AI-assisted pre-review of open-source software submissions: an experience report from BOSC 2026

arXiv:2607.27228v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most conferences rely on peer-review of submissions, but as generative AI makes it easier than ever to prepare submission materials, some conferences are seeing an overwhelming surge of submissions. We wanted to see if generative AI could help our conference's volunteer reviewers by pre-reviewing abstracts for certain criteria. The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) was well-positioned to experiment with this, as we already had a detailed...