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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Here's the list of accepted papers for #INLG2026: 2026.inlgmeeting.org/accepted-pap... Much to see at the conference, but as always this will be a single-track program. I love this set-up, as it creates common ground for attendees to discuss what they've seen. Registration is open now! #NLP #AI

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The 19th International Natural Language Generation Conference is scheduled to be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands from October 17 to 21, 2026.

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I am looking for public motivations of AI use for marketing purposes. If you see any examples, please send them to me. Here's an example from the brand Marc O'Polo: "We make targeted use of AI-generated images - in areas where they help us create more diverse visual worlds ..." #AI #Marketing 1/2

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

**Please repost** If you're enjoying Paper Skygest -- our personalized feed of academic content on Bluesky -- we'd appreciate you reposting this! We’ve found that the most effective way for us to reach new users and communities is through users sharing it with their network

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

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

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Natural Language Generation by Ehud Reiter

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This week the decisions for #COLM are out (8th of July) and the #EMNLP author response period has started (July 7-13). If you're looking for an alternative #NLProc venue: please consider #INLG! (Either via ARR or direct submissions.) Submission deadline is July 15. See: 2026.inlgmeeting.org

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INLG2026

The 19th International Natural Language Generation Conference is scheduled to be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands from October 17 to 21, 2026.

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

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.

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

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

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INLG2026

The 19th International Natural Language Generation Conference is scheduled to be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands from October 17 to 21, 2026.

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

📣 Announcing the release of the 🕊️ Annotated Encyclical 🕊️ from the ethics & society folks at @hf.co. Includes citations to relevant academic work. Very much a WIP. Please add work we haven't added yet! huggingface.co/spaces/socie...

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The Annotated Encyclical - a Hugging Face Space by society-ethics

Magnifica Humanitas, annotated with AI-ethics research

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

It is somewhat disappointing that the flagship journals of NLP (CL and TACL) only publish PDFs. It would be great if we could somehow move to include HTML publications as well. More generally, the accessibility of documents in the ACL Anthology is limited. We're building massive technical debt.

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Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

In a post-CHI blog post, I talk about what I believe technology like the Anthropic Interviewer will mean for qualitative research. doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/qualitativ...

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Not the best idea ever to announce this during the Bluesky blackout..

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Ehud Reiter @ehudreiter.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Noce paper on how well benchmarks cover what people do at work arxiv.org/abs/2603.01203 Quote "these observations suggest that agent benchmarking effort is driven less by alignment with real-world employment structure or economic value, and more by methodological convenience."

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How Well Does Agent Development Reflect Real-World Work?

AI agents are increasingly developed and evaluated on benchmarks relevant to human work, yet it remains unclear how representative these benchmarking efforts are of the labor market as a whole. In thi...

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

@ai2.bsky.social I'm confused by the OLMoTrace paper. The paper says that the trace feature is useful for "Fact checking" (see image), but the Limitations section notes: "The retrieved documents should not be interpreted as [...] supporting evidence or citations for the LM output." A contradiction?

Image showing generated text on the left hand side, and text from the matching training data on the right hand side. The caption reads: "(a) Fact checking: Inspecting the document (and its source
URL) helps verify the factual claim made in the span."

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Article is in Dutch, but maybe understandable via Google Translate. TL;DR: AI poetry is used in 3 different ways. 1. To study progress in creative computing; 2. To explore new literary forms and to see how people interpret those; 3. To (deceptively) market AI with appeals to its 'humanity.'

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I should have known this: not all innovations are improvements.

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

PSA: Today I learned that quizzes created in the Canvas learning management system using the New Quiz Builder don't allow you to export all student answers to Excel/CSV. This has been a problem since 2021. Don't use the new quiz builder. Use the old one. community.instructure.com/en/discussio...

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Export All Quiz Answers from All Students as a CSV or EXCEL spreadsheet or XML data structure - Instructure Community

We are developing new psychometric methods for student response data analysis. Is there a way to export the individual responses of all students to all questions for a quiz such as a CSV or EXCEL or X...

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Surprising omission: the @aclrollingreview.bsky.social website does not have an easily findable button to sign up as a reviewer. Seems like a missed opportunity.

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Some years ago, I bought Joseph Weizenbaum's book on Computer Power and Human Reason for a couple of dollars. Nice to have a classic work on computers and society. Following the AI boom, the price of secondhand copies has skyrocketed: more than 100 dollars for a used copy!

Screenshot of Bookfinder.com, showing search results for "Computer power and human reason." The book is listed new for over $700, and used for over $100.

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

We just published a position paper on the evaluation of dialog systems, roughly asking: 1. Why don't we talk more about usage requirements for evaluation metrics? 2. Should we only adapt metrics to dialog, or can we also adapt dialog to suit metrics? URL: aclanthology.org/2025.gem-1.18/ #NLProc

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Measure only what is measurable: towards conversation requirements for evaluating task-oriented dialogue systems

Emiel Van Miltenburg, Anouck Braggaar, Emmelyn Croes, Florian Kunneman, Christine Liebrecht, Gabriella Martijn. Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Generation, Evaluation and Metrics (GEM²). 2025.

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I'm looking for studies on the mood/atmosphere/affective dimensions of photographs, but it's hard to find relevant work. Any recommendations?

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SIGGEN & INLG @siggen.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The first papers are already submitted, but for anyone hoping for an extra week to work on their paper, I have very good news! The deadline for submitting to #INLG2025 has been extended until July 18th (end of the day anywhere on earth, AoE). Submit your work on generation! 2025.inlgmeeting.org

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INLG2025

The 18th International Natural Language Generation Conference is scheduled to be held in Hanoi, Vietnam from October 29 to November 2, 2025.

