The Big Picture of AI Research

More papers on AI are published than ever before1 but each paper tends to only present its part of the picture—and it becomes difficult to recognize the larger story to which a paper is connected. To encourage the community to explore broader research narratives, we2 co-organized the Big Picture Workshop at EMNLP 2023.3 We received a number of high-quality submissions that distill important research topics, from narrative understanding to modern generation techniques.My favorite part of the work...