A skill your agent uses when revising an EMNLP draft for the venue's empirical voice — phenomenon-first framing, claims scoped to tested languages and domains, examples tied to counted errors, a…

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Emnlp Writing Style

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills emnlp-writing-style --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-writing-style .claude/skills/emnlp-writing-style && 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-writing-style
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
854 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when revising an EMNLP draft for the venue's empirical voice — phenomenon-first framing, claims scoped to tested languages and domains, examples tied to counted errors, a…

  • Revising an EMNLP draft for the venues empirical voice — phenomenon-first framing
  • SKILL.md covers The scoping discipline, Examples must be load-bearing, First-page architecture and Writing the Limitations section, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Claims scoped to tested languages and domains

What it does

Emnlp Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising an EMNLP draft for the venue's empirical voice — phenomenon-first framing, claims scoped to tested languages and domains, examples tied to counted errors, a Limitations section with content, honest hedging calibrated to evidence strength, and ACL two-column discipline for long and short formats.

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.

It sits in Writing & Content, covering Brand voice and tone. 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

  • Revising an EMNLP draft for the venues empirical voice — phenomenon-first framing
  • Claims scoped to tested languages and domains
  • Examples tied to counted errors
  • A Limitations section with content

Example prompts

  • “/emnlp-writing-style”

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 Writing Style loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 84 tokens; SKILL.md has 854 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~84
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

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). 854 words, ~1,732 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/emnlp-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
emnlp-writing-style
description
Use when revising an EMNLP draft for the venue's empirical voice — phenomenon-first framing, claims scoped to tested languages and domains, examples tied to counted errors, a Limitations section with content, honest hedging calibrated to evidence strength, and ACL two-column discipline for long and short formats.

EMNLP Writing Style

Use this during revision. EMNLP's house voice is that of a careful experimentalist: the paper reports what was measured, in prose that never outruns the tables. The most common style failure at this venue is not bad English — it is claim inflation, where the abstract promises "understanding" and the evidence delivers accuracy on four datasets.

The scoping discipline

Every empirical claim carries an implicit quantifier, and EMNLP reviewers expand it:

Draft sentenceWhat a reviewer hearsScoped rewrite
"LLMs cannot track negation"All LLMs, all negation, all languages"The three 7-13B models we test fail on double negation in English and German (Table 4)"
"Our method improves summarization"Everywhere, always"…improves faithfulness on news summarization in two of three datasets; gains do not transfer to dialogue (§6.3)"
"This is a multilingual benchmark"Typologically broad"…covering five Indo-European languages; we discuss this limit in §Limitations"
"significantly better"A statistical test exists"+1.8 F1, paired bootstrap p<0.01 over 5 seeds" — or delete "significantly"

The rewrites are not weaker papers; they are the same paper with its evidence and its prose in agreement — which is precisely what the soundness score measures.

Examples must be load-bearing

NLP papers live on examples, and EMNLP reviewers distinguish two uses sharply. Decorative: a cherry-picked output demonstrating the method at its best. Load-bearing: an example representing a counted category — "the model hedges the modal verb, an error type accounting for 34% of failures (Table 6, row 2)." Convert every decorative example to a load-bearing one or cut it; an example without a frequency is an anecdote, and the CFP-era reviewer culture treats anecdotes as filler.

First-page architecture

The opening should let a tired area chair reconstruct the paper: the phenomenon or task failure (with a number), why existing evaluation misses it, what you did, what you found, and where it breaks. Two structural rules follow. First, name the language behavior before the model: "summarizers delete speaker commitments" precedes any mention of architecture. Second, contribution bullets must be falsifiable — "we show X holds in Y setting but not Z" survives review; "we propose a novel framework" is unfalsifiable and reads as such.

Writing the Limitations section

The mandatory, uncounted Limitations section is the most misused free real estate in the format. Ritual limitations ("results may not generalize") waste it. Content limitations do reviewer-defusing work:

text
Weak:   "Our approach may not work for all languages."
Strong: "All six test languages are written in Latin or Hangul scripts with
        whitespace tokenization; our segmentation-dependent method has no
        evidence for Thai or Chinese. Annotator pool was US-based crowdworkers,
        so the politeness judgments encode one cultural frame (§5.4)."

