The 'respect language' NLP conference culture is gone — they just don't go to COLM
tallinzen · x · 2026-10-11
Replying to Andrew Ng's observation, tallinzen jokes that the old-school "are you a real NLP person who respects language" attitude has vanished from NLP conferences — those people still exist, they just don't attend COLM anymore. A lighthearted note on how the LLM era has displaced traditional linguistics culture in academia.
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