Richard Socher says NLP conferences desk-rejected his first neural-network papers in 2010 because neural networks were considered outside the field’s scope.

“church like if you look at uh ai conferences now i still remember the days in like 2010 when i tried to get my first neural net papers and nlp conferences accepted and they just desk rejected them because uh like neural nets were something quote unquote we don't do in nlp conferences like and just like desk rejected it was very brutal in the first years of my phd um now i feel like it's almost like the field switch to the other side like someone should try some other weird crazy ideas now that aren't”