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[Pasindu Udawatta]

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Decision: major revision

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Reviewer 2
My observations on the article are as follows:
•       The author may consider avoiding the use of too many acronyms in the abstract.
•       The introduction is well written and easy to understand.
•       The authors are suggested to highlight the challenges in handling CMCS text through prompt-based learning.
•       In Section 3, Algorithm 1: the author mentions that in the case of language mixing, sentences are classified based on the percentage of characters from each script. However, for code-mixed text, most native language words are written using the Roman script. In that case, how does the proposed algorithm work?
•       The authors are suggested to include the reasoning behind the selected hyperparameters during model training.
•       The authors may consider experimenting with the LoRA adapter and comparing the results with the proposed Houlsby and Peiffer methods.
•       The authors may consider including an error analysis and limitations section in the article.
•       The authors are suggested to compare the proposed model with existing fine-tuning methods to support their claim.



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[Surangika Ranathunga]

Congratulations.

Reviewers request to update the paper content only, and no  new experiments are requested. Please prepare a document describing how you are planning to address the comments. This can be in the form of a table - first column lists the author comment, and the second column lists how you would address that comment.

Regards

Surangika

[Shekhar, Ravi]

9:30 is also fine 

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Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2024 6:24:02 AM
To: Shekhar, Ravi <r.sh...@essex.ac.uk>
Cc: Indunil Udayangana <induniluda...@cse.mrt.ac.lk>; Pasindu Udawatta <pasin...@cse.mrt.ac.lk>; Chathulanka Gamage <chathul...@cse.mrt.ac.lk>; Lingua <lingua...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: World Wide Web: Decision on your manuscript

 

That slot works for me, but I will be available only for 30mins. Can we start at 9.30am IST?

Regards

Surangika

On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 at 15:43, Shekhar, Ravi <r.sh...@essex.ac.uk> wrote:

Thanks. I can't compile the latex file. 

How about Wednesday, 10 am IST?

-- Ravi

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Sent: 21 July 2024 15:55
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Subject: Re: World Wide Web: Decision on your manuscript

 

Dear Dr. Surangika,

We have prepared a document addressing the comments from the reviewer. You can access the document using the following link: [link].
Additionally, we have updated the paper accordingly. You can find the updated version of the paper here: [paper link].
There are a few comments that require further discussion and your feedback to ensure we address them appropriately.
It would be helpful if we could have a Zoom session to discuss these points in detail. Please let us know a convenient time for you.

On Fri, 19 Jul 2024 at 08:02, Shekhar, Ravi <r.sh...@essex.ac.uk> wrote:

That's great.

Let's try to finish it soon. 

-- Ravi

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[Surangika Ranathunga]

Thanks, if the students are also ok, I will send a meeting invite.

[Pasindu Udawatta]

Dear Dr Surangika and Dr Ravi,

I will not be available on Wednesday. Will it possible to have this on Thursday or Friday?

Regards,

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[Surangika Ranathunga]

I am ok with Friday.

[Shekhar, Ravi]

Friday, at the same time, is fine with me. 

-- Ravi

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From: Surangika Ranathunga <sura...@cse.mrt.ac.lk>
Sent: 23 July 2024 02:40

To: Pasindu Udawatta <pasin...@cse.mrt.ac.lk>
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[Indunil Udayangana]

Dear Dr. Surangika and Dr. Ravi,

We have addressed the comments you mentioned and would appreciate your support with the next steps for refining and reviewing the paper before submission.  

Point-to-point response document -> [link]. paper link -> [paper link].

Regards,

Indunil Udayangana

On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 at 16:48, Jenine Navarro <jenine....@springernature.com> wrote:

Dear Dr. Udawatta,

Thank you for your response.

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On Wed, 31 Jul at 9:07 AM , Pasindu Udawatta <pasin...@cse.mrt.ac.lk> wrote:

Dear Jenine, I would like to inform you that the estimated date for submitting the revision is August 19, 2024. Please update the deadline on the system accordingly. I look forward to your confirmation. Best regards, On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 at 20: 49,

Dear Jenine,

I would like to inform you that the estimated date for submitting the revision is August 19, 2024. Please update the deadline on the system accordingly.

