I am a computer scientist who works on natural language generation and evaluation, often in healthcare contexts. I teach at Aberdeen University.
Joined May 2014
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Ehud Reiter retweeted
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Code volume does not represent productivity.
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Jun 8
New blog: I am worried by NLP research culture
NLG and NLP are mostly much better in 2026 than when I got my PhD in 1990. Unfortunately research culture has gotten *worse” in this period, which really worries me as I retire.
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Jun 4
I felt honoured and was very happy to get an Outstanding Contribution in NLG award from @siggen_acl !
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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!
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May 29
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/
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May 27
I remember seeing very dubious advice from OpenAI a few years ago on evaluation. So I was happy to see quite sensible recent advice from Anthropic on evaluation
anthropic.com/engineering/de…
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May 26
Really interesting scoping review that points out numerous flaws in LLM-as-Judge evaluation in healthcare, including minimal human oversight, absent bias testing, model monoculture, ignore implicit eval components, no check for consistency over time (etc)
arxiv.org/abs/2604.25933
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May 26
Someone asked me what were the highlights of my career, I responded with a list of papers which I was proud of. I did not mention grants, awards, jobs, etc. I know some people are proudest of their grants (etc), but for me it was always scientific outputs.
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May 25
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
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May 20
New blog: Software engineering of prompts
Creating complex prompts for LLMs faces similar software engineering challenges as conventional software (requirements, design, testing, maintenance). We need to understand good software engineering for prompts.
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May 19
Congrats to my student Jawwad Baig for passing his PhD viva! Topic was “Data-to-Text NLG Feedback for Safer Driving”. Jawwad did his PhD part-time (ie, evenings and weekends while he worked fulltime) and remote (lives in England), which is very tough, but he still completed
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Ehud Reiter retweeted
May 17
The Call for Papers for #INLG2026 is out!
🗓️ Submit by July 15 (AoE)
💍 ARR commit by August 5
🆕 Squibs welcomed (raising an issue without needing to solve it)
🆕 Non-archival track for WIP
📍Utrecht, NL — Oct 17–21, just before EMNLP
2026.inlgmeeting.org/calls.h…
#NLProc #INLG
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May 15
I think we need meaningful penalties on fraudulent academic papers. Glad to see Arxiv is taking action!
The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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May 13
Have now resigned as ARR (meta-)reviewer. I will continue to do some reviewing after retirement, but not ARR. I dont think mega-conf are the right way to present important research findings, and ARR reviewing is not enjoyable, eg I have no control over what I am asked to review
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May 10
Asked about students cheating in CS using AI. Said I was not concerned about cheating distorting marks, but was very concerned that it demotivated students from learning. I gave assess which AI cannot do, failure rate skyrocketed compared to prev year
ehudreiter.com/2026/05/05/ai…
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May 9
Visiting the old Roman temple (now a museum) beneath Bloomberg's London office, with my wife Ann. Very impressive!
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Ehud Reiter retweeted
Our CTO #DataScience Speaker Series welcomes Prof. Ehud Reiter (@EhudReiter) of @aberdeenuni to our London office today to talk with our #AI researchers about designing protocols for high quality human evaluation of generated texts
bloom.bg/4cOpT1A
#NLProc #LLMs
ALT Ehud Reiter is a Professor of Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen.
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May 5
New blog: AI and CS Teaching
How will AI impact CS teaching? Biggest challenge is adapting what we teach to a world where AI assistants are heavily used. We should also use AI tutors. Least important is making assessments more resistant to AI cheating
ehudreiter.com/2026/05/05/ai…
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Ehud Reiter retweeted
What % of the NLP papers measure their impact in the real world? This paper proposes an "impact evaluation" of NLP models or systems for real-world usage, changing the research culture of NLP to focus more on real-world
impact and less on SOTA-chasing: doi.org/10.1162/COLI.a.18
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May 1
Our final year UG students turn in their honours projects today. Supervising projects is the nicest part of teaching for me - always learning something, and great to supervise students 1-1. Really nice projects this year on evaluating LLM in real-world, and digital humanities.
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