Symposium on Natural Language Generation Evaluations

Symposium on Natural Language Generation Evaluations

News

• 4th of February, 2026: The official RetroEval 2026 website is now online!

Background

Evaluation in the field of Natural Language Generation (NLG) has changed considerably over the past several decades. This special symposium in honour of Prof. Ehud Reiter’s retirement provides a forum for academic and industry researchers to look back on the topic of how evaluations in the field of NLG have changed and to explore unaddressed challenges. The two day symposium will be held in-person at the Sir Duncan Rice Library in the historic University of Aberdeen, June 1-2, 2026. For this symposium, we welcome submissions of long papers, short papers, and extended abstracts.

Important dates

Note: All deadlines are 23:59 UTC-12.

• First call for papers: 06 February, 2026
• ARR commitment deadline (archival): 16 March, 2026
• Direct paper submission deadline (archival): 24 April, 2026
• Notification of acceptance: 8 May, 2026
• Camera-ready: 22 May, 2026
• Symposium dates: 1-2 June, 2026. Aberdeen, United Kingdom.

Symposium Organizers

Saad Mahamood

Shopware

David Howcroft

University of Aberdeen

Kees van Deemter

Utrecht University

Albert Gatt

Utrecht University

Simone Balloccu

TU Darmstadt

Margaret Mitchell

Hugging Face

Alberto Bugarín Diz

CiTIUS, University of Santiago de Compostela

Jose María Alonso-Moral

CiTIUS, University of Santiago de Compostela

Adarsa Sivaprasad

University of Aberdeen

Barkavi Sundararajan

University of Aberdeen

Chenghua Lin

Manchester University

Alexandra Johnstone

University of Aberdeen