How to write a computer conference rebuttal

In fact, the best textbook is an example, just NIPS meeting will be all the papers of the past rebuttal all posted out ... , see here: http://papers.nips.cc/

At the same time, the circle of peers also summed up a lot of experience, below reprint other people's experience

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The previous period of time just succeeded rebuttal an article, take advantage of the heat has not passed, summarize.

In academia, computer science appears to be an alternative, manifested in its special fancy meetings and light periodicals, many industry Daniel's pride is first appeared in the computer science in various areas of the top international conferences. The good journal articles are mostly the extended version of the top-level conference papers, resulting in a surprisingly low timeliness and impact factor: (. I am a software engineering direction, top-level conferences (such as ICSE, FSE, OOPSLA, ASE, Issta) have more than most of the journal of the influence of the high, of course, the screening process is very strict, more than two months of review time, the admission rate is generally not higher than 30%, usually less than 25%. With the increase of influence, many times, these meetings will also have the so-called rebuttal opportunity, let the author have the opportunity to challenge the reviewers comments.

Do not know is lucky or unfortunate, I admitted two pieces of slightly better articles have gone through the rebuttal stage, are in the edge of receiving and refusing to wander over. Fortunately, eventually I still rebuttal success:).

According to my success rebuttal experience and the foreign Daniel rebuttal proposed summary (see here 1 and here 2), the following may be helpful things:)

The meaning of rebuttal

First of all, to be clear, rebuttal will only be in the receiving edge of your paper when the role, if reviewers opinion is generally very strict, then the role of rebuttal can almost be ignored.

Distinguish the reviewer's attitude.

Be aware of the subtle attitude of the reviewers to your paper according to the reviewer's opinion: Who advocates your article, who rejects your article, and who is in the swing stage. The strategy is simple: do not disturb the user of your reviewer, fight against your reviewer, and draw a swing reviewer. Remember one thing: supporting your reviewer is basically going to support your article at a PC conference, and it's hard to impress the reviewer who rejected you.

Armed supporters of your reviewer.

Usually before the top-level meeting, the President of the Conference will generally try to find a supporter for each article according to the reviewer's opinion, and if no one is willing to support your article, the hope of your article is very slim. This means that even if all of your comments are weak accept, the lack of an accept reviewer is likely to cause the article to be rejected. Similarly, the Chairman of the Conference will try to find an opponent to refute the supporters at the meeting, the fate of the final article is the outcome of the two games. The focus of rebuttal, therefore, is to refute the opponents ' views and provide sufficient weapons for the supporters. A strong opponent can only be defeated by another, more powerful supporter.

Looking for a comments against reviewer errors

If you can find an error in the wording of the reviewer who opposes your article, congratulations, you will receive a much higher probability of receiving your article. Pointing out this error in rebuttal will reduce the authority of the opponent. Hey, I recently received the Issta article is proud of this. The third reviewer should be the field of Daniel, to my article greatly criticized, as if with my revenge, listed a total of five not like the reasons, may be too proud, in the final opinion of actually trying to guess my article conclusion of the internal reasons, the result is just the opposite of the experimental results, I caught a positive:).

Write to all PCs

If you have a few words you want all the PC to see, then these words must be put in the front. The reason is also very simple, everyone can not put your rebuttal entire reading, but the first few words we will still look at a few eyes.

Thank the reviewer.

Even the reviewer who opposes you has come up with a lot of valuable time to review your paper, so learn to be thankful as a writer.

Finally, I would like to thank Andreas Zeller, the German Daniel article: How to write a good rebuttal, against your reviewer. With the drama, I presume that the reviewer who objected to me was probably Andreas Zeller, and I probably refuted him by the rebuttal guide written by the academic Daniel:). Anyway, thanks to Andreas Zeller.

Today on the science online to see that means at Stanford read Bo Yang Double article, one of the words written very good: "I said I am very proud of this paper, and whether or not to be hired has no relationship." Although I did not reach that level of thought, I also agree with the idea. I hope that I can be proud of myself after graduation work and other people to say that the doctor during the time I still do a little thing, there is a top-level conference article always shine in there .....

from:http://jacoxu.com/?p=1460

How to write a computer conference rebuttal