================================================== Workshop BioTM-2010: Advances in Bio Text Mining May 10-11, 2010, Ghent, Belgium http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/BioTM2010/index.html On popular demand, we have decided to postpone the final submission deadline to *Saturday, April 10, 2010* ============================================================ Abstracts are invited for the two-day workshop to be held in Ghent on the 10th and 11th of May 2010. Authors of selected abstracts will present their work in a five minute bullet talk and their posters will be presented in a poster session. Submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the organising committee. The best abstracts will be published in an abstract supplement of BMC Bioinformatics (http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcbioinformatics/). Submission deadline: April 10, 2010. ============================================================ The program of the workshop includes: - an extensive tutorial on Bio Text Mining by Martin Krallinger - invited talks by leading scientists in the field: Sampo Pyysalo, Kevin Cohen and Filip Ginter - invited talks by experienced scientists from industry: Jean-Marc Neefs, Luc Dehaspe and Maté Ongenaert ============================================================ Text mining has become indispensible in many biological and biomedical sciences. Having to keep up with an increasing number of publications, text mining techniques enable retrieval and analysis of large amounts of documents in a fully automated fashion. They allow for extraction of facts described in the literature that have not yet been recorded in databases, thus providing a necessary tool to obtain a complete overview of all available knowledge. Recently, the application of text mining and natural language processing techniques to the biological and medical sciences has recieved increasing interest. In addition to many new workshops and conferences arising in this domain, recently also a number of community-wide tasks were conducted to benchmark text mining techniques on specific challenges (e.g. BioCreative, BioNLP Shared Task, ...). By discussing the latest developments and potentially new applications in text mining amongst scientists in both academia and industry, this workshop aims to provide a broad view on text mining tools in biology and biomedicine. We are reaching out to a broad public, including researchers with an interest in text mining but with little or no experience in this domain. To this end, the workshop will start with an extensive tutorial on text mining in the bio-sciences, providing sufficient background knowledge for novices. Next, a number of keynote talks will be given by leading scientists, presenting the latest advances in the field. Furthermore, participants are highly encouraged to submit an abstract describing their own work. They will be given the opportunity to present this work in 5min flash presentations, as well as to present a poster during the coffee and lunch breaks. The best abstracts will be published in an abstract supplement of BMC Bioinformatics (http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcbioinformatics/). Finally, we plan on having a round-table discussion about the broader applicability of text-mining tools in the biological sciences, trying to bridge the gap between theoretical algorithms and experimental work. ============================================================ SUBMISSIONS: SCOPE Submissions should present work related to any aspect of biomedical text mining and bioinformatics. Additionally, we strongly encourage submissions that describe shortcomings of current existing techniques, tools, or resources, in order to detect problematic issues and work towards their improvement. SUBMISSIONS: INSTRUCTIONS An abstract of maximum 400 words with at most 1 table or figure should be submitted to the following e-mail address in pdf format: biotm2010 at gmail dot com Submission is blind. Detailed formatting instructions can be found at http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/BioTM2010/call.html ============================================================ IMPORTANT DATES 10 April 2010 Submission deadline 15 April 2010 Notification of acceptance 30 April 2010 Camera-ready abstracts due 10-11 May 2010 Workshop in Ghent ============================================================ ORGANISATION / PROGRAM COMMITTEE Yvan Saeys Thomas Abeel Sofie Van Landeghem Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics group VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology Ghent University, Belgium Walter Daelemans Roser Morante Vincent Van Asch CLiPS - Text Mining Group Faculty of Arts University of Antwerp, Belgium Roser Morante Senior Researcher CLiPS - Computational Linguistics University of Antwerp http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/~roser Roser.Morante <at> ua.ac.be _______________________________________________ Corpora mailing list Corpora <at> uib.no http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora
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