Professor's Paper Count: 0 'Agent' Titles in 23 Years, 3 Already in 2026
mdredze · x · 2026-09-25
mdredze shares a wry stat from his own publication record: zero papers with "agent" in the title from 2003–2025, then three already in 2026 — a witty one-person data point on how explosively the agent hype cycle hit academia (#exponentialgrowth).
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