The "Real NLP Person Who Respects Language" Gatekeeping Is Fading Away
airkatakana · x · 2026-10-11
Andrew G. Wilson observed that a once-common attitude at NLP conferences — "are you a real NLP person who respects language" — has largely disappeared. airkatakana replies that ACL/EMNLP and similar venues still exhibit traces of it. The exchange reflects the decline of linguistic purism's gatekeeping power in the LLM era.
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