The International conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG) just issued the first Call For Papers: 2026.inlgmeeting.org/calls.html
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Our analysis is based on this article by @lakens.bsky.social: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
The original article discusses arguments that are used in empirical research to justify the choice of sample size. We translated those justification strategies to the domain of LLMs.
An important step when designing an empirical study is to justify the sample size that will be collected. The key aim of a sample size justification for such studies is to explain how the collected da...online.ucpress.edu
The 19th International Natural Language Generation Conference is scheduled to be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands from October 17 to 21, 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!
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Magnifica Humanitas, annotated with AI-ethics research
Noce paper on how well benchmarks cover what people do at work
arxiv.org/abs/2603.01203
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"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."
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...
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.'
Emiel van Miltenburg
Emiel van Miltenburg
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.
