Tags: * publish papers before conference
"One potential benefit of a rolling review would be to get results quicker ""to the market"", i.e. make
them available to other researchers in shorter time. To achive this, it would be great if a good paper
(i.e. which has good reviews ) doesn't have to wait for the next large conference until it is presented
and published (which can, in some cases, be several months). Instead, maybe we could change the process
to something like a ""reviewed arxiv"": Once a paper has received good reviews, it is published at some
place at ACL, and made available to the public. It can already be promoted by the authors and has a
proper reference. At the same time, the authors select one of the major conferences where they would
like to present the paper. This conference can still decide whether the paper is going to be presented,
based on the scope of confernce, other submissions etc. If it get's rejected at the conference, we may
allow to submit it to at most one other major conference, to avoid re-submissions again and again. Effect
is that there will be some papers that are e.g. ""published at ACL"", and others that are ""published
at ACL and presented at EMNLP"". Benefit for the authors is that the paper is ""out"" very soon, and
still authors have the chance to present it to a larger audience. Benefit for reviewers and ACL is that
a paper is thoroughly reviewed only once, and conference organizers get reviewed high-quality papers
that they can select for their conference. Of course this is only a first draft of the idea, and details
would have to be worked out. "