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That is uplifting. I recently got two conference papers rejected, and I was a bit downcast about it. It's nice to be reminded that individual failures don't tel

• joshvm 10y ago
  I've given up worrying about conference paper reviewers. The last paper I submitted got a strong accept from one, and a reject from the other (the overall decision was accept). Interestingly the reasons for accept/reject were almost exactly the same - the stuff one guy liked, the other guy hated. It's completely luck of the draw, so don't be disheartened. In any case, I pick conferences largely based on their location (if I can get paid to go) rather than their academic merit. That's what journals are for!
• arjunnarayan 10y ago
  If you need some morale boosting, come talk to me about conference paper rejections (I can't speak publicly of this). I can tell you of at least three separate best paper award winning papers at the absolute top conferences where the drafts spent 1+ years in various rejection bins.
• jventura 10y ago
  Ah, conference papers.. I had my share of rejections, got a paper rejected in 4/5 conferences, but in the end it got accepted in a good-enough conference! In retrospective, I think every single paper I wrote was rejected at least once, but I always read carefully the reviews to try to improve them. For what I can remember, many reviews were about little stupid things which I just interpreted as the reviewer "didn't like it". Keep on going, but know when to quit. At least two papers I wrote didn't got anywhere and I had to throw them out the window..