A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project belongs at EMNLP, weighing its empirical-NLP identity against ACL, NAACL, EACL, AACL, CoNLL, LREC-COLING, TACL, and ML venues, matching the…

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Install Emnlp Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills emnlp-topic-selection --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-topic-selection .claude/skills/emnlp-topic-selection && 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-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
827 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project belongs at EMNLP, weighing its empirical-NLP identity against ACL, NAACL, EACL, AACL, CoNLL, LREC-COLING, TACL, and ML venues, matching the…

  • Works in 3 steps: Is there a language phenomenon or task… → Does the evidence plan include analysis,… → Would the paper survive its own…
  • Deciding whether a project belongs at EMNLP
  • SKILL.md covers The empirical-identity test, Welcomed contribution types, Routing among the siblings and One project, three honest…, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Emnlp Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a project belongs at EMNLP, weighing its empirical-NLP identity against ACL, NAACL, EACL, AACL, CoNLL, LREC-COLING, TACL, and ML venues, matching the contribution to EMNLP's welcomed paper types including negative results and reproductions, and choosing between main conference, Findings, industry, and demo pipelines.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.8k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in AI & LLM Engineering, covering Natural language processing. 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

  • Deciding whether a project belongs at EMNLP
  • Weighing its empirical-NLP identity against ACL
  • Matching the contribution to EMNLPs welcomed paper types including negative results and reproductions
  • Choosing between main conference

Example prompts

  • “/emnlp-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Is there a language phenomenon or task behavior at the center? EMNLP papers are
  2. Does the evidence plan include analysis, not just scores? The venue's reviewing
  3. Would the paper survive its own evaluation section being adversarial? Benchmarks

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 Topic Selection loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 92 tokens; SKILL.md has 827 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
~1.8k

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

Auto-check passed

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). 827 words, ~1,836 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/emnlp-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
emnlp-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a project belongs at EMNLP, weighing its empirical-NLP identity against ACL, NAACL, EACL, AACL, CoNLL, LREC-COLING, TACL, and ML venues, matching the contribution to EMNLP's welcomed paper types including negative results and reproductions, and choosing between main conference, Findings, industry, and demo pipelines.

EMNLP Topic Selection

Use this before writing. EMNLP's name is its thesis: empirical methods. The venue's center of gravity is work whose contribution is established by measurement — new evaluations, datasets, analyses of model behavior, and methods whose value is demonstrated rather than argued. Sibling venues share the reviewer pool through ARR, so the routing question is less "will it be reviewed differently" than "which program will want it."

The empirical-identity test

Ask three questions of the project:

  1. Is there a language phenomenon or task behavior at the center? EMNLP papers are about something a system does with language, not about an architecture that happens to be evaluated on text.
  2. Does the evidence plan include analysis, not just scores? The venue's reviewing culture expects error analysis, ablations that isolate the mechanism, and claims scoped to the languages and domains actually tested.
  3. Would the paper survive its own evaluation section being adversarial? Benchmarks chosen to flatter, contaminated test sets, and single-run comparisons are the fingerprints reviewers here are trained to find.

Three yeses: EMNLP-shaped. A no on (1) suggests an ML venue; a no on (2) or (3) is a project problem no venue choice fixes.

Welcomed contribution types

The 2026 call is unusually explicit that a diverse program is a goal. These genres are all first-class, and mislabeling yours is a self-inflicted wound:

GenreWhat convinces hereCommon self-sabotage
Empirical methodControlled comparisons + mechanism ablationsSelling a small delta as a paradigm
Resource / datasetDocumented collection, agreement stats, human ceilingSize without characterization
Negative resultRigorous design that would have detected the effectUnderpowered study dressed as disproof
ReproductionFaithful reimplementation, divergences explainedGotcha framing instead of diagnosis
SurveyOrganizing insight the field lackedAnnotated bibliography
PositionFalsifiable stakes, engagement with counterevidenceOpinion without an empirical anchor
Linguistic insightExisting methods revealing something about languageInsight about the model misread as insight about language

Routing among the siblings

  • ACL / NAACL / EACL / AACL — scope overlap with EMNLP is near-total; in the ARR era the practical differences are calendar, location, and program-committee taste. If your paper's strength is analytical and evaluative rather than conceptual framing, EMNLP's program has historically been the natural home.
  • CoNLL — computational learning of language, cognitive and linguistic modeling angle; a better fit when the object of study is the learning process itself.
  • LREC-COLING lineage — resource-centric work whose contribution is the artifact and its documentation more than a finding built on it.
  • TACL / Computational Linguistics — journal pacing, revision cycles, no page fight; right when the work needs 20 pages or authoritative permanence more than a fall deadline.
  • ML venues (NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR) — the contribution is the learning method and language is one testbed among several; EMNLP reviewers will ask "what did we learn about language?" and dislike silence.
  • EMNLP Industry Track — deployed systems under production constraints (latency, cost, drift, no clean test sets); direct submission, its own deadline (June 16, 2026), its own reviewers. Demo track — working systems worth showing; verify the 2026 demo call before planning on it (dates were unposted at check time).
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One project, three honest pitches

text
Project: retrieval-augmented QA fails on temporally-shifted questions.

