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most citedPeerReview4All: Fair and Accurate Reviewer Assignment in Peer Review

28 citations · 85 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.IR2023

A Gold Standard Dataset for the Reviewer Assignment Problem

Ivan Stelmakh, John Wieting, Sarina Xi +2

Many peer-review venues are using algorithms to assign submissions to reviewers. The crux of such automated approaches is the notion of the "similarity score" -- a numerical estima…

cs.LG2022

How do Authors' Perceptions of their Papers Compare with Co-authors' Perceptions and Peer-review Decisions?

Charvi Rastogi, Ivan Stelmakh, Alina Beygelzimer +7

How do author perceptions match up to the outcomes of the peer-review process and perceptions of others? In a top-tier computer science conference (NeurIPS 2021) with more than 23,…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

ASQA: Factoid Questions Meet Long-Form Answers

Ivan Stelmakh, Yi Luan, Bhuwan Dhingra +1

An abundance of datasets and availability of reliable evaluation metrics have resulted in strong progress in factoid question answering (QA). This progress, however, does not easil…

cs.DL2022★ 19 cited

Cite-seeing and Reviewing: A Study on Citation Bias in Peer Review

Ivan Stelmakh, Charvi Rastogi, Ryan Liu +3

Citations play an important role in researchers' careers as a key factor in evaluation of scientific impact. Many anecdotes advice authors to exploit this fact and cite prospective…

cs.DL2022★ 3 cited

To ArXiv or not to ArXiv: A Study Quantifying Pros and Cons of Posting Preprints Online

Charvi Rastogi, Ivan Stelmakh, Xinwei Shen +4

Double-blind conferences have engaged in debates over whether to allow authors to post their papers online on arXiv or elsewhere during the review process. Independently, some auth…

cs.SD2021★ 1 cited

CrowdSpeech and VoxDIY: Benchmark Datasets for Crowdsourced Audio Transcription

Nikita Pavlichenko, Ivan Stelmakh, Dmitry Ustalov

Domain-specific data is the crux of the successful transfer of machine learning systems from benchmarks to real life. In simple problems such as image classification, crowdsourcing…

stat.ML2020★ 4 cited

Debiasing Evaluations That are Biased by Evaluations

Jingyan Wang, Ivan Stelmakh, Yuting Wei +1

It is common to evaluate a set of items by soliciting people to rate them. For example, universities ask students to rate the teaching quality of their instructors, and conference…

cs.HC2020★ 5 cited

A Large Scale Randomized Controlled Trial on Herding in Peer-Review Discussions

Ivan Stelmakh, Charvi Rastogi, Nihar B. Shah +2

Peer review is the backbone of academia and humans constitute a cornerstone of this process, being responsible for reviewing papers and making the final acceptance/rejection decisi…

cs.HC2020★ 1 cited

A Novice-Reviewer Experiment to Address Scarcity of Qualified Reviewers in Large Conferences

Ivan Stelmakh, Nihar B. Shah, Aarti Singh +1

Conference peer review constitutes a human-computation process whose importance cannot be overstated: not only it identifies the best submissions for acceptance, but, ultimately, i…

cs.DL2020★ 7 cited

Prior and Prejudice: The Novice Reviewers' Bias against Resubmissions in Conference Peer Review

Ivan Stelmakh, Nihar B. Shah, Aarti Singh +1

Modern machine learning and computer science conferences are experiencing a surge in the number of submissions that challenges the quality of peer review as the number of competent…

cs.MA2020

Catch Me if I Can: Detecting Strategic Behaviour in Peer Assessment

Ivan Stelmakh, Nihar B. Shah, Aarti Singh

We consider the issue of strategic behaviour in various peer-assessment tasks, including peer grading of exams or homeworks and peer review in hiring or promotions. When a peer-ass…

stat.ME2019★ 15 cited

On Testing for Biases in Peer Review

Ivan Stelmakh, Nihar B. Shah, Aarti Singh

We consider the issue of biases in scholarly research, specifically, in peer review. There is a long standing debate on whether exposing author identities to reviewers induces bias…

stat.ML2018★ 28 cited

PeerReview4All: Fair and Accurate Reviewer Assignment in Peer Review

Ivan Stelmakh, Nihar B. Shah, Aarti Singh

We consider the problem of automated assignment of papers to reviewers in conference peer review, with a focus on fairness and statistical accuracy. Our fairness objective is to ma…