A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project should target NAACL rather than ACL, EMNLP, EACL, AACL, LREC-COLING, TACL, or an ML venue — weighing the chapter's Nations-of-the-Americas…

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Install Naacl Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills naacl-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/NAACL-Skills/skills/naacl-topic-selection .claude/skills/naacl-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
naacl-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
709 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 should target NAACL rather than ACL, EMNLP, EACL, AACL, LREC-COLING, TACL, or an ML venue — weighing the chapter's Nations-of-the-Americas…

  • Works in 3 steps: Timing: which ARR cycle would this… → Audience: name five groups you want… → Theme leverage: does the current…
  • Deciding whether a project should target NAACL rather than ACL
  • SKILL.md covers What the NAACL room is, Routing among near-identical…, The three-question fit test and Two routing vignettes, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Naacl Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a project should target NAACL rather than ACL, EMNLP, EACL, AACL, LREC-COLING, TACL, or an ML venue — weighing the chapter's Nations-of-the-Americas identity, theme tracks, timing across skipped years, and whether the paper's audience actually convenes at this conference.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k 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

  • Deciding whether a project should target NAACL rather than ACL
  • An ML venue — weighing the chapters Nations-of-the-Americas identity
  • Timing across skipped years
  • Whether the papers audience actually convenes at this conference

Example prompts

  • “/naacl-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Timing: which ARR cycle would this enter, and does a NAACL
  2. Audience: name five groups you want reading this paper. Do they
  3. Theme leverage: does the current edition's theme track (they change

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

Naacl Topic Selection loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 80 tokens; SKILL.md has 709 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~80
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k

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). 709 words, ~1,495 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/naacl-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
naacl-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a project should target NAACL rather than ACL, EMNLP, EACL, AACL, LREC-COLING, TACL, or an ML venue — weighing the chapter's Nations-of-the-Americas identity, theme tracks, timing across skipped years, and whether the paper's audience actually convenes at this conference.

NAACL Topic Selection

Every venue in the *ACL family reviews through the same ARR machinery, at the same rigor, with heavily overlapping reviewer pools. So "is this good enough for NAACL?" is usually the wrong question. The right ones: does the NAACL calendar fit this project's timing, and is the room that gathers at NAACL the room this paper wants. This skill decides both before a word is written.

What the NAACL room is

Since the 2024 renaming — an all-member vote (September 2024) changed "North American" to "Nations of the Americas" — the chapter's stated identity spans the hemisphere. That identity shows up materially, not just nominally: NAACL 2024 in Mexico City ran a "Languages of Latin America" theme track, NAACL 2025 ran "NLP in a Multicultural World," and workshops like AmericasNLP (Indigenous languages of the Americas) co-locate here. None of this narrows scope — general NLP work is the bulk of every program — but it defines what this venue's audience uniquely rewards:

  • work on Spanish, Portuguese, French/Creoles, and Indigenous languages of the Americas, especially with community involvement;
  • dialectal, code-switching, and migration-linked language phenomena of the hemisphere;
  • multicultural and cross-variety evaluation methodology;
  • plus the full breadth of general NLP that any *ACL flagship takes.

Routing among near-identical siblings

SituationBetter targetReasoning
Reviews will be ready when a NAACL commitment window is openNAACLTiming is the first-order variable in this family
No NAACL edition in the next ~12 months (skipped year)ACL / EMNLP / EACL / AACLReviews age; commit them somewhere real
Corpus/resource paper where the artifact is the contributionLREC-COLINGResource-first reviewing culture
Result needs >8 content pages of argumentTACLJournal format, *ACL audience, presentation slot at a conference
Contribution is a modeling/optimization advance, language incidentalML venue (NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR)The delta is judged against ML lineage, not NLP lineage
Americas-language work, early stage or nicheAmericasNLP or another co-located workshopRight audience, faster feedback, non-archival options
Paper speaks to hemisphere-specific phenomena or communitiesNAACL over equal-timing siblingsThe one case where venue identity outranks timing