EMNLP main pitch:   "We characterize *when* and *why* RAG answers decay with temporal
                     shift (4 datasets, 3 retrieval stacks), and show index-refresh
                     policies fix only the retrieval half of the failure."
ML-venue pitch:     "A new time-conditioned retrieval scoring function with gains on
                     one QA benchmark."  (EMNLP would ask for the analysis above.)
Industry pitch:     "Operating a news QA system through 12 months of index drift:
                     what broke, what monitoring caught it, what it cost."
Pick the pitch whose evidence you actually have — not the venue with the next deadline.

Timing as a fit dimension

Venue choice at an ARR conference is also a calendar choice, and the calendar can overrule taste. Questions to settle before committing the project to EMNLP:

  • Will the evidence be complete by the aligned ARR deadline (May 25 in 2026)? A dataset whose annotation finishes in June fits the next cycle and therefore a different conference — submitting the incomplete version to make the EMNLP date is how sound projects earn reject-shaped reviews.
  • Does anyone on the paper need the proceedings date rather than the acceptance date? Findings and main papers publish on the same conference schedule; a graduation or visa timeline that needs certainty in early summer is arguing for an earlier cycle, whatever venue it feeds.
  • Is the topic volatile? In fast-moving subfields (LLM evaluation especially), a paper reviewed in June and presented in late October will be read against an October literature; build the response-window and camera-ready plan expecting "how does this relate to <July preprint>?" questions.

Findings in the fit calculus

Committing to EMNLP offers two acceptance surfaces: the main conference and Findings of EMNLP — real, Anthology-indexed peer-reviewed publication, historically without a guaranteed talk or poster. If the project's purpose requires a stage (job market, community-building around a resource), plan for the possibility that a sound-but-not- exciting verdict lands in Findings, and decide in advance whether that outcome ends the project or triggers a revise-and-resubmit instead.

The re-route that saves a cycle

If the empirical-identity test half-fails — real phenomenon, thin analysis — the cheapest repair is usually not a venue change but an evidence change: adding the error taxonomy, the contamination audit, and one deliberate stress test often converts an "ML paper evaluated on text" into an EMNLP paper in four weeks of work. Change venues when the audience is wrong; change the evidence when the audience is right but the paper isn't speaking its language yet.

Output format

text
[Fit verdict] EMNLP-shaped / sibling-better / ML-venue-better / journal-better
[Genre] method / resource / negative / reproduction / survey / position / insight
[Empirical identity] <the phenomenon or behavior at the center, one sentence>
[Weakest fit signal] <which of the three test questions is shakiest>
[Pipeline] main via ARR / industry / demo / next-cycle target

© 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-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Emnlp Topic Selection

What does Emnlp Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project belongs at EMNLP, weighing its empirical-NLP identity against ACL, NAACL, EACL, AACL, CoNLL, LREC-COLING, TACL, and ML venues, matching the…. Emnlp Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a project belongs at EMNLP, weighing its empirical-NLP identity against ACL, NAACL, EACL, AACL, CoNLL, LREC-COLING, TACL, and ML venues, matching the contribution to EMNLP's welcomed paper types including negative results and reproductions, and choosing between main conference, Findings, industry, and demo pipelines.

When should I use Emnlp Topic Selection?

Emnlp Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a project belongs at EMNLP; weighing its empirical-NLP identity against ACL; matching the contribution to EMNLPs welcomed paper types including negative results and reproductions; choosing between main conference.

How do I install Emnlp Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Emnlp Topic Selection in Codex?

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

Can I use Emnlp Topic Selection 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-topic-selection -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-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/emnlp-topic-selection, .github/skills/emnlp-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/emnlp-topic-selection in your project.

What does Emnlp Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Emnlp Topic Selection 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 Topic Selection 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 Topic Selection use?

Emnlp Topic Selection 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 Topic Selection use?

About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.3k 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 Topic Selection?

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