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Saad Mahamood
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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.
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Ninh Bình was pretty cool
View of a karst landscape from the top of one of the peaks. A body of water is in the foreground with peaks filling the rest of the left and right side of the frame, as well as the background. A late afternoon sky fills the upper third of the image.
November 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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The proceedings for INLG 2025 are now out: aclanthology.org/volumes/2025...
Proceedings of the 18th International Natural Language Generation Conference - ACL Anthology
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November 15, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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emnlpmeeting.bsky.social
🌉 #EMNLP2026 will be October 24-29th in Budapest! 🌉

Thanks all for a great conference, and see you at the next one!
An image of a conference presentation slide showing that EMNLP 2026 will be held October 24-29th in Budapest, with an audience below
November 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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ufal.mff.cuni.cz
Excited to share our work at #EMNLP2025! Our team is presenting 12 papers across the main conference and workshops, covering multilingual NLG, LLM agents, coreference resolution, and machine translation.
A thread with highlights 🧵👇
@ufal.mff.cuni.cz members, alumni and friends.
November 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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ufal.mff.cuni.cz
📊 Real-World Summarization: When Evaluation Reaches Its Limits
@patuchen.bsky.social , @tuetschek.bsky.social , @saad.me.uk
aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
For hotel highlights, metrics like word overlap surprisingly match human judgments better than complex methods. LLMs unreliable as evaluators.
Real-World Summarization: When Evaluation Reaches Its Limits
Patrícia Schmidtová, Ondrej Dusek, Saad Mahamood. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025. 2025.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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ehudreiter.bsky.social
I'm trying to understand OpenAI's healthbench. "HealthBench: Evaluating Large Language Models Towards Improved Human Health" doesnt say much about the BM(eg, very few examples). Are there other papers? I dont care how well model X performs, I want to judge if I can trust the BM
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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siggen.bsky.social
Reminder if you're at #INLG2025 and on LinkedIn that you can connect with other attendees in the official LinkedIn group: www.linkedin.com/groups/15688...
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November 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Today we've got two more workshops at #INLG2025 and the continuation of #VLSP2025!

Meeting today are LLMs for Medical Reasoning #LLM4MedR and #AiWolfDial!

2025.inlgmeeting.org/program.html
INLG2025
The 18th International Natural Language Generation Conference is scheduled to be held in Hanoi, Vietnam from October 29 to November 2, 2025.
2025.inlgmeeting.org
October 30, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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@davehowcroft.com leads the first keynote talk at the first young researchers workshop in NLG at INLG 2025.
October 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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@patuchen.bsky.social kicks of the first workshop for young researchers workshop at INLG 2025!
October 29, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Less than two weeks left until the start of #INLG2025! Who's coming to Vietnam to see the latest research in #NaturalLanguageGeneration?

2025.inlgmeeting.org
An image of the "one pillar pagoda" in Hanoi, Vietnam. A pagoda sits atop a pillar in a rectangular pond with lily pads and green water. A staircase runs from the edge of the pond up to the pagoda.
October 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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A speech about what drives me, how science and open source are bitter victories, unable to make improve the world if society does not embrace them for the better:
gael-varoquaux.info/personnal/a-...
A national recognition; but science and open source are bitter victories
I have recently been awarded France’s national order of merit, for my career, in science, in open source, and around AI. The speech that I gave carries messages important to me (French below;...
gael-varoquaux.info
October 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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forum.cspaper.org/topic/140/wh...

