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Talk Reviews

The reviews page shows feedback from the review process for your talk. How much detail you can see is controlled by the project's result visibility setting.

Where to Find It

Me > Talks > Open a talk > Reviews

Use the Reviews tab to check review round progress and any feedback the event team has made visible.

Reading reviewer feedback

A speaker sees that two reviewers submitted feedback. The event shows full comments, so the speaker uses the visible feedback to improve the abstract before the next round.

Review Status

Navigate to your talk and select the Reviews tab. For each review round, you can see:

FieldDescription
Round nameThe review round (e.g., "Round 1", "Final Review").
Reviewers submittedHow many of the assigned reviewers have completed their review, out of the total assigned.
Average ratingThe mean overall rating across submitted reviews, if the event shares scores.

Result Visibility

The event's result visibility setting controls what you can see, and has three levels:

SettingWhat you see
HiddenNothing yet — ema shows a message that reviews are in progress.
Scores onlyRound progress and the average rating, but not individual written comments.
FullRound progress, average rating, and each reviewer's public comments (identified only as "Reviewer 1", "Reviewer 2", etc. — never by name).

This setting is configured by the program committee and cannot be changed from the speaker portal.

What reviewers can share

Reviewers may leave scores, public comments intended for you, and private comments visible only to the committee. Only public comments ever reach this page, and only when result visibility is set to Full.

Discussion with Reviewers

Unless results are fully hidden, the Reviews tab also includes a message thread where you can raise questions or comments related to the review process, and the event team (or reviewers, depending on their settings) can reply. A thread can be marked resolved; adding a new comment reopens it.

Connected Feature

Reviewers complete the assignments that produce the feedback shown here. See Review Assignments.

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