I look forward to your confirmation.

Best regards,

On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 at 20:49, Jenine Navarro <jenine....@springernature.com> wrote:

Dear Dr. Udawatta,

Thank you for your email.

This has been noted. Kindly inform us of your estimated date on when you may be able to submit the revision so I may update the deadline on the system accordingly.

I look forward to receiving your response.

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On Sun, 28 Jul at 7:39 AM , Pasindu Udawatta <pasin...@cse.mrt.ac.lk> wrote:

Dear Sir/Madam, Thank you for your email regarding the revision of our manuscript. We appreciate the valuable feedback and the opportunity to improve our work. We kindly request an additional 14 days to complete the revisions thoroughly. This

Dear Sir/Madam,

Thank you for your email regarding the revision of our manuscript. We appreciate the valuable feedback and the opportunity to improve our work.

We kindly request an additional 14 days to complete the revisions thoroughly. This extension will ensure that we address all the reviewers' comments comprehensively and enhance the quality of our manuscript.

Thank you for considering our request. We look forward to submitting the revised manuscript within the extended timeframe.

Kind regards,

Pasindu Udawatta

B.Sc. Engineering (Hons.), CIMA Dip MA

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

University of Moratuwa

Phone: +94-714-793-047

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/pasindu-udawatta

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[Surangika Ranathunga]

I reviewed the paper once again. Here are some comments ( @Shekhar, Ravi please check the ones in bold-face and confirm whether you agree  ):

1. The first paragraph of introduction is a bit confusing. Please refer to a bit more references and make sure your definitions are correct

2. Tables 1 & 2 - I do not think we need to discuss DL techniques other than PLM-based ones. So remove the non-PLM ones. Also I do not think you need to explain the methodology. Saying whether they used full fine-tuning or other technique s.a. transfer learning/multi-task learning is enough

3. Table 3: are you sure that the sixth category is different from 5th category?

4. Regarding the explanation on selecting 10%, would these sentences be better?  We separate the corpus according to the script (e.g. in the case of Sinhala-English corpus, we have the following portions: Sinhala script only, English script only, and mixed script). Then, from each of these script-based groups, a subset of sentences was selected. The size of this subset is equal to 10% of the full corpus.

5. Check the bibliography referring to arXiv. If the conference/journal version of these papers are now available, please cite them

6. In section 9, you say you select the sentiment classification task, becuase dynamic + adapter gave the best result in this task. However, the results table shows adapter prompt is the best strategy for this task

7. I still think the limitations section is not needed. This limitation can be simply mentioned in the conclusion section

[Indunil Udayangana]

Dear Dr. Surangika and Dr. Ravi,

We have addressed your recent feedback on our manuscript, Specifically :

Introduction: We have rewritten the first paragraph and added additional references to strengthen the context.
Literature Review: We expanded the table to include more related works using Pre-trained Language Models (PMLMs) and removed references to deep learning methods. The methodology section has been retained as is because some works involve benchmark evaluations and comparisons of DL and PLM methods, making it challenging to explicitly mention their methods.
Limitations Section: We have removed this section and integrated its content into the conclusion, alongside a discussion of future work.

As the submission deadline is approaching, we are preparing the final document. According to the initial instructions, all changes must be highlighted or tracked. Could you please confirm if these changes should be tracked directly within the manuscript, or if there is a preferred method for indicating revisions?
We would greatly appreciate your guidance on the next steps. If you are available, a Zoom session would be very helpful to discuss these revisions in detail.

Best regards,

Indunil Udayangana

On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 at 20:16, Shekhar, Ravi <r.sh...@essex.ac.uk> wrote:

I agree with the bold one. 

We should frame limitation such that it is kind of part of future work or out of scope of this work. 

-- Ravi

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[Surangika Ranathunga]

I am travelling and would not be able to join a meeting this week.

