Comment by Lerc

4 days ago

It certainly comes across as disrespectful.

To my reading the nature of supervision creating the structure seems to be the core of the argument.

I have issue with the comment because he says he didn't read it, then unfavorably compares it to a previous method, and finally uses that negative review to plug his own article instead. His criticism might be valid, I'm not in a position to judge, but the self-promotion leaves a sour tastes in my mouth and makes me question how much of the criticism is just drummed up to make his own contribution appear more relevant.

  • to his credit he did say he skimmed the paper, and it's honestly standard practice to do a first pass of skimming a paper before you'd go deeper into reading it anyways

    • The posted paper does use supervision to find alignments. I need to do a little more math to figure out how well the supervision critique applies, but I think it does. And although the current paper mentions DAS, it fails to discuss recent critiques of supervised abstraction methods (the various citations, including my own, that I provided).