The “pains” of too-fast-growth—open issues from #EMNLP2024, one of the largest NLP conferences: — AI-generated reviews & papers — Authors with an extremely high number of submissions (as many as 55 in one cycle!) — Reviewers plagiarizing reviews — Public discussion of reviews

Wow—I've never seen such a brazen offer in predatory journal #spam!  (Though something tells me that if I submitted a paper that was 100% plagiarized, they'd happily publish it anyway as long as I paid the APC.) #predatorypublishing

Are you a #TeX or #LaTeX user wondering what's happened to comp.text.tex now that #GoogleGroups has shuttered its #Usenet gateway? We give an explanation in the latest TUGboat: The Communications of the TeX Users Group: tug.org/TUGboat/tb45-3…

LibreOffice doesn't do this. Enough said.

From reddit.com/r/Professors/c…: "University Presses > Routledge > = (a bunch of specialty presses like Polity/ Brill) > Taylor Francis> Springer >>>>>>>> World scientific." I'd come up with a similar mental ranking. How do you rank #academic book #publishers in your field?

🎲 Test your Attic-English translation skills! 📖 Answers in Babel No49 (Winter 2024), available at babelzine.co.uk ✍️ Language Games from Tristan Miller @[email protected]

Come join us at University of Manitoba! My Department has open positions for two Assistant or Associate Professors of #ComputerScience: universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?jo…

A reminder that I'm still accepting queries from prospective PhD students for Fall 2025! If you're interested in #CompLing or #NLProc for humour, historical online corpora, or #Indigenous languages, please get in touch! clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/open-positions

Do #LandAcknowledgements accomplish anything or are they merely performative, possibly even hypocritical? Does formulaic repetition render them meaningless? I appreciated Chelsea Vowel's exploration of these and other questions: apihtawikosisan.com/2024/11/revisi… #TruthAndReconciliation

I'm on Austrian public radio again, this time discussing PunCAT, a computer-assisted #translation tool for #humour. The show is available online at sound.orf.at/radio/oe1/send… and my segment starts at about 12 minutes and 35 seconds in.

🔎 Can YOU identify these conlangs? 🤫 Don't give the answers away! Enter our COLOSSAL conlang contest by 1 May for a chance to win The Babel Lexicon of Language 🔗 Enter at forms.gle/StAoCUyAGBSsEB…

❓ Do YOU know what these languages are? 🏆 Then enter the Tristan Miller @[email protected] conlangs contest, and you could win The Babel Lexicon of Language! 🔗 Enter at forms.gle/StAoCUyAGBSsEB… (see 25 March post for all pics)

🏆 Win! A Babel subscription + The Babel Lexicon of Language 🕵️ Identify as many conlangs as you can in our COLOSSAL conlang contest 📮 Enter at forms.gle/StAoCUyAGBSsEB… before 1 May 🧩 Language Games by Tristan Miller @[email protected]

🛸 Swot up for Babel's COLOSSAL conlangs contest! 👽 In Babel No18, Deak Kirkham looks at some popular conlangs: babelzine.co.uk/images/Article… ✍️Submit your answers at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… 🧩 Language Games by Tristan Miller @[email protected]

Together with Katie Szilagyi and Avery Dame-Griff, Big-8 Management Board members Tristan Miller @[email protected] and Z80 Inside convened a panel on #Usenet as an #archive of digital discourse at #BDCAM25: big-8.org/wiki/Usenet_pa…

❓ What does 'footing' mean? ⚽ or 👟 or 🏃? 🇮🇹 Test your itanglese in the new Babel with Tristan Miller @[email protected]'s Language Games... 🏪 Pick up issues & subscriptions at babelzine.co.uk

I'm featured in a video from University of Manitoba promoting studies at the Department of Computer Science: youtu.be/5vgh0IutGHk I'm still accepting graduate student applications for my research group in #AI and #NLProc!

📝 Friday quiz! Tristan Miller @[email protected] tests your Catalan chrononomy 📖 Find the answers inside the brand new Babel No52... 📚 Print & digital issues available at babelzine.co.uk

I'm co-editing a special issue for the European Journal of #Humour Research on humanistic or social-scientific perspectives on humour and #AI. Abstract submissions are open until 1 October: clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/ejhr #humorstudies #artificialintelligence

Are you working on #ScientificDiscovery with #LLMs? There's still one more day to submit to our IJCNLP–AACL workshop on human–LLM collaboration: sciprodllm.github.io/2025/cfp.html #NLProc #ArtificialIntelligence