But I had a look at the paper. I just have two comments:

1. I think the findings column in table 2 and 3 is not useful. Simply remove that column and merge two tables. Make sure correct tables numbers are used in the reference doc

2. Is the error analysis section newly added? then you have to highlight it

@Shekhar, Ravi please add anything else that you could find.

[Pasindu Udawatta]

Dear Dr Surangika and Dr Ravi,

"Please submit the updated manuscript and a point-by-point response.

A point-by-point response to the comments, including a description of any additional experiments that were carried out and a detailed rebuttal of any criticisms or requested revisions that you disagreed with.
This must be uploaded as a 'Point-by-point response' file. All changes to the manuscript must be highlighted or indicated by using tracked changes."

Above is a segment of their email. For the point-by-point response, we will submit the doc that we prepared. What do they mean by "All changes to the manuscript must be highlighted or indicated by using tracked changes."? Do we need to keep the changes highlighted (as in different text colour) in the submitted manuscript?

Kind regards,

[Surangika Ranathunga]

Yes, just keep the highlighting in the manuscript. That's what they expect 

[Shekhar, Ravi]

I modified a bit of the limitations in the conclusion and added some comments. 

I suggest Error Analysis as a subsection; otherwise, it is too short for a section. We can change the title of Sec 8 to Evaluation and Analysis. 

-- Ravi

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Sent: 12 August 2024 23:05
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[Pasindu Udawatta]

Dear Dr Surangika and Dr Ravi,

We have submitted the revised manuscript after addressing the comments. Thank you for your time and guidance, which were immensely valuable throughout this process.

Best regards,

[Shekhar, Ravi]

Thanks for all the efforts. 

Finger crossed. 

-- Ravi

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Sent: 18 August 2024 16:48
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[Pasindu Udawatta]

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Ref: Submission ID 67913112-1823-498d-b3a2-3efb2792505a

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Re: "Use of Prompt-Based Learning for Code-Mixed and Code-Switched Text Classification"

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[Shekhar, Ravi]

Congratulations, everyone, especially students, for all the hard work.

@Surangika Ranathunga, does your institution cover the APC for open access?  

-- Ravi

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Sent: 20 August 2024 17:58

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[Surangika Ranathunga]

Congratulations! Thanks team, for not giving up.

@Shekhar, Ravi yes, my university covers article processing charges.

@Pasindu Udawatta please make me the corresponding author in their submission system.

[Pasindu Udawatta]

Dear Dr. Surangika,

It seems there isn't an option to change the corresponding author at this time.

[Surangika Ranathunga]

You might be able to do it when submitting the camera-ready. 

[Pasindu Udawatta]

Dear Dr. Surangika,

Sure, I'll do that. We listed myself as the corresponding author in the paper. Will it be an issue if we change that later in the submission portal

[Surangika Ranathunga]

No, I don't think so - corresponding author is just for correspondence. If they ask (which I doubt), we can explain. Journals prefer open access.

[Pasindu Udawatta]

Sure. Thank you for the clarification Dr Surangika.

[Shekhar, Ravi]

Hi Surangika, 

I asked my university about the open access. The reply is below.

If I am the corresponding author, there will be no additional cost?  

How is it done from your side? Will there be any additional cost? 

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As World Wide Web is covered by our read and publish agreement with Springer Nature, as long as you are the corresponding author and you have affiliated yourself with the University of Essex through the submission process there won’t be any additional costs involved to make your paper available open access.

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-- Ravi

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Sent: 20 August 2024 22:23
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[Surangika Ranathunga]

Hi Ravi

Yes, there will be no additional costs when we opt for open access. In their submission system, there is a place to indicate the university that covers the open access fees. Then the journal will directly coordinate with the university. So either you or I can be the corresponding author.

Regards

Surangika

[Shekhar, Ravi]

That's great. Then it would be good for you to be the corresponding author.

Did they give a deadline for the camera-ready version?  

-- Ravi

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