Short Paper Reviews [R]

Various venues offer, or have in the past offered, the opportunity to submit short papers, often with a four pages page limit. This is currently true of the ACL.

Short papers are not long papers, and there are usually explicit requirements as to how they should be treated differently by reviewers. See for example http://aclrollingreview.org/cfp section on short papers.

Question to anyone who has submitted short papers in the past, do you think your paper was reviewed fairly as a short paper? I know we’ve all had some bad experiences with subletting any kind of paper, but do you think on average the reviewers understood the assignment and evaluated your work based on the criteria for short papers?

I think it’s true that ICLR used to have a short papers track and removed it. Does anyone know why it was removed?