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Does anyone know whether there are automatic solutions to detect either "ghost references" (academic sources that do not actually exist) or improper citations (misrepresenting claims in earlier work)? Would be a very interesting #nlp #nlproc challenge, and useful to flag potential fraud.

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Just over a month left to submit to INLG2025, hosted in Hanoi, Vietnam! INLG is the annual @siggen.bsky.social conference for research on any aspect of Natural Language Generation: (large) language models, rule-based generation, applications, human/automatic evaluation of output quality, etc.

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Curious new #NLProc/#NLP paper aiming to quantify the extent to which a language model can potentially generate all valid strings from a language without generating strings that do not belong to the language: arxiv.org/abs/2504.14370 Very similar to generative linguistics, but Chomsky is not cited.

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Density Measures for Language Generation

The recent successes of large language models (LLMs) have led to a surge of theoretical research into language generation. A recent line of work proposes an abstract view, called language generation i...

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David Peeters @davidpeeters.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Today we strike! My first day off since 2017 - Thanks @eppobruins.bsky.social

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Marijn Sax @marijnsax.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Mijn opiniestuk over domme AI-hype-stukjes op (o.a.) televisie, perfect verbeeld door Klöppings verhaal over ChatGPT als psycholoog. Wat zulk commentaar dom maakt is niet eens zozeer een verkeerd begrip van de technologie zélf, maar totale onkunde over de echte wereld. www.trouw.nl/opinie/opini...

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Opinie: AI wordt alleen té slim, als we onszelf dom voordoen

Wie denkt dat ChatGPT een therapeut kan vervangen, onderschat onze complexe sociale werkelijkheid, betoogt filosoof Marijn Sax.

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

INLG2025 will be in Hanoi, Vietnam. If you work on Natural Language Generation #NLG, please consider submitting! It's a really fun conference with attention for both #LLMs and more traditional natural language generation techniques. More information via: 2025.inlgmeeting.org #NLProc

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INLG2025

The 18th International Natural Language Generation Conference is scheduled to be held in Hanoi, Vietnam from October 29 to November 2, 2025.

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

If you are organizing a workshop in the United States, please consider adding a statement on remote attendance. Given the stories in the media about academia being under threat and grants being canceled based on their topic, it doesn't feel safe to go there if you work on those topics.

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Results: Two weeks ago I was looking for Vision & Language models, and @dcatteeu.bsky.social helpfully suggested to look at the Open VLM Leaderboard. At least two models are not on the list, even though they look really nice: 1. Pixtral, by @mistralai.bsky.social 2. Molmo, by @ai2.bsky.social

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

i know people are coming here for catharsis and that's fine but when you are done screaming please pick something you can do that will help people and do it. you don't accomplish anything by rolling around in the fear all day

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I'm looking for the current best Vision & Language models that can be run on a modern laptop, ideally through LMStudio. I currently have Qwen2.5-VL 7B and LLaVA 1.5 7B. Any others I should consider? #NLP #NLProc #ML #AI

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I recently answered a question for the Dutch "AI helpdesk" on the future of LLMs: ikhebeenvraagoverai.nl/answers/wat-... Interesting exercise to write a short answer in plain language. I really enjoyed this! At the same time it's hard to provide a nuanced answer in ~1000 words. I hope it's useful.

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Wat zou een grotere prioriteit moeten krijgen om Large Language Models (LLM’s) zoals ChatGPT veilig en betrouwbaar verder te ontwikkelen?

Large Language Models (LLM’s), Confabulaties en Hallucinaties in LLM’s

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 27/01/2025

What is a good pointer for a lecture/tutorial about the empirical process of LM/NLP/ML solution development? Rather than the technical details of models, optimization, etc. Basically, how to work with data, evaluation, measure generalization, overfitting, etc.

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Not sure how documents like these (i.e., reports on community matters) should be published. I just went for ArXiv, at least for the first version of the report, but there should be a place to make these kinds of documents more findable.

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

During my time in the SIGGEN board, we received a request from the @aclmeeting.bsky.social executive board to create an overview of dual use issues in Natural Language Generation. In response, I carried out a survey. The results are here: arxiv.org/abs/2501.06636 Feedback is very welcome.

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Dual use issues in the field of Natural Language Generation

This report documents the results of a recent survey in the SIGGEN community, focusing on Dual Use issues in Natural Language Generation (NLG). SIGGEN is the Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Associ...

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SIGGEN & INLG @siggen.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

Good news everybody! You have an extra 7 days to prepare you submissions for #INLG2024! Please let everyone you know know! The new deadline for Friday, 7th of June 11:59 PM AOE! inlg2024.github.io/calls.html

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INLG2024

The 17th International Natural Language Generation Conference is scheduled to be held in Tokyo, Japan from September 23rd to 27th, 2024.

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 25/05/2024

Do you have experience writing ALT-text or any other image descriptions for accessibility purposes? (On BlueSky or elsewhere.) Please fill in our survey! URL: tilburghumanities.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please share widely! #a11y #accessibility

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Survey on Image Description

Do you have any experience providing image descriptions (also known as ALT-text)? Please fill in our survey! This is part of the Experience Matters project, funded by ZonMw. Principal investigators: E...

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

New #NLProc paper on the evaluation of task-oriented dialogue systems: arxiv.org/abs/2312.13871 This took a while to complete (#slowscience), but it was really nice to be able to contribute to the paper.

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

I’m interested to learn more about science and technology studies (#sts). What is the best place to start? I’ve found this book by Sergio Sismondo: www.wiley.com/en-in/An+Int... Is that the recommended starting point or should I look elsewhere?

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An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies, 2nd Edition

An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies, Second Edition reflects the latest advances in the field while continuing to provide students with a road map to the complex interdisciplinary ter...

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