A skill your agent uses when designing or auditing the experimental program of an EMNLP paper — baseline fairness and tuning budgets, dataset and language coverage matched to claims, contamination…

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Install Emnlp Experiments

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill emnlp-experiments -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills emnlp-experiments --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/EMNLP-Skills/skills/emnlp-experiments .claude/skills/emnlp-experiments && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
emnlp-experiments
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
762 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when designing or auditing the experimental program of an EMNLP paper — baseline fairness and tuning budgets, dataset and language coverage matched to claims, contamination…

  • Works in 5 steps: Baseline fairness. Did the comparison… → Coverage-claim match. Do the datasets,… → Contamination. Could the pretrained or… → …
  • Auditing the experimental program of an EMNLP paper — baseline fairness and tuning budgets
  • SKILL.md covers The five probes reviewers run, Reporting floor by evidence type, Contamination audit, concretely and Statistical practice that…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Emnlp Experiments is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when designing or auditing the experimental program of an EMNLP paper — baseline fairness and tuning budgets, dataset and language coverage matched to claims, contamination audits for pretrained and API models, significance testing and seed variance, human evaluation protocols, prompt sensitivity, and the error analysis EMNLP reviewers expect.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.7k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Auditing the experimental program of an EMNLP paper — baseline fairness and tuning budgets
  • Dataset and language coverage matched to claims
  • Contamination audits for pretrained and API models
  • Significance testing and seed variance

Example prompts

  • “/emnlp-experiments”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Baseline fairness. Did the comparison systems get the same tuning budget, data,
  2. Coverage-claim match. Do the datasets, domains, and languages span the claim?
  3. Contamination. Could the pretrained or API model have seen the test data? For
  4. Variance. Is the improvement larger than run-to-run noise? Single-run deltas of
  5. Mechanism. Does any experiment isolate why the method works, or only that it

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Emnlp Experiments loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 92 tokens; SKILL.md has 762 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~92
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.7k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

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The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 762 words, ~1,653 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/emnlp-experiments/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
emnlp-experiments
description
Use when designing or auditing the experimental program of an EMNLP paper — baseline fairness and tuning budgets, dataset and language coverage matched to claims, contamination audits for pretrained and API models, significance testing and seed variance, human evaluation protocols, prompt sensitivity, and the error analysis EMNLP reviewers expect.

EMNLP Experiments

Use this while the experimental grid is still cheap to change. EMNLP's reviewing culture was partly built by papers criticizing NLP's own evaluation habits, so the venue audits experiments the way a security reviewer audits inputs: assume the design will be probed for the easiest way to make the headline number lie.

The five probes reviewers run

  1. Baseline fairness. Did the comparison systems get the same tuning budget, data, and prompt engineering effort as yours? A win over an under-tuned baseline is the most common EMNLP soundness objection.
  2. Coverage-claim match. Do the datasets, domains, and languages span the claim? English-only evidence supports English-only sentences.
  3. Contamination. Could the pretrained or API model have seen the test data? For post-2020 NLP this is a default suspicion, not an exotic one.
  4. Variance. Is the improvement larger than run-to-run noise? Single-run deltas of under a point convince no one here.
  5. Mechanism. Does any experiment isolate why the method works, or only that it does? Ablations that remove the claimed ingredient are the minimum.

Design the grid so each probe has a prepared answer, and say where in the paper each answer lives.

Reporting floor by evidence type

Evidence typeMinimum reporting at EMNLPSilent failure it prevents
Fine-tuned modelsseeds, variance, selection criterion, budgetbest-of-N passed off as typical
API/LLM resultsmodel ID + query dates, decoding params, exact promptsunreproducible moving-target claims
Human evaluationannotator count, guidelines, agreement, pay, samplingvibes formatted as a table
Dataset creationcollection method, license, agreement, splitsbenchmark nobody can audit
Significancetest name, units of analysis, correction for multiple comparisonsp-hacking by metric shopping

Contamination audit, concretely

For every evaluation set: record its release date against the model's training cutoff; run n-gram or substring overlap between test instances and any accessible pretraining or fine-tuning corpora; where training data is closed (API models), state that directly and, when feasible, add a post-cutoff or perturbed test slice. Report the audit even when it finds nothing — "we checked" is evidence; silence is a reviewer question you chose to receive in July instead of answering in May.

