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juanigp t1_j5swklo wrote

This was my first submission, I had a worse score than you but will write a rebuttal either ways (although I doubt I can convince everyone). Why wouldn't you? I'm not judging, asking out of curiosity as I don't know the "common practice" .

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Jack7heRapper t1_j5syos0 wrote

It's my first submission too, and I'm an undergrad lol.
I've heard from my seniors and professors that changing a reject (1) to borderline (3) or weak accept (4) is difficult and that you need at least all borderlines to have a shot at getting accepted. They still told me to write it anyway for the experience.
Moreover, the confidence level of that reject is 4. The problem is that the reviewer asked for experimental results on an additional dataset, which I didn't work on. So, I'm not really sure how I can improve their score.
The other reviewers weren't too harsh with their reviews and I probably could have convinced them but I don't think I can convince reviewer #3 without quantitative results to back up my claims.

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maybelator t1_j5t74ae wrote

Reviewers are not allowed to ask for more experiments. You could signal this to the area chair. But ultimately, the paper probably won't be accepted.

Do write a rebuttal however, it's a great exercise.

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