rebuttalstudio

📖 Introduction

Writing rebuttals for academic conferences is a high-stakes, time-sensitive task. Yet, there is currently no dedicated editor that streamlines this process. Researchers often find themselves wrestling with formatting constraints, manually splitting reviewer comments into atomic issues, and juggling multiple response drafts across disorganized documents — all under a tight deadline.

Rebuttal Studio was built to change that. It provides a structured, stage-by-stage workflow that guides you through the entire rebuttal process, from parsing reviewer comments to polishing your final responses. By offloading the tedious mechanical work — format conversion, issue segmentation, template management — Rebuttal Studio lets you focus on the substance of your rebuttal, which is the part that actually matters.

🔄 The Rebuttal Studio Pipeline

Our workflow is organized into 5 stages:

Through this principled pipeline, we aim to help academic researchers focus on the rebuttal content itself, rather than getting bogged down by formatting minutiae and the mechanical overhead of organizing responses.

📚 Documents

• 中文文档总览 | English Docs Overview
• Stage 1: Breakdown (EN) | 阶段一：Breakdown（中文）
• Stage 2: Reply (EN) | 阶段二：Reply（中文）
• Stage 3: First Round (EN) | 阶段三：First Round（中文）
• Stage 4: Multi Rounds (EN) | 阶段四：Multi Rounds（中文）
• Stage 5: Final Remarks (EN) | 阶段五：Final Remarks（中文）

🚀 How to Use

# ─── Step 1: Install Node.js & npm (skip if already installed) ───
# Download and install Node.js (npm is included) from:
#   https://nodejs.org/  (LTS version recommended)
#
# Verify installation:
node -v    # should print something like v20.x.x
npm -v     # should print something like 10.x.x

# ─── Step 2: Clone this repository ───
git clone https://github.com/runtsang/RebuttalStudio.git
cd RebuttalStudio

# ─── Step 3: Install dependencies ───
npm install

# ─── Step 4: Launch Rebuttal Studio ───
npm start

🌟 Examples

🤝 Contributing

We warmly welcome contributions from everyone! Whether it's a bug fix, a new feature, improved templates, or better documentation — every contribution makes Rebuttal Studio better for the entire research community.

Why Contribute?

This project was built from scratch in a single weekend (~15 hours) by a solo developer with zero prior experience in web design or app development. There is so much room for improvement, and we need your help.

📝 Technical Report & Authorship

We plan to release a technical report on arXiv before the NeurIPS 2026 rebuttal period begins (Around July, 2026). Here's our commitment to contributors:

• ✅ All contributors whose pull requests are merged into the master branch are welcome to opt in as authors on the technical report.
• 🌟 Outstanding contributors will be additionally recognized and labeled as Main Contributors.

We deeply appreciate every contributor's effort — you deserve this credit. 🙏

🗺️ Roadmap

Short-Term Goals

• Robustness — Improve system resilience to handle diverse input formats and edge cases gracefully.
• Multi-Platform API Support — Extend LLM integration beyond the current setup to support more API providers (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, local models).
• More Conference Templates — ✅ Added built-in support for ICLR, ICML, ARR (ACL, EMNLP), and NeurIPS with complete review rubrics.
• Higher-Quality Templates — ✅ Enhanced all conference templates with detailed scoring scales (1-6 ratings, 4-point scales, etc.), interactive "?" tooltips for each metric, and structured section layouts.
• Enhanced Stage Skills — Introduce more specialized skills at each pipeline stage (e.g., tone adjustment, evidence structuring, counter-argument generation) for more professional polishing. [Partial: Created stage1/stage2 skills for ICLR, ICML, ARR, NeurIPS]
• Additional Venues — Add more conference templates: EMNLP (standalone), ACL, CVPR, ECCV, NAACL, and others.

Long-Term Goals

• Online Collaborative Platform — Deploy Rebuttal Studio as a cloud-hosted service with real-time multi-user collaboration, similar to Overleaf.

  🤝 We are actively looking for collaborators to help build this online platform. If you're interested in contributing to this vision, please reach out!

• End-to-End Agent Mode — Develop an agentic pipeline capable of automating the entire rebuttal workflow.

  ⚠️ This is NOT the primary philosophy of Rebuttal Studio. We strongly believe that the author should remain in the driver's seat. The goal of automation is to reduce friction — not to replace the researcher's own critical thinking and domain expertise.

👥 Contributors

⭐ Star History

📄 License

This project is open-source and available under the MIT License.

📬 Contact

For questions, suggestions, or collaboration inquiries, please open an issue or reach out via email.

📌 Citation

If you find Rebuttal Studio useful in your research, please consider citing our project. We currently have a GitHub repository available, and an arXiv technical report is coming soon.

@misc{rebuttalstudio,
  author       = {Zeng, Runjia},
  title        = {A rebuttal editor for researchers to craft high-quality academic rebuttals},
  month        = 02,
  year         = 2026,
  publisher    = {Github},
  version      = {v0.3.0},
  url          = {https://github.com/runtsang/RebuttalStudio}
}