Reminder: early registration for #SIGDIAL2023 + #INLG2023 is available until 18 August, with discounted room rates for the executive rooms at the hotel available until then as well: https://inlg2023.github.io/

Note that event registration takes place through Eventbright and you will need to click 'print tickets' to download the PDF of the tickets to get info for the hotel discount.

If you can talk to your 5 year old kids about why their school needs 'active shooter drills', then you can talk to them about gender neutral toilets.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights #Trans #Pride

The #Caturday game on BS is pretty good, but I know we can fill the #fedi with a #megathread of #cats if we want to. I'll start!

Let's see if we can beat their so-called hellthreads with more than 65536 cat posts in a single thread.

Please help if you're in the mood for silly nonsense and feel free to ignore if you are not 💛

#PleaseBoost

Friendly reminder that submissions to #INLG2023 (premiere conference for work in natural language generation, in my yet to be humble opinion) are due by 22 May: https://inlg2023.github.io/calls.html

#NaturalLanguageGeneration #NLG #NLProc #TextGeneration #CFP

1990s web experience

- Open site in browser
- Watch framework of site gradually appear
- Start reading site text
- View images once they load
- Click a hyperlink to more information on the thing you're looking for

2020s web experience

- Open site in browser
- Wait for Cloudflare to verify you aren't a bot
- Wait for background movie to load
- Dismiss cookie popup
- Decline to subscribe to their mailing list
- Decline to speak to a chatbot that promises it's a human
- Scroll infinitely looking for the information you want that's probably not there since it's all generated text intended for other robots to read anyway