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---
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license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
task_categories:
- text-classification
language:
- en
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
---


# RevUtil: Measuring the Utility of Peer Reviews for Authors

[πŸ“„ Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.1476/)  
[πŸ’» GitHub Repository](https://github.com/bodasadallah/RevUtil)  

---

## πŸ“š Overview

Providing **constructive feedback** to authors is a key goal of peer review. To support research on evaluating and generating useful peer review comments, we introduce **RevUtil**, a dataset for measuring the utility of peer review feedback.  

RevUtil focuses on four main aspects of review comments:

- **Actionability** – Can the author act on the comment?  
- **Grounding & Specificity** – Is the comment concrete and tied to the paper?  
- **Verifiability** – Can the statement be checked against the paper?  
- **Helpfulness** – Does the comment assist the author in improving their work?  

---

## πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬ RevUtil Human

- **1,430** review comments from real peer reviews.  
- Each comment is annotated independently by **three human raters**.  
- Labels are provided as `"gold"` (3/3 agreement), `"silver"` (2/3), or `"none"` (no agreement).  

**Key columns:**

| Column              | Description                                                                 |
| ------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `paper_id`          | ID of the reviewed paper                                                    |
| `venue`             | Conference or journal name                                                  |
| `focused_review`    | Full review (weakness + suggestion sections)                                |
| `review_point`      | Individual review comment being evaluated                                   |
| `id`                | Unique ID for the review point                                              |
| `batch`             | Annotation batch/study identifier                                           |
| `ASPECT`            | Dictionary with annotators and their labels                                 |
| `ASPECT_label`      | Majority label (if available)                                               |
| `ASPECT_label_type` | `"gold"`, `"silver"`, or `"none"`                                           |

---

## πŸš€ Usage

You can load the datasets directly via πŸ€— Datasets:

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

# Human annotations
human = load_dataset("boda/RevUtil_human")

# Synthetic annotations
synthetic = load_dataset("boda/RevUtil_synthetic")
```



## πŸ“Ž Citation
```
@inproceedings{sadallah-etal-2025-good,
    title = "The Good, the Bad and the Constructive: Automatically Measuring Peer Review{'}s Utility for Authors",
    author = {Sadallah, Abdelrahman  and
      Baumg{\"a}rtner, Tim  and
      Gurevych, Iryna  and
      Briscoe, Ted},
    editor = "Christodoulopoulos, Christos  and
      Chakraborty, Tanmoy  and
      Rose, Carolyn  and
      Peng, Violet",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = nov,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Suzhou, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.1476/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.1476",
    pages = "28979--29009",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-332-6"
}
```