Yes-Yes-Yes: Proactive Data Collection for ACL Rolling Review and Beyond

Nils Dycke, Ilia Kuznetsov, Iryna Gurevych


Abstract
The shift towards publicly available text sources has enabled language processing at unprecedented scale, yet leaves under-serviced the domains where public and openly licensed data is scarce. Proactively collecting text data for research is a viable strategy to address this scarcity, but lacks systematic methodology taking into account the many ethical, legal and confidentiality-related aspects of data collection. Our work presents a case study on proactive data collection in peer review – a challenging and under-resourced NLP domain. We outline ethical and legal desiderata for proactive data collection and introduce “Yes-Yes-Yes”, the first donation-based peer reviewing data collection workflow that meets these requirements. We report on the implementation of Yes-Yes-Yes at ACL Rolling Review and empirically study the implications of proactive data collection for the dataset size and the biases induced by the donation behavior on the peer reviewing platform.
Anthology ID:
2022.findings-emnlp.23
Volume:
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022
Month:
December
Year:
2022
Address:
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Editors:
Yoav Goldberg, Zornitsa Kozareva, Yue Zhang
Venue:
Findings
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
300–318
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-emnlp.23
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.findings-emnlp.23
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Cite (ACL):
Nils Dycke, Ilia Kuznetsov, and Iryna Gurevych. 2022. Yes-Yes-Yes: Proactive Data Collection for ACL Rolling Review and Beyond. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, pages 300–318, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Yes-Yes-Yes: Proactive Data Collection for ACL Rolling Review and Beyond (Dycke et al., Findings 2022)
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-emnlp.23.pdf
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