I am a computer scientist who works on natural language generation and evaluation, often in healthcare contexts. I teach at Aberdeen University.
Aberdeen, Scotland
Joined May 2014
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Ehud Reiter retweeted
What is TMLR doing under a 300% increase in submissions?
- Suspensions of >150 authors
- Publicly naming major violations
- Submission quotas distinguishing slop patterns
- Desk rejections 6% → 53%; focus on clarity
- AI reviews evaluating soundness
blog.tmlr.org/2026/adapting-…
Just spent three days at a workshop on AI and Rabbinic/Talmudic studies. Very different! Also interesting from eval perspective - how eval AI in context where human experts can have quite different opinions?
Ehud Reiter retweeted
Going to EMNLP 2026 in Budapest?
We are looking for 20-30 EMNLP attendees to help us understand how you handle language barriers during a conference trip.
Contact Yujun Wang: [email protected]
Please share!
@EhudReiter @mar_kar_ Pinzhen Chen, Yujun Wang
Ehud Reiter retweeted
I encourage authors to publish "best publishable units" rather than "least publishable units"! end/
Ehud Reiter retweeted
Going to EMNLP 2026 in Budapest?
We are looking for 20-30 EMNLP attendees to help us understand how you handle language barriers during a conference trip.
Contact Yujun Wang: [email protected]
Please share!
@EhudReiter @mar_kar_ Pinzhen Chen, Yujun Wang
Ehud Reiter retweeted
Attention arXiv authors. Because of the exponential increase in submissions, arXiv is limiting the number of papers that a person can submit each month to two. 1/
arXiv has updated our policy on rate limiting for all submitters.
This update was made to fairly distribute moderator time & support the arXiv community of staff, volunteers, readers & authors.
Please read our announcement to learn more: blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/up…
ALT arXiv logo in white over a whiteboard with math symbols.
Next week I am giving an invited talk at a workshop on AI in Rabbinic/Talmud studies, in Israel. Never done anything like this before, will be really interesting to see how AI is used in this space.
I see lots of posts "our lab has N papers in VENUE". Congratulations, but what is more useful to me is short 3-5 line descriptions of a paper which will convince me to open it and read abstract. With link to final (not submitted) version.
Excited that my student Yujun Wang will present (oral) at EMNLP on "Beyond Accuracy: Community Perspectives on Machine Translation". Many of my students have looked at stakeholder requirements/concerns. Need to underdstand in order to align AI with humans!
arxiv.org/abs/2606.09655
AI is improving productivity in science, but so far this has led to a flood of low-quality spam and large amounts of so-so papers. I dont see increase in the really high-quality research that science needs! Maybe blame perverse incentives in science that priotitise quantity.
If AI is risk to humanity, it is because of human stupidity. In 1983 hallucinating Soviet satellite almost started nuclear war, stopped by sensible human. In 2026, hallucinating AI almost led US military to attack Chinese ship, due to poor human oversight
edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p…
I love the phrase "paper-shaped objects" in below
"modern AI systems can generate paper-shaped objects even for users who are unfamiliar with the related work and writing conventions for a given area,"
blog.iclr.cc/2026/09/02/subm…
I see submissions from people who are trying to learn how to do research using LLMs. This is dubious, and do not expect TACL (etc) to teach research skills! I suggest you get involved with local research: attend workshop, join seminar series, help in a research project, etc
New blog: Localising NLG content in a driving feedback system
NLG systems need to localise content for different countries and cultures. Two of my PhD students have written a nice case study paper about this for INLG, in a driving feedback domain.
ehudreiter.com/2026/09/17/lo…
Ehud Reiter retweeted
Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers.
He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them.
TMLR has faced a deluge of submissions, necessitating stricter desk rejection policies due to limited reviewer capacity
Co-EiC Nihar Shah reached out to authors of 10 papers slated for desk reject. Could they answer questions about their *own* submission?
medium.com/@TmlrOrg/asking-a…
Congratulations to my student @MengxuanS for passing her PhD viva with minor corrections! Mengxuan's thesis was on Designing and Evaluating Natural Language Processing Tools for Patient-Centred Communication in Cancer Care
Years ago you only needed papers when applying for job as post-doc or faculty. Now secondary-school students are using LLMs to write papers, to help them get into a good UG university... Inevitable result is wave of AI slop, which (as below) "authors" may not even understand.
We are seeing a new trend in submissions to @arxiv (and presumably to conferences and journals): Authors submitting papers whose contents they likely do not understand. 1/
Ehud Reiter retweeted
We are seeing a new trend in submissions to @arxiv (and presumably to conferences and journals): Authors submitting papers whose contents they likely do not understand. 1/
New blog: Desk rejection is an unfortunate necessity
Editors can desk reject papers without sending them to reviewers, eg because of wrong format or weak content. I dont like doing this, but flood of “AI slop” papers makes this an unfortunate necessity.
ehudreiter.com/2026/09/08/de…
