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## SAC.md

      
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                Conference Decisions
              
          
    The Impossible Task of Conference SACs/PCs or How I lost 3 Nights of Sleep

I am writing this post in order to share my thoughts on the processes behind acceptance/rejection decisions in top-tier (NLP) conferences. I'll first discuss the process and then share some thoughts on its shortcomings.
Before we start, a bit about me. I am an assistant professor (aka, rather junior: I have been in this position for less than 4 years, following my PhD studies and a short postdoc) working on NLP, with a focus on multilingualism and low-resource settings. While I have submitted, published at, and reviewed for *ACL conferences and workshops for many years, it was at EMNLP'23 that I was a Senior Area Chair (SAC) for the first time.
The Conference Paper Pipeline

Let's first briefly outline the process that a paper undergoes, from submission to decision:

  
## git_branch_naming.md

      
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                Git Branch Naming Conventions
              
          
    Syntax

<author>/<type>/<ticket>/<title>
Example

revett/feature/24101/skeleton-service-for-email-sender