Save the date: Am Freitag, 23. April 2027 findet die zweite bundesweite "Nacht der Bibliotheken" statt. #bibnacht 😍 Und für alle #Bibliotheken gibt es am 24.09. von 10:00-11.00 Uhr ein Online-Seminar mit allen Infos des Deutschen Bibliotheksverbandes. www.nachtderbibliotheken.de/news/4294161...

New blog: AI for Healthcare: Great benchmarks but minimal impact AI in healthcare benchmarks show soaring perf, but in the real world AI is not actually helping people much. Reasons include messy real world, weak eval, deployment, and lack of utility ehudreiter.com/2026/08/05/a...

AI for Healthcare: Great benchmarks but minimal impact

The paradox of AI in healthcare is that while benchmarks show soaring (and sometimes superhuman) performance, in the real world AI is not actually helping people much. This is partially because rea…

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‼️In Düsseldorf Kalkum wurde eine Granate gefunden. Rund 120 Menschen müssen ihre Wohnung verlassen. Bitte folgt den Evakuierungsaufforderungen im Gefahrenbereich zügig, um die Entschärfung nicht unnötig zu verzögern. 🙏 ➡️ https://ow.ly/zkSU50ZwA2X

YNLG Is a great opportunity for young researchers to get into NLG research and get meaningful advice from us senior researchers.

Dave Howcroft 🦔 is participating in action short of a strike ✊️@davehowcroft.com · yesterday

Are you a new researcher in #NLG? An MSc or PhD student or a postdoc new to natural language generation? Do you want to find advice and community? Check out the #YNLG workshop happening at #INLG2026! (One week left to submit) ynlg-workshop.github.io

Librarians are the effectively the “canary in the coal mine” of the health of a country.

Stephan Schwering 🏳️‍🌈@stpnlibrarian.bsky.social · yesterday

"The Librarians" zeigt den Kampf gegen Zensur in US-Bibliotheken und für Informationsfreiheit, Vielfalt und demokratische Werte. Sehenswert und bei filmfriend.de mit Bibliothekskarte zum Streamen! 👇 @filmfriend.bsky.social #bibliotheken www.filmfriend.de/de/movies/th...

"The Librarians" zeigt den Kampf gegen Zensur in US-Bibliotheken und für Informationsfreiheit, Vielfalt und demokratische Werte. Sehenswert und bei filmfriend.de mit Bibliothekskarte zum Streamen! 👇 @filmfriend.bsky.social #bibliotheken www.filmfriend.de/de/movies/th...

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Seit dem Jahr 2021 haben in den USA Versuche der Zensur von Buchbeständen in Bibliotheken massiv zugenommen. Vor allem Schul-, aber auch öffentlich...

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That’s not sustainable in the long run. I hope there are some sensible reforms to ensure quality over quantity.

EACL 2027@eaclmeeting.bsky.social · yesterday

4134 submissions have been submitted to the ARR August cycle, a 14% increase compared to the ARR October 2025 cycle corresponding to EACL🔥. #EACL2027 in Athens is likely to be the biggest EACL ever 👀 #NLProc @aclrollingreview.bsky.social

Just reminder that INLG 2026 is still open for ARR commitments: openreview.net/group?id=acl...

ACL Rolling Review (ARR)@aclrollingreview.bsky.social · 6d ago

📢 ARR May 2026 update Metareviews will be released by the end of July 30 (AoE). We have received 99.6% and are working hard to collect the final 0.4%. Please bear with us! #ARR #ACL #AACL #EMNLP #NLProc

“Poorly exercised judgment” is when you say an unkind word. Not inducing people to get tattoos…

regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸@ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 6d ago

oh my god a Y Combinator startup called LemonLime threw a party, brought in a tattoo artist offering free tattoos, and then said they would give an immediate job interview to anyone who got a tattoo of their logo what is wrong with these people.

Not sure if it is premature, but the music is slowing…

George Pearkes@peark.es · 6d ago

An 8 employee hedge fund that was up hundreds of percent and used aggressive leverage is asking investors for more cash to meet margin calls. The tropes in this particular bull market couldn’t get any lazier. www.ft.com/content/2803...

Congrats to my student Mengxuan Sun for submitting her PhD thesis! Mengxuan is joint CS/Medicine and is looking at using NLP to help cancer patients.

TACL is looking for more co-editors, apply by 31 July if interested www.aclweb.org/portal/conte... Also TACL is always looking for people to join its standing reviewer pool. In general, TACL reviewers should have PhD, 10 first-author papers, and 1K citations

Several reviewers with no technical background told me they reviewed for NeurIPS using agents, stating they didn't understand what the work is about. Asked how they could trust the review. They said when the paper hits the socials, the people will catch the errors.

