Learning peer-review checklists: a pipeline from atomic claims to checklist trees

JessicaHullman · x · 2026-10-30

Jessica Hullman's team presents a pipeline for learning review checklists: extract atomic review claims from historical reviews, filter to claims resolvable from the paper itself, strip/embed/merge claims, build a tree of checklists at varying granularity, and choose the cut maximizing correlated agreement. Historical review datasets can't reveal reviewer behavior under different checklists, so they optimize this proxy — shown under some conditions to approach the MSE-optimal checklist.

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