Reflections and Takeaways from the 1st YNLG Workshop

Patricia Schmidtova, Nils Feldhus, Adarsa Sivaprasad, Alyssa Allen, Eduardo Calò, Rudali Huidrom, Michela Lorandi


Abstract
The inaugural YNLG workshop served as a platform for community building and knowledge transfer among early-career researchers. This document synthesizes the core insights from the workshop and presents a comprehensive summary of advice from the Program Committee on navigating research methodology, publishing, and mental health. Furthermore, it highlights key takeaways from a panel of experts on mentorship, the evolving landscape of academia versus industry, and the future challenges of evaluation in NLG.
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2025.ynlg-main.1
Volume:
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop for Young Researchers in Natural Language Generation
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October
Year:
2025
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Hanoi, Vietnam
Editors:
Alyssa Allen, Nils Feldhus, Rudali Huidrom, Michela Lorandi, Adarsa Sivaprasad, Patrícia Schmidtová
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YNLG
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SIGGEN
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1–6
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Patricia Schmidtova, Nils Feldhus, Adarsa Sivaprasad, Alyssa Allen, Eduardo Calò, Rudali Huidrom, and Michela Lorandi. 2025. Reflections and Takeaways from the 1st YNLG Workshop. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop for Young Researchers in Natural Language Generation, pages 1–6, Hanoi, Vietnam. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Reflections and Takeaways from the 1st YNLG Workshop (Schmidtova et al., YNLG 2025)
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