Are Non-English Papers Reviewed Fairly? Language-of-Study Bias in NLP Peer Reviews

Ehsan Barkhordar, Abdulfattah Safa, Verena Blaschke +3

Peer review plays a central role in the NLP publication process, but is susceptible to various biases. Here, we study language-of-study (LoS) bias: the tendency for reviewers to ev…