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ReviewMap: Mapping Evaluative Acts and Automation Boundaries in Peer-Review Comments

A new arXiv paper (2611.07489v1) introduces ReviewMap, a framework that classifies peer-review comments into two evaluative acts: assessment of claims and scholarly standards, and calibration of contribution value and venue fit. Applied to 500 ICLR 2026 papers through multi-model LLM consensus, the act layer proved reliably automatable under the paper's operational guideline of inter-model kappa of at least 0.75, supported by five-human validation on 470 development comments, while the finer-grained attribute layer requires human oversight, defining a measured automation boundary. At the corpus level, 17% of reviewer-paper instances contain no panel-coded calibration, and the panel-coded calibration share is nearly 3 times as high in Strengths as in Weaknesses.

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arXiv:2611.07489v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Peer-review comments check what a paper does and judge why it matters, but no existing scheme distinguishes these two evaluative acts. We argue that making these acts explicit and measuring how reliably LLMs identify them is a prerequisite for responsible LLM-assisted review analysis: humans need to inspect review judgments and their grounds. This defines a more honest mission for NLP in peer review than full automation. We present ReviewMap, a framework that classifies each comment as assessment of claims and scholarly standards or calibration of contribution value and venue fit, with finer-grained attributes applied conditionally by act type. Applied to 500 ICLR~2026 papers through multi-model LLM consensus, the act layer proves reliably automatable under the operational guideline (inter-model $\kappa \geq 0.75$), supported by five-human validation on 470 development comments, while the attribute layer requires human oversight, defining a measured automation boundary. At the corpus level, 17% of reviewer-paper instances contain no panel-coded calibration, and the panel-coded calibration share is nearly $3\times$ as high in Strengths as in Weaknesses. This boundary informs three affordances: a review guideline that operationalizes the assessment-then-calibration workflow for reviewers, a per-comment rebuttal strategy scaffold for authors, and a discussion-phase dashboard for area chairs.

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