The strong version names the boundary, the mechanism behind it, and where the paper already discusses it. Reviewers routinely check whether the Limitations section admits the weakness they independently found — matching it is credibility; missing it is a soundness deduction.

Hedging calibration

Empirical prose needs exactly one hedging level per claim, chosen by evidence:

  • Demonstrated on your data: indicative mood, no hedge — "the effect reverses on dialogue data."
  • Supported but unproven mechanism: "consistent with", "suggests" — once, not stacked.
  • Speculation: fence it explicitly ("we speculate…") or move it to future work.

Stacked hedges ("may potentially suggest") and false confidence ("proves") are equal and opposite failures; both misreport evidence strength.

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Titles and abstracts, venue idiom

EMNLP titles carry information, and the program is searched by task: name the phenomenon or task in the title, not just the system ("Pragmatic Drift in Multilingual Summarizers" beats "PoliteSumm: A Novel Framework for Better Summaries"). System names are fine as prefixes when the system is the release; they are dead weight when the finding is the contribution. In abstracts, the venue idiom is numbers early: the best EMNLP abstracts contain the headline measurement, the languages or datasets, and the significance posture — a reader should be able to referee the claim's scope from the abstract alone.

Terminology honesty

Two lexical habits mark careful empirical writing here:

  • "Understanding," "reasoning," "knows" — mentalistic verbs applied to models get flagged unless operationalized; prefer the measured behavior ("answers correctly under paraphrase") or define the construct once and stick to it.
  • "State-of-the-art" — a comparative claim against a moving population; if used, date it and bound it ("among open models under 13B evaluated on X as of May 2026"), or replace it with the actual comparison made.

Two-column craft, ACL flavor

  • Long papers get 8 content pages, short papers 4, references free, Limitations and ethics uncounted — design the argument for the cap instead of compressing at the end.
  • Wide comparison tables dominate NLP papers: prefer one decision-relevant table in the body and push completeness grids to the appendix, cross-referenced.
  • Non-Latin script examples need declared fonts and romanization plus gloss; an example the reviewer cannot read is an example that does not exist.
  • Short papers: one claim, stated in the first paragraph, with the strongest single table — a short paper that "surveys" its own contribution has already failed.

The revision pass, ordered

Run the passes separately — combined passes miss things: (1) claim-scope pass over every abstract and section-opening sentence; (2) example audit tying each excerpt to a counted category; (3) hedge calibration; (4) Limitations content check against the weaknesses you privately know; (5) format sweep for scripts, table widths, and the uncounted sections. The first pass matters most and is best done by the coauthor who did not run the experiments — attachment to results is what inflates their description.

Output format

text
[Voice diagnosis] scoped / inflated / over-hedged / anecdotal
[Claim-scope repairs] <sentence -> scoped rewrite>
[Example audit] <decorative examples -> counted category or cut>
[Limitations quality] ritual / content — with the missing admissions
[Format risks] <tables, scripts, page-cap pressure>

© 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-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Emnlp Writing Style

What does Emnlp Writing Style do?

A skill your agent uses when revising an EMNLP draft for the venue's empirical voice — phenomenon-first framing, claims scoped to tested languages and domains, examples tied to counted errors, a…. Emnlp Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising an EMNLP draft for the venue's empirical voice — phenomenon-first framing, claims scoped to tested languages and domains, examples tied to counted errors, a Limitations section with content, honest hedging calibrated to evidence strength, and ACL two-column discipline for long and short formats.

When should I use Emnlp Writing Style?

Emnlp Writing Style fits situations like: revising an EMNLP draft for the venues empirical voice — phenomenon-first framing; claims scoped to tested languages and domains; examples tied to counted errors; A Limitations section with content.

How do I install Emnlp Writing Style in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Emnlp Writing Style in Codex?

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

Can I use Emnlp Writing Style 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-writing-style -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-writing-style, .gemini/skills/emnlp-writing-style, .github/skills/emnlp-writing-style and .opencode/skills/emnlp-writing-style in your project.

What does Emnlp Writing Style need to run?

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

Does Emnlp Writing Style 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 Writing Style 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 Writing Style use?

Emnlp Writing Style 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 Writing Style use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.9k 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 Writing Style?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

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