How Can We Improve Peer Review in NLP?

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How Can We Improve Peer Review in NLP?

Have your conference or journal reviewers ever completely misunderstood your paper or raised unreasonable objections?

We argue that a part of the problem is that the reviewers and area chairs face a poorly defined task forcing apples-to-oranges comparisons, and offer ways forward.