Automatic Analysis of Substantiation in Scientific Peer Reviews
Yanzhu Guo, Guokan Shang, Virgile Rennard, Michalis Vazirgiannis, Chloé Clavel
Abstract
With the increasing amount of problematic peer reviews in top AI conferences, the community is urgently in need of automatic quality control measures. In this paper, we restrict our attention to substantiation — one popular quality aspect indicating whether the claims in a review are sufficiently supported by evidence — and provide a solution automatizing this evaluation process. To achieve this goal, we first formulate the problem as claim-evidence pair extraction in scientific peer reviews, and collect SubstanReview, the first annotated dataset for this task. SubstanReview consists of 550 reviews from NLP conferences annotated by domain experts. On the basis of this dataset, we train an argument mining system to automatically analyze the level of substantiation in peer reviews. We also perform data analysis on the SubstanReview dataset to obtain meaningful insights on peer reviewing quality in NLP conferences over recent years. The dataset is available at https://github.com/YanzhuGuo/SubstanReview.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.findings-emnlp.684
- Volume:
- Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Singapore
- Editors:
- Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, Kalika Bali
- Venue:
- Findings
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 10198–10216
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.684
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.684
- Cite (ACL):
- Yanzhu Guo, Guokan Shang, Virgile Rennard, Michalis Vazirgiannis, and Chloé Clavel. 2023. Automatic Analysis of Substantiation in Scientific Peer Reviews. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, pages 10198–10216, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Automatic Analysis of Substantiation in Scientific Peer Reviews (Guo et al., Findings 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/emnlp-22-attachments/2023.findings-emnlp.684.pdf