Towards Reliable Paper Contributions Annotation in the ACL Rolling Review
Julien Aubert-B\'educhaud, Florian Boudin, Akiko Aizawa, Beatrice Daille, Richard Dufour
Abstract
With the rapid growth of scientific publications, researchers struggle to efficiently assess the relevance of numerous papers. Identifying the types of contributions an article makes can help readers quickly grasp its significance. The ACL Rolling Review (ARR) introduced a typology requiring authors to specify their contributions to improve review quality and fairness. However, the current typology lacks clear definitions and guidance, leading to inconsistent labeling and raising concerns about its reliability.Our re-annotation campaign reveals substantial disagreement between authors and domain experts. Moreover, the predictions of large language models (LLMs), when compared with expert annotations, tend to be close to those provided by the authors. These findings suggest a potential path toward better annotation reliability within the ARR process.- Anthology ID:
- 2026.findings-acl.178
- Volume:
- Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2026
- Address:
- San Diego, California, United States
- Editors:
- Maria Liakata, Viviane P. Moreira, Jiajun Zhang, David Jurgens
- Venue:
- Findings
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3636–3653
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.findings-acl.178/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Julien Aubert-B\'educhaud, Florian Boudin, Akiko Aizawa, Beatrice Daille, and Richard Dufour. 2026. Towards Reliable Paper Contributions Annotation in the ACL Rolling Review. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026, pages 3636–3653, San Diego, California, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Towards Reliable Paper Contributions Annotation in the ACL Rolling Review (Aubert-B'educhaud et al., Findings 2026)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.findings-acl.178.pdf