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# Symposium on Natural Language Generation Evaluations 2026 — accepted papers

Symposium on Natural Language Generation Evaluations 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Symposium on Natural Language Generation Evaluations, held in Aberdeen, United Kingdom, June 2026 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 8 papers of it; our library holds 3 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Aberdeen, [United Kingdom](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-kingdom/) · 🗓 June 2026

[**8** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**3** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/retroeval/2026/#works) · [**0** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/retroeval/2026/#works)

## All accepted papers (8)

The most cited first; 3 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Comparative Evaluation of End-to-End and Pipeline Approaches for Summarisation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.retroeval-main.6/)**Fahime Same, Saad Mahamood, Srinivas Ramesh Kamath
2. **[Decomposition Does Not Help: Evidence from Semantic Clustering in LLM-based Causal Graph Discovery ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.retroeval-main.1/)**Nikolay Babakov, Alberto Bugarín-Diz
3. **[Evaluation and Assessment as Complementary Frameworks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.retroeval-main.3/)**Elie Antoine
4. **[NLG Evaluation: Past, Present, Future](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/reiter-2026-nlg-evaluation-past-present-future/)**Ehud Reiter*our summary*
5. **[Never Truly Out of Fashion: A Retrospective Look at Evaluation in NLG](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schmidtova-2026-never-truly-out-fashion-retrospective/)**Patrícia Schmidtová, Saad Mahamood, Ondřej Dušek*our summary*
6. **[RAG as a collapsed NLG pipeline](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sivaprasad-2026-rag-as-collapsed-nlg-pipeline/)**Adarsa Sivaprasad, Barkavi Sundararajan, David M. Howcroft*our summary*
7. **[Solving the Task but Not the Problem: A Customer Support Case Study on Why Extrinsic Evaluation Matters ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.retroeval-main.7/)**Daniel Braun
8. **[The Arabic Bible as an Evaluation Tool: The Case Study of the Khalīlī Arabic Dialect ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.retroeval-main.4/)**Jakub Zbrzeżny, Ehud Reiter, Wei Zhao

## Papers with our summary in our library (3)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. **[NLG Evaluation: Past, Present, Future](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/reiter-2026-nlg-evaluation-past-present-future/) [Symposium on Natural Language Generation Evaluations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/retroeval/)**Ehud Reiter*2026*
2. **[Never Truly Out of Fashion: A Retrospective Look at Evaluation in NLG](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schmidtova-2026-never-truly-out-fashion-retrospective/) [Symposium on Natural Language Generation Evaluations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/retroeval/)**Patrícia Schmidtová, Saad Mahamood, Ondřej Dušek*2026*
3. **[RAG as a collapsed NLG pipeline](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sivaprasad-2026-rag-as-collapsed-nlg-pipeline/) [Symposium on Natural Language Generation Evaluations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/retroeval/)**Adarsa Sivaprasad, Barkavi Sundararajan, David M. Howcroft*2026*

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Text generation (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/)

## Fields

[Computer Science (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/)

## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**David M. Howcroft**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-m-howcroft/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ehud Reiter**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ehud-reiter/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ondřej Dušek**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ondrej-dusek/) · [🧑‍🔬**Patrícia Schmidtová**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/patricia-schmidtova/) · [🧑‍🔬**Saad Mahamood**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saad-mahamood/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🎓**University of Aberdeen** Aberdeen · United Kingdom 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-aberdeen/)

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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