NIPS & double blind reviewing

[S. Becker]

Two of the key factors NIPS reviewers are asked to comment on are a 
paper's significance and originality. Very often work is submitted to NIPS  
that is only a marginal advancement over the author's previous 
work, or worse yet, the same paper has already appeared at another 
conference or in a journal. In the course of reviewing for NIPS I have 
often looked at an author's web page, past NIPS proceedings etc to assess 
the closeness to the author's previously published work.  Double-blind 
reviewing would make it much more difficult to detect this sort of thing.    

-- 
Sue Becker, Associate Professor  Department of Psychology, McMaster University 
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