This is bad. But also shows how the need to publish in “A” ranked conferences is leading to bad outcomes for all parties.
When Acceptance Isn’t Enough: NeurIPS 2025 rejects 400 accepted papers due to venue crisis?
A Shock to the AI Research Community NeurIPS 2025, the 39th iteration of the world’s premier AI conference, finds itself embroiled in controversy. Despite pr...
forum.cspaper.org
October 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
saad.me.uk
I very much second this. I have also come across research papers with inscrutable diagrams. It just makes reading those papers an exercise in frustration.
ehudreiter.bsky.social ehudreiter.bsky.social @ehudreiter.bsky.social · Oct 8
New blog: Good diagrams for research papers

Ive seen a number of diagrams recently which are too complicated and difficult to understand. I explain some of the problems I see and give advice.

ehudreiter.com/2025/10/08/g...
Good diagrams for research papers
Ive seen a number of diagrams recently which are too complicated and difficult to understand. I explain some of the problems I see and give advice.
ehudreiter.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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ecekt.bsky.social
Hi all, there is a postdoc position open in the group I'm currently based in! ✨ Let me know if you are interested or have questions 🙂 Please share if you know someone who might be interested www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
Postdoctoral Researcher in Memory access in language
Help uncover how memory shapes language use. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Language Sciences, you will join the ERC-funded MEMLANG project.
www.uu.nl
October 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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dmimno.bsky.social
COLM word cloud. Yoav says it’s the year of reasoning, but evaluation is also huge.
Evaluation reasoning interpretability rl in context benchmark alignment synthetic data
October 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Kinder sollen nicht eine töte Erde erben.
leovongripsholm.bsky.social Leo von Gripsholm @leovongripsholm.bsky.social · Oct 6
springer muss sterben damit wir leben können
Meinung am Sonntag Der Klima-Sozialismus muss weg, wenn unsere Kinder in Deutschland eine Zukunft haben sollen Ein Leitartikel von BILD-Chefin Marion Horn
October 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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eaclmeeting.bsky.social
🌞 Reminder: EACL 2026 submissions (via ACL Rolling Review) are due TODAY AoE! 🌞

Do not forget to leave enough time for filling in the responsible NLP checklist! ✅

Submission link: openreview.net/group?id=acl...
October 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
saad.me.uk
The countdown to INLG 2025 (2025.inlgmeeting.org) has now started! In 25 days will meet for the 18th international conference on natural language generation in Hanoi, Vietnam. Come take a look at the accepted papers: 2025.inlgmeeting.org/accepted-pap...

I am looking forward to see you all there!
INLG2025
The 18th International Natural Language Generation Conference is scheduled to be held in Hanoi, Vietnam from October 29 to November 2, 2025.
2025.inlgmeeting.org
October 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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haspelmath.bsky.social
RIP Peter Eisenberg (1940-2025), syntactician of German, phonologist, orthography specialist, and very public linguist (who was not afraid of controversies). He was my second PhD advisor in 1990-93, and an important person in my life during those years at FU Berlin. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_E...
September 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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ehudreiter.bsky.social
Aberdeen CS is hiring! We are especially interested in hiring new faculty in NLP. Closing date is 8 Oct. For more info, see below (or contact me)

www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/vacanci...
Lecturer in Computing Science, Natural & Computing Sciences (NCS249A) | The University of Aberdeen
Browse and apply for current job openings at the University of Aberdeen across various schools, departments and roles, including admin and academic.
www.abdn.ac.uk
September 24, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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If you don't want LinkedIn to use your data to train generative AI models, make sure to opt out here: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...
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September 23, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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siggen.bsky.social
The registration page for #INLG2025 is now live! Join us in Vietnam at the Oct 29 - Nov 2 for the best conference on #NaturalLanguageGeneration

2025.inlgmeeting.org/registration...

Curious to see what will be presented? Check out this list of accepted papers! 2025.inlgmeeting.org/accepted-pap...
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September 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Computer scientists believe that soon every home will be able to have their own artificial intelligence machine on their own desktops (Source.)
A book that reads in block sans serif font, "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROJECTS FOR THE COMMODORE 64." The text is red, switching to gold for the words 'Commodore 64'. Cover bottom, a Commodore 64 - a light brown all-in-one microcomputer with dark brown keys - appears. In the center, a gold PCB in the shape of a human head radiates gold wires in the way wires might radiate from a chip, creating the silhouette of a head; in the center and neck of the head-shaped PCB, chips appear.
September 13, 2025 at 6:05 AM