Naomi Saphra@nsaphra.bsky.social · 2w ago

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📢 Call for Papers: YNLG 2026 The Young Researchers in Natural Language Generation workshop is a 2d in-person event part of INLG 2026 @inlg.bsky.social in Utrecht 🇳🇱, with poster sessions, keynote talks, roundtable discussions, and a one-day hackathon. Due: August 10, 2026 ynlg-workshop.github.io

“I dont see why I should volunteer my (unpaid) time to review papers whose main purpose is to burnish someone else’s CV.” I’m also seeing people wanting to volunteer for reviewing in subjects they have no expertise in. I’d encourage folks to publish in smaller more focused scientific venues.

@ehudreiter.bsky.social · 4w ago

New blog: What is the purpose of ACL conferences? What is the main pupose of ACL conferencess: meeting people, enhancing CVs, identifying good papers, or providing a home for exciting science? The best reviewing system depends on the goal of our conf ehudreiter.com/2026/07/09/w...

Our book review of @ehudreiter.bsky.social 's book on Natural Language Generation is finally out: direct.mit.edu/coli/article... #NLProc

Natural Language Generation by Ehud Reiter

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I am becoming an editor (EiC) at TACL (Transactions of ACL) journal. Not what I expected to be doing in retirement, but I am a strong believer in journals as the best way to present research, and I want to help TACL become an even better venue for publishing NLP research.

We’re honoured that the pattern on the new Aberdeen Football Club away strip is inspired by the striking façade of the University’s Sir Duncan Rice Library, reinforcing the partnership between two of the great institutions of Aberdeen. University of Aberdeen Library.

Good to know * INLG also welcomes dual submissions. * The conference is held right before & relatively close to EMNLP, so you could attend both. * You can either submit directly (deadline: July 15) or commit a reviewed paper from ARR.

Emiel van Miltenburg@evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · last mo.

INLG (@inlg.bsky.social) submissions are now open! Please submit all of your work on Natural Language Generation. Submit systems, demos, experiments, position papers, squibs, linguistic analyses, as long as it is NLG-related. For more information, see: 2026.inlgmeeting.org #NLProc

INLG (@inlg.bsky.social) submissions are now open! Please submit all of your work on Natural Language Generation. Submit systems, demos, experiments, position papers, squibs, linguistic analyses, as long as it is NLG-related. For more information, see: 2026.inlgmeeting.org #NLProc

The 2nd Call for Papers for #INLG2026 is out! Two ways to submit: 📄 Direct submissions, archival and not, by 15 July: openreview.net/group?id=acl... 💍 ARR commitments by 5 August: openreview.net/group?id=acl... ——— 📍Utrecht, NL — Oct 17–21, 2026, right before EMNLP 2026.inlgmeeting.org/calls.html

Really enjoyed helping my colleague Jakub Zbrzezny from our Divinity dept look at how well LLMs can translate biblical materials in a local Arabic dialect. Not surprisingly, LLMs good at translating out of dialect, but struggle to translate into dialect. aclanthology.org/2026.retroev...

The Arabic Bible as an Evaluation Tool: The Case Study of the Khalīlī Arabic Dialect

Jakub Zbrzeżny, Ehud Reiter, Wei Zhao. Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Natural Language Generation Evaluations. 2026.

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I would like give my heartfelt congratulations to Eduardo Calò for successfully defending his PhD thesis on “Automatically Expressing the Meaning of Logical Formulae in Natural Lanaguage” at @cs-nlp-uu.bsky.social earlier today.

I am pleased to announce that the proceedings for RetroEval have now been published on ACL Anthology: aclanthology.org/volumes/2026...

The media is not properly covering this but they'll breathlessly report the rising price of SpaceX, luring in idiots thinking it'll go up forever. That'll drive the hype and price increase further. It's one giant pump and dump fleecing everyone's retirement accounts and retail investors.

Do you sometimes have to explain to engineers that the main role of science is not to produce software? Once in a while I see people comment on some paper along the lines of “but it’s not efficient” or “I can’t use this in production” as if this was what research is about.

Ehud gave a provocative closing talk about research culture at #RetroEval last week and I really agree with him. It's very hard to move slowly and do good science when the culture is to move fast and not worry too much so long as you're getting published, even if it's not useful or reproducible.

@ehudreiter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New blog: I am worried by NLP research culture NLG and NLP are mostly much better in 2026 than when I got my PhD in 1990. Unfortunately research culture has gotten *worse” in this period, which really worries me as I retire. ehudreiter.com/2026/06/08/n...

We had a fantastic time last week discussing the current challenges in NLG evaluation and celebrating the career of @ehudreiter.bsky.social. Pictures and a few video clips are now available: retroeval.github.io/_pages/media I would like to thank @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social for their support.

Took lots of noce pictures at my Retroeval retirement symposium. One of my favourites was me with my first and last PhD students, Sandra Williams and Yujun Wang!