Yoav Goldberg shares review stack: 4 of 5 submissions rejected as slop
yoavgo · x · 2026-10-22
Well-known NLP researcher Yoav Goldberg shared his reviewing verdicts: two clear rejects (slop), two weak rejects (trivial, no novelty), and one weak accept (clear writing, nice contribution, super-niche topic). The post is a pointed commentary on the flood of low-quality AI paper submissions overwhelming peer review.
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