AI Lead at Shopware. Active researcher in the field of Natural Language Generation. Board member of @siggen.bsky.social.
🌐 Homepage: https://saad.me.uk
#NLG #NLP #NLProc.
Saad Mahamood
Lists of the accepted papers for RetroEval are now available on the symposium website: retroeval.github.io/_pages/accep...
I'm looking forward to my retirement workshop, which starts on Monday 1 June!! Will be great to catch up with former students and colleagues, and also discuss NLG evaluation.
retroeval.github.io
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!
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.
Saad Mahamood
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.
I wrote paper on "NLG Evaluation: Past, Present, Future" for Retroeval. Eval has changed enornously over my career! In future, I expect more on stuff relevant to real-world usage, including impact, qualitative studies, safety in worst/adversarial case
arxiv.org/abs/2605.23715
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.
As Prof Ehud Reiter retires, we’re celebrating a University career that helped define how machines communicate. A pioneer of Natural Language Generation, his work laid the groundwork for modern AI - shaping how systems decide what to say, how to say it, & how to adapt to different audiences.
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