<story><title>Word2Vec received &apos;strong reject&apos; four times at ICLR2013</title><url>https://openreview.net/forum?id=idpCdOWtqXd60</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>magnio</author><text>There are more details in the FB post of Tomas Mikolov (author of word2vec) recently:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.facebook.com&amp;#x2F;share&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;kXYaYaRvRCr5K2Ze&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.facebook.com&amp;#x2F;share&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;kXYaYaRvRCr5K2Ze&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;A hilarious and poignant point I see is how experts make mistake too. Quote:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I also received a lot of comments on the word analogies - from &amp;quot;I knew that too but forgot to publish it!&amp;quot; (Geoff Hinton, I believe you :) happens to everyone, and anyways I think everybody knows what the origin of Distributed Representations is) to &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s a total hack and I&amp;#x27;m sure it doesn&amp;#x27;t work!&amp;quot; (random guys who didn&amp;#x27;t bother to read the papers and try it out themselves - including Ian Goodfellow raging about it on Twitter).</text></comment>
<story><title>Word2Vec received &apos;strong reject&apos; four times at ICLR2013</title><url>https://openreview.net/forum?id=idpCdOWtqXd60</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nybsjytm</author><text>I think the reviewers did a good job; the reviews are pretty reasonable. Reviews are supposed to be about the quality of a paper, not how influential they might be in the future! And not all influential papers are actually very good.</text></comment>