ACL statistics reveal a single author submitted 65 papers and had 36 accepted to a single academic cycle

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The data sparked criticism over "ceremonial authorship" in computer science.

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@jxmnop that's pretty good considering the acceptance rate of 20%? restricting this person means the conference would have to accept weaker papers

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i feel nothing but respect for the chinese professorchad who submitted 65 papers at once to the same conference https://x.com/jxmnop/status/2074194796856684612/photo/1 https://twitter.com/_michaelginn/status/2073802343741895081