Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Natural Language Generation Evaluations

Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Natural Language Generation Evaluations Saad Mahamood editor David M Howcroft editor Kees van Deemter editor Simone Balloccu editor Adarsa Sivaprasad editor Barkavi Sundararajan editor Alberto Bugarín Diz editor Jose María Alonso-Moral editor 2026-06 Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, United Kingdom text conference publication 979-8-89176-436-1 retroeval-2026-main https://aclanthology.org/2026.retroeval-main.0/ Decomposition Does Not Help: Evidence from Semantic Clustering in LLM-based Causal Graph Discovery Nikolay Babakov author Alberto Bugarín-Diz author 2026-06 text Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Natural Language Generation Evaluations Saad Mahamood editor David M Howcroft editor Kees van Deemter editor Simone Balloccu editor Adarsa Sivaprasad editor Barkavi Sundararajan editor Alberto Bugarín Diz editor Jose María Alonso-Moral editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, United Kingdom conference publication 979-8-89176-436-1 babakov-bugarin-diz-2026-decomposition https://aclanthology.org/2026.retroeval-main.1/ 2026-06 1 7 NLG Evaluation: Past, Present, Future Ehud Reiter author 2026-06 text Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Natural Language Generation Evaluations Saad Mahamood editor David M Howcroft editor Kees van Deemter editor Simone Balloccu editor Adarsa Sivaprasad editor Barkavi Sundararajan editor Alberto Bugarín Diz editor Jose María Alonso-Moral editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, United Kingdom conference publication 979-8-89176-436-1 reiter-2026-nlg https://aclanthology.org/2026.retroeval-main.2/ 2026-06 8 15 Evaluation and Assessment as Complementary Frameworks Elie Antoine author 2026-06 text Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Natural Language Generation Evaluations Saad Mahamood editor David M Howcroft editor Kees van Deemter editor Simone Balloccu editor Adarsa Sivaprasad editor Barkavi Sundararajan editor Alberto Bugarín Diz editor Jose María Alonso-Moral editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, United Kingdom conference publication 979-8-89176-436-1 antoine-2026-evaluation https://aclanthology.org/2026.retroeval-main.3/ 2026-06 16 23 The Arabic Bible as an Evaluation Tool: The Case Study of the Khalīlī Arabic Dialect Jakub Zbrzeżny author Ehud Reiter author Wei Zhao author 2026-06 text Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Natural Language Generation Evaluations Saad Mahamood editor David M Howcroft editor Kees van Deemter editor Simone Balloccu editor Adarsa Sivaprasad editor Barkavi Sundararajan editor Alberto Bugarín Diz editor Jose María Alonso-Moral editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, United Kingdom conference publication 979-8-89176-436-1 zbrze-z-ny-etal-2026-arabic https://aclanthology.org/2026.retroeval-main.4/ 2026-06 24 32 RAG as a collapsed NLG pipeline Adarsa Sivaprasad author Barkavi Sundararajan author David M Howcroft author 2026-06 text Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Natural Language Generation Evaluations Saad Mahamood editor David M Howcroft editor Kees van Deemter editor Simone Balloccu editor Adarsa Sivaprasad editor Barkavi Sundararajan editor Alberto Bugarín Diz editor Jose María Alonso-Moral editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, United Kingdom conference publication 979-8-89176-436-1 sivaprasad-etal-2026-rag https://aclanthology.org/2026.retroeval-main.5/ 2026-06 33 38 A Comparative Evaluation of End-to-End and Pipeline Approaches for Summarisation Fahime Same author Saad Mahamood author Srinivas Ramesh Kamath author 2026-06 text Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Natural Language Generation Evaluations Saad Mahamood editor David M Howcroft editor Kees van Deemter editor Simone Balloccu editor Adarsa Sivaprasad editor Barkavi Sundararajan editor Alberto Bugarín Diz editor Jose María Alonso-Moral editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, United Kingdom conference publication 979-8-89176-436-1 same-etal-2026-comparative https://aclanthology.org/2026.retroeval-main.6/ 2026-06 39 52 Solving the Task but Not the Problem: A Customer Support Case Study on Why Extrinsic Evaluation Matters Daniel Braun author 2026-06 text Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Natural Language Generation Evaluations Saad Mahamood editor David M Howcroft editor Kees van Deemter editor Simone Balloccu editor Adarsa Sivaprasad editor Barkavi Sundararajan editor Alberto Bugarín Diz editor Jose María Alonso-Moral editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, United Kingdom conference publication 979-8-89176-436-1 braun-2026-solving https://aclanthology.org/2026.retroeval-main.7/ 2026-06 53 62 Never Truly Out of Fashion: A Retrospective Look at Evaluation in NLG Patrícia Schmidtová author Saad Mahamood author Ondřej Dušek author 2026-06 text Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Natural Language Generation Evaluations Saad Mahamood editor David M Howcroft editor Kees van Deemter editor Simone Balloccu editor Adarsa Sivaprasad editor Barkavi Sundararajan editor Alberto Bugarín Diz editor Jose María Alonso-Moral editor Association for Computational Linguistics Aberdeen, United Kingdom conference publication 979-8-89176-436-1 schmidtova-etal-2026-never https://aclanthology.org/2026.retroeval-main.8/ 2026-06 63 72