RATE: Reviewer Profiling and Annotation-free Training for Expertise Ranking in Peer Review Systems (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | LR-bench is a high-fidelity, up-to-date benchmark curated from 2024–2025 AI/NLP manuscripts with five-level self-assessed familiarity ratings collected via a large-scale email survey . |
| Approach: | They propose a reviewer-centric ranking framework that distills each reviewer’s recent publications into compact keyword-based profiles and fine-tunes an embedding model with weak preference supervision constructed from heuristic retrieval signals. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing benchmarks and the CMU gold-standard dataset in the evaluation of AI/NLP manuscripts. |
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