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Globally, recommendation services have become important due to the fact that they support e-commerce applications and different research communities. Recommender systems have a large number of applications in many fields including economic,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Xiaomei Bai , Mengyang Wang , Ivan Lee , Zhuo Yang , Xiangjie Kong , Feng Xia

In the peer review process of top-tier machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) conferences, reviewers are assigned to papers through automated methods. These assignment algorithms consider two main factors: (1) reviewers'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Jhih-Yi Hsieh , Aditi Raghunathan , Nihar B. Shah

Peer-review plays a critical role in the scientific writing and publication ecosystem. To assess the efficiency and efficacy of the reviewing process, one essential element is to understand and evaluate the reviews themselves. In this work,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Xinyu Hua , Mitko Nikolov , Nikhil Badugu , Lu Wang

The advent of computers has allowed mathematicians to do increasingly more difficult computations that used to be practically impossible. Peer reviewers will seldom look at any code attached to a math paper, however. In this article, we…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Jeroen Hanselman

The rapid expansion of AI research has intensified the Reviewer Gap, threatening the peer-review sustainability and perpetuating a cycle of low-quality evaluations. This position paper critiques existing LLM approaches that automatically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-15 JungMin Yun , JuneHyoung Kwon , MiHyeon Kim , YoungBin Kim

In this paper, we present a mathematical model to capture various factors which may influence the accuracy of a competitive group recommendation system. We apply this model to peer review systems, i.e., conference or research grants review,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-04-13 Hong Xie , John C. S. Lui

Conference peer review constitutes a human-computation process whose importance cannot be overstated: not only it identifies the best submissions for acceptance, but, ultimately, it impacts the future of the whole research area by promoting…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Ivan Stelmakh , Nihar B. Shah , Aarti Singh , Hal Daumé

Background. Reproducibility is essential to the scientific method, but reproduction is often a laborious task. Recent works have attempted to automate this process and relieve researchers of this workload. However, due to varying…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Thijs Snelleman , Peter Lundestad Lawrence , Holger H. Hoos , Odd Erik Gundersen

Peer-reviewed conferences, the main publication venues in CS, rely critically on matching highly qualified reviewers for each paper. Because of the growing scale of these conferences, the tight timelines on which they operate, and a recent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Kevin Leyton-Brown , Mausam , Yatin Nandwani , Hedayat Zarkoob , Chris Cameron , Neil Newman , Dinesh Raghu

We present the problem of finding comparable researchers for any given researcher. This problem has many motivations. Firstly, know thyself. The answers of where we stand among research community and who we are most alike may not be easily…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Graham Cormode , S. Muthukrishnan , Jinyun Yan

Conducting a systematic review (SR) is comprised of multiple tasks: (i) collect documents (studies) that are likely to be relevant from digital libraries (eg., PubMed), (ii) manually read and label the documents as relevant or irrelevant,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Grace E. Lee , Aixin Sun

Several studies have evaluated automatic techniques for classifying software issue reports to assist practitioners in effectively assigning relevant resources based on the type of issue. Currently, no comprehensive overview of this area has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Muhammad Laiq , Felix Dobslaw

The number of papers submitted to academic conferences is steadily rising in many scientific disciplines. To handle this growth, systems for automatic paper-reviewer assignments are increasingly used during the reviewing process. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Thorsten Eisenhofer , Erwin Quiring , Jonas Möller , Doreen Riepel , Thorsten Holz , Konrad Rieck

Systematic reviews, which entail the extraction of data from large numbers of scientific documents, are an ideal avenue for the application of machine learning. They are vital to many fields of science and philanthropy, but are very…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant , Alexander Robertson , Jasmina Lazic , Theodora Tsouloufi , Louise Donnison , Karen Smyth

Reproducing scientific analyses is essential for preserving knowledge, building extensible codebases, and deepening researcher understanding - yet the effort often outweighs its academic recognition. We argue that the reproduction of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-22 Joschka Birk , Gregor Kasieczka , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Benjamin Nachman , Dennis Noll , Tanvi Wamorkar

The increasing volume of papers and proposals that undergo peer review emphasizes the pressing need for greater automation to effectively manage the growing scale. In this study, we present the deployment and evaluation of machine learning…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-20 John M. Carpenter , Andrea Corvillón , Nihar B. Shah

Automated reviewer recommendation for scientific conferences currently relies on the assumption that the program committee has the necessary expertise to handle all submissions. However, topical discrepancies between received submissions…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Christin Katharina Kreutz , Krisztian Balog , Ralf Schenkel

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yanzhu Guo , Guokan Shang , Virgile Rennard , Michalis Vazirgiannis , Chloé Clavel

Peer review (e.g., grading assignments in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), academic paper review) is an effective and scalable method to evaluate the products (e.g., assignments, papers) of a large number of agents when the number of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Yuanzhang Xiao , Florian Dörfler , Mihaela van der Schaar

The number of scientific publications is constantly rising, increasing the strain on the review process. The number of submissions is actually higher, as each manuscript is often reviewed several times before publication. To face the deluge…

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