Paper Revision: 2020.conll-1.14

[mdingemanse]

Anthology ID

2020.conll-1.14

Type of Change

Revision

PDF of the Revision or Erratum

van Arkel et al_2020_A simple repair mechanism can alleviate computational demands of pragmatic.pdf

WRONG: non-extant DOI, generates 404, does not use Anthology ID, does not lead users to ACL Anthology

CORRECTED: actual DOI, does lead users to the right place in ACL Anthology

Brief Description of Changes

This revisits an issue that was closed (probably because I filed a correction not a revision). In the words of @mjpost :

When the proceedings chairs watermarked the PDFs, they added an incorrect footer. There's nothing we can do about it.

But is there really nothing that can be done? I would hope errors introduced by chairs are correctable. This error was introduced after supplying camera-ready copy, so out of our hands as authors; yet still reflects on us and hurts the findability and citability of the paper. My concern is that the incorrect link and nonexistent DOI will keep tripping up readers.

I am requesting the PDF be updated with the revised version supplied above, the only change in which is to correct the DOI, which was wrongly added by chairs after the proofs stage and therefore outside our control. Proof this is the only change is in this diff.

Since this is the only change, I would also note that revising the PDF merely brings the paper in line with the official ACL metadata. In that sense it is (merely) a metadata correction.

I believe the current guidelines for metadata correction are (understandably) geared towards things like authors and affiliations, and don't cater for the (hopefully rare) case where chairs make an error during the PDF watermarking process. But I don't think our paper should suffer from that.