Marcel Bollmann
@marcel.bollmann.me
Associate professor at @liu.se 🇸🇪, site development lead for @aclanthology.org, editor-in-chief at @nejlt.bsky.social. Mildly obscure #NLP researcher.
I like coffee and board games.
🏠 https://marcel.bollmann.me/
I like coffee and board games.
🏠 https://marcel.bollmann.me/
I need a gym without any people at all, that would motivate me
September 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I need a gym without any people at all, that would motivate me
German is my native language :) Interestingly I can't think of any way I've ever heard anyone refer to this button. I'm mostly used to constructions that avoid naming it altogether, such as "hast du gedrückt?" or "ist schon gedrückt" ("did you push?/it's already pushed")
August 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
German is my native language :) Interestingly I can't think of any way I've ever heard anyone refer to this button. I'm mostly used to constructions that avoid naming it altogether, such as "hast du gedrückt?" or "ist schon gedrückt" ("did you push?/it's already pushed")
It sounds so ridiculous to me and I think no sane person would ever say that in conversation, yet the public transport companies use it on signs and in spoken announcements as if it was the most normal thing to say.
August 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
It sounds so ridiculous to me and I think no sane person would ever say that in conversation, yet the public transport companies use it on signs and in spoken announcements as if it was the most normal thing to say.
Making changes—meaningless or not—with the sole intent of gaming the peer-review system sounds like a better way of defining misconduct here. But the hard problem in practice is of course proving the author’s intent.
July 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Making changes—meaningless or not—with the sole intent of gaming the peer-review system sounds like a better way of defining misconduct here. But the hard problem in practice is of course proving the author’s intent.
My point is that “changes to a paper not made with the intention to improve it” is not a good criterion for misconduct IMO, as we make changes for other reasons all the time (including what Emile said about appeasing reviewers).
July 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
My point is that “changes to a paper not made with the intention to improve it” is not a good criterion for misconduct IMO, as we make changes for other reasons all the time (including what Emile said about appeasing reviewers).
We make meaningless changes all the time e.g. to fit within page limits, those also often don't make the paper better in the eyes of the authors...
July 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
We make meaningless changes all the time e.g. to fit within page limits, those also often don't make the paper better in the eyes of the authors...