Dave Howcroft

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.h… Curious to see what will be presented? Check out this list of accepted papers! 2025.inlgmeeting.org/accepted-paper…

The first papers are already submitted, but for anyone hoping for an extra week to work on their paper, I have very good news! Deadline for #INLG2025 has been extended until July 18th (midnight, AoE). Submit your most exciting work on generation! 2025.inlgmeeting.org

The Second #CallForPapers just went out and announces two of our keynote speakers: Verena Rieser (Google DeepMind) & Minlie Huang (Tsinghua University)! Submit your work on NLG, whether LLM or rule-based :D Deadline: 14 July 2025.inlgmeeting.org (first posted elsewhere)

Tweets deleted. Won't be checking here. Find me on Mastodon and Bluesky if you want to keep in touch. The owner of the site has made it worse and is contributing to efforts to undermine democracy in the US, the UK, and Germany. I don't want to support him by staying here.

You know the BEST thing about ancient history? All that pristine grey-white stone! SO CLASSY AND REGAL. Look at this gorgeously monochrome scene from 'Gladiator'. Just look at how *right* it looks. Yeah. Except - no. Get ready for a shock. 1/

Faculty have been posting threads like this for over a decade and it changes nothing. I am tired of it. You all need to create better admittance and application system. You are failing students and occasional threads of "tips" is not a fix. You ARE the system you are critiquing.

Cis men also face harassment in their gendered spaces if they are slight, short, have long hair, don’t obviously grow facial hair even when clean shaven, prefer not to use a urinal, are disinterested in bonding rituals centered around misogyny and violence, and more