David Jurgens

Associate prof at @UMich in SI and CSE working in computational social science and natural language processing. PI of the Blablablab blablablab.si.umich.edu

Articles & links

I'm at #ACL2026 right now and looking forward to seeing all the cool work. But a lot of NLP is also being published at other venues like NeurIPS/ICLR/COLM/etc. I was wondering to what extent researchers are shifting where they publish in the post-LLM era, so I measured it. arx…

[2607.02416] The Future of NLP may not be at NLP Conferences: Scholarly Migration Patterns in Natural Language Processing arxiv.org
AI Weekly's analysis
  • In the post-LLM era, established NLP authors lost 19.2pp of share at flagship *ACL main-conference tracks while gaining 14.8pp in Findings tracks.
  • General ML venues rose 8.6pp among established authors, even after adjusting for parallel growth across both fields.
  • Among debut authors with three or more first-author NLP papers, those mostly at *ACL fell from 84% in 2019 to 74% in 2024.
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Recent commentary

I'm on a new committee reviewing ARR's Responsible NLP Checklist and looking to potentially make changes. I'd love to hear others' thoughts on what is working well or needs revised, especially given it might be fresh in memory from the recent ARR cycle. 1/

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