[PRL] ICFP subreferee reports needed

Mitchell Wand wand at ccs.neu.edu
Tue Apr 22 07:47:04 EDT 2008


Please sign up for papers on the wiki page
<https://wiki.ccs.neu.edu/x/TwVQ>.   It's OK for more than one person
to sign up for a paper, especially if
you are an "obvious" choice for the paper.

Reviews from alumni are welcome!  That means you, Paul, and jrm and whoever
else is on the mailing list.  If you can't get to the wiki because you are
no longer at NU, then just use email.

Dave Herman asks:

"Confidential to the lab" means we *can* talk to others in the lab about it,
> right?


Yup.  You could even do the review in pairs, if that works for you.

--Mitch


On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Mitchell Wand <wand at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

> Hi, all--
>
> I'm on the ICFP program committee this year, which means that I have to
> review 20 papers by May 15.
>
> It's typical for PC committee members to solicit "subreferee" reports from
> students and colleagues to help spread the load and get other points of
> view.
>
> So: the papers that I've been assigned are at
> http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/private/icfp-08 .
>
> Rather than having me trying to figure out which papers might be
> interesting to which people, I'm going to ask you to volunteer to review one
> or two papers that you think might be interesting to you.  If I don't get
> volunteers, then I'll go back to the other system :)  I signed up for some
> of these papers precisely because I figured I could get good subreferee
> reports from one or more of you.
>
> Details:
>
>    - For submission number N, there is an abstract at N.html and a
>    submission at N.pdf, and occasionally an appendix at N_attachment.pdf. To my
>    great surprise, the link from the abstract to the full paper seems to work.
>    - Sorry for this crappy organization.  There is a sort of index page
>    at assignments.html .  If anyone would like to go through and turn this into
>    a usable index page with working links, please feel free to do so, and I'll
>    install it.
>    - Please let me know which paper or papers you would like to review.
>    - Since I have to have my reports done by Thursday 5/15, I would
>    like your reports by Monday 5/12.
>    - If you are a grad student, don't spend more than two days on a
>    paper.
>    - Your report needn't be tremendously formal or detailed.  Details
>    on formatting requirements, if any, will be forthcoming.
>    - Look at my csg711 "Professional Resources" web page for useful
>    materials on how to write a referee's report.
>    - Yes, I know you have no idea what the rest of the submission pool
>    looks like.  But you can assess its quality against other ICFP papers you've
>    read in the past, and you can assess internal consistency, clarity, etc.
>    - I will be reading and independently assessing each paper myself,
>    so don't worry about making mistakes in judgement.  If your report is good,
>    I'll rely on it.  If I think you're off base, I'll ignore it.  Either way,
>    you'll get a credit as a referee.
>    - All these are submissions, so you should keep the contents
>    confidential to the lab, unless there is a public copy on the web somewhere.
>
>
> OK, that sounds way more complicated than it is.  I'm sure I've left
> something out; please feel free to ask questions.
>
> Remember, please: refereeing is an important service to the community. The
> better the referee reports, the better and the more reliable the entire
> conference (and journal) submission process is.  So please do your part!
>
> --Mitch
>
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