Statistical practice that survives review

  • Test at the right unit: sentence-level metrics on the same documents are not independent samples; use paired tests over documents or systems-by-item designs.
  • Paired bootstrap or approximate randomization are the community's defaults for system comparison; report the number of resamples.
  • Multiple metrics × multiple datasets × multiple models is a multiple-comparisons machine — state how many comparisons the paper makes and correct or temper claims accordingly.
  • Power matters in the negative direction too: a "no difference" claim from 200 test items is an underpowered shrug, not a negative result.

Prompt sensitivity is an ablation, not an afterthought

Any result mediated by prompts inherits their variance. The minimum grid:

text
For each headline LLM result:
  - k ≥ 3 semantically equivalent prompt paraphrases  -> report mean ± spread
  - few-shot exemplar reshuffles (if applicable)      -> report order sensitivity
  - decoding: fixed and disclosed (temp, top_p)        -> no silent temperature 0.8
  - exact prompt text                                  -> appendix, verbatim
If the ranking of systems flips across paraphrases, the paper's claim is about
prompts, not systems — and the paper must say so.
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Error analysis as an experiment

EMNLP error analysis is a designed study, not a paragraph: sample failures under a documented scheme (random within strata beats hand-picked), define error categories with two annotators and report agreement on the categorization itself, then connect categories to mechanism — which category does the proposed component reduce, and which does it leave untouched? A good error analysis generates follow-up experiments; a decorative one generates adjectives.

Human evaluation, designed like an experiment

When automatic metrics cannot measure the construct (adequacy, coherence, harm), the human study inherits the full burden of experimental design, and EMNLP reviewers grade it as one:

  • Define the judgment as a question annotators could disagree about meaningfully — then measure that disagreement (report the agreement statistic and what level you consider acceptable for this construct, since chance-corrected agreement on skewed labels behaves badly).
  • Sample instances for rating by a documented rule; rating each system's outputs on different items is a design error, not a shortcut.
  • Blind raters to system identity and randomize presentation order; order effects in side-by-side preference ratings are large and well known.
  • Report rater recruitment, training, compensation, and count — the Responsible NLP checklist requires it, and reviewers cross-check the two.
  • Analyze ratings with models matching their structure (ordinal, per-rater variance), or at minimum report per-item aggregation rules; averaging Likert scales across raters and items without comment is the field's most tolerated bad habit, and its tolerance is expiring.

Grid economics under a deadline

When compute or time forces cuts, cut in this order: extra datasets confirming an already-shown effect first; extra model scales second; never cut the seeds/variance runs or the contamination audit — they are cheap relative to the review risk they retire. A smaller grid with variance beats a wider grid of single runs at this venue, every time.

Output format

text
[Probe readiness] <fairness / coverage / contamination / variance / mechanism: ready or gap>
[Reporting-floor gaps] <evidence type -> missing item>
[Statistical plan] <test, unit, corrections, power posture>
[Prompt-sensitivity status] <done / needed / not applicable>
[Error-analysis design] <sampling, categories, agreement, mechanism link>

© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in EMNLP-Skills/skills/emnlp-experiments of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Emnlp Experiments

What does Emnlp Experiments do?

A skill your agent uses when designing or auditing the experimental program of an EMNLP paper — baseline fairness and tuning budgets, dataset and language coverage matched to claims, contamination…. Emnlp Experiments is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when designing or auditing the experimental program of an EMNLP paper — baseline fairness and tuning budgets, dataset and language coverage matched to claims, contamination audits for pretrained and API models, significance testing and seed variance, human evaluation protocols, prompt sensitivity, and the error analysis EMNLP reviewers expect.

When should I use Emnlp Experiments?

Emnlp Experiments fits situations like: auditing the experimental program of an EMNLP paper — baseline fairness and tuning budgets; dataset and language coverage matched to claims; contamination audits for pretrained and API models; significance testing and seed variance.

How do I install Emnlp Experiments in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill emnlp-experiments -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (EMNLP-Skills/skills/emnlp-experiments in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/emnlp-experiments in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Emnlp Experiments in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill emnlp-experiments -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (EMNLP-Skills/skills/emnlp-experiments in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/emnlp-experiments in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Emnlp Experiments in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill emnlp-experiments -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/emnlp-experiments, .gemini/skills/emnlp-experiments, .github/skills/emnlp-experiments and .opencode/skills/emnlp-experiments in your project.

What does Emnlp Experiments need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Emnlp Experiments is instructions for the agent only.

Does Emnlp Experiments access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Emnlp Experiments safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Emnlp Experiments use?

Emnlp Experiments is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Emnlp Experiments use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Emnlp Experiments?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,228 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

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