NLPeer: A Unified Resource for the Computational Study of Peer Review
This provides a foundational dataset for researchers in computational linguistics and peer review to enable systematic, evidence-based studies, though it is incremental as it builds on existing data collection efforts.
The authors tackled the lack of clearly licensed datasets and multi-domain corpora for studying NLP in peer review by introducing NLPeer, a unified resource with over 5k papers and 11k reviews from five venues, including structured data and implementations for reviewing assistance tasks.
Peer review constitutes a core component of scholarly publishing; yet it demands substantial expertise and training, and is susceptible to errors and biases. Various applications of NLP for peer reviewing assistance aim to support reviewers in this complex process, but the lack of clearly licensed datasets and multi-domain corpora prevent the systematic study of NLP for peer review. To remedy this, we introduce NLPeer -- the first ethically sourced multidomain corpus of more than 5k papers and 11k review reports from five different venues. In addition to the new datasets of paper drafts, camera-ready versions and peer reviews from the NLP community, we establish a unified data representation and augment previous peer review datasets to include parsed and structured paper representations, rich metadata and versioning information. We complement our resource with implementations and analysis of three reviewing assistance tasks, including a novel guided skimming task. Our work paves the path towards systematic, multi-faceted, evidence-based study of peer review in NLP and beyond. The data and code are publicly available.