Hi, PL reserach in general is my cup of tea, too. I find the idea of a "best paper" catalogue for conferences in the PLDI-area in general very appealing; similar to the site the OP posted. Since you mention that we're not alone, we should probably pool our resources, what do you think? (Probably host a site somewhere...)

EDIT: 2-10 papers a day is an awesome rate!

Hey, we're not "alone". Just check out the people I follow on twitter.

There is a huge community of PL enthusiasts.

We can setup a site, but the field is too diverse. Right now it mostly makes sense as each of use tweeting a summary of a paper :-)

I'm also interested, specifically in parsing techniques, especially GLR :) @terseguy

Just curious, how long does it take to "go through" 2-10 papers a day? Do you read in detail, only if the abstract grabs you, skim for important points...?

Don't know how long it takes me, but it's usually from the moment I want up until 3PM or so. I usually get up craving research (when I am on the up and up; other days I hate research and miss the bits and bytes, starting my day in Emacs.)

I rarely read the abstracts. I find interesting papers in the references of other interesting papers.

I usually skip the first 15% of the introductory prose, go to the meat, jump to the conclusions and "future work", and if I think the paper covers enough ground, I fast forward to its references and see if the authors are aware of the seminal works. Only then do I actually read it.

For the truly important ones, you're already aware for their findings from texts, since they're cited often. For the useless ones (the majority) you're just interested in one idea, technique, finding or implementation method, and it's easy to zoom in. But from time to time you will come across a diamond in the rough that isn't as well known as it should.

Would you mind sending some my way too? My specialization is more in applications; in libraries/domain specific languages, particularly ones for AI/statistics applications and functional logic programming.

Email's in my profile.

The email in your profile is broken. Here is what I tried to send you:

Hi there partition,

I can't just send papers your way, but you're free to ask me questions and I will relay to my social circle of PL snobs (most of whom are in my twitter follows anyway)