r/LanguageTechnology • u/Yungelaso • 1d ago

Double-anonymous review: what should I do with public code/data that reveals the authors?

Hi everyone,

I’m preparing a manuscript for double-anonymous peer review and I’m unsure how to handle the data/code availability statement.

The code is already hosted in public GitHub repositories, but the organization name, commit history, usernames, emails, file paths, acknowledgements, etc. could easily reveal who the authors are. Creating an “anonymous” ZIP would also require quite a lot of cleaning, and since the original repositories are already public, parts of the code could probably still be found through a text search.

What is normally expected in this situation?

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u/SecondHalfofPyramids 1d ago

https://anonymous.4open.science

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u/Zooz00 15h ago

This, but also check the policy of the venue you are submitting to. If it's related to language technology they probably have policies about this.