15Reclassiﬁcation ﬂags work as exploratory, thereby in-
creasing transparency, but would not impact acceptance de-
cisions. An alternative, suggested by one of our reviewers,
would be to introduce intermediate reports as a required step
to share the results of the preregistered study before continu-
ing to preregister and test alternative hypotheses a part of the
same study. This further increases transparency, and prevents
having ‘unwanted’ results ‘swept under the rug’ in the ﬁnal
publication. Researchers working on a similar topic would
already beneﬁt from the results in an intermediate report.
A Two-Sided Discussion of Preregistration of NLP Research