The three-question fit test

  1. Timing: which ARR cycle would this enter, and does a NAACL commitment window plausibly follow it? (If the next edition is unannounced, this answer is "unknown" — plan per naacl-workflow.)
  2. Audience: name five groups you want reading this paper. Do they attend NAACL specifically — or would any *ACL flagship reach them?
  3. Theme leverage: does the current edition's theme track (they change every edition; verify the live CFP) give this paper a lane where it competes on its actual strengths?
text
Decision rule of thumb:
  timing_fits && (audience_specific || theme_fits)  -> NAACL
  timing_fits && generic *ACL audience              -> NAACL ok,
                                     siblings equally fine — pick by date
  !timing_fits                                      -> nearest sibling now;
                                     NAACL next time it exists
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Two routing vignettes

Vignette A. A lab finishes a strong instruction-tuning analysis in June of a skipped year. Audience: general NLP. Timing: the next NAACL is ten-plus months out and unannounced; an EMNLP-feeding cycle closes in weeks. Routing: the sibling venue, without sentiment — question two showed nothing NAACL-specific about the audience, so waiting buys nothing and costs baseline freshness.

Vignette B. A collaboration with a Paraguayan university has built the first treebank for a Guaraní variety, with community annotators. Audience: exactly the researchers, community members, and workshop ecosystem that convene at NAACL and AmericasNLP. Routing: hold for the NAACL window even at some cost in timing; also weigh LREC-COLING (resource-first reviewing) and decide by whether the paper's core is the resource or the analysis the resource enables. This is the identity-outranks-timing case, and it is rarer than teams think.

Shaping the project once NAACL is chosen

  • If the work touches any language of the Americas, invest early in native data and community contact — the exact dimensions this audience probes.
  • Build per-language and per-variety reporting into the experimental design from day one rather than retrofitting it.
  • Draft the contribution sentence with explicit language scope; if that sentence sounds thin, the issue is the evidence plan, not the venue.
  • Check the edition's tracks (industry, demos, student research) — a paper straining to be a main-conference long paper is sometimes a strong track paper.

Anti-patterns

  • Choosing NAACL for prestige-ranking reasons: within this family the tiers are a fiction; the programs differ by region and season, not bar.
  • Sitting on finished work for a year "for NAACL" while its baselines rot.
  • Framing a translated-benchmark study as an Americas-languages paper; the audience that rewards the frame is the audience that detects the shortcut.

Output format

text
[Fit verdict] NAACL / sibling (which) / workshop / journal / ML venue
[Timing check] <cycle -> commitment window status>
[Audience check] <who convenes here that this paper needs>
[Theme leverage] <current theme track fit, if verified>
[Project shaping] <two concrete design commitments>

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Files

Just SKILL.md in NAACL-Skills/skills/naacl-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Naacl Topic Selection

What does Naacl Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project should target NAACL rather than ACL, EMNLP, EACL, AACL, LREC-COLING, TACL, or an ML venue — weighing the chapter's Nations-of-the-Americas…. Naacl Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a project should target NAACL rather than ACL, EMNLP, EACL, AACL, LREC-COLING, TACL, or an ML venue — weighing the chapter's Nations-of-the-Americas identity, theme tracks, timing across skipped years, and whether the paper's audience actually convenes at this conference.

When should I use Naacl Topic Selection?

Naacl Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a project should target NAACL rather than ACL; an ML venue — weighing the chapters Nations-of-the-Americas identity; timing across skipped years; whether the papers audience actually convenes at this conference.

How do I install Naacl Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Naacl Topic Selection in Codex?

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

Can I use Naacl 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 naacl-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/naacl-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/naacl-topic-selection, .github/skills/naacl-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/naacl-topic-selection in your project.

What does Naacl Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Naacl 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 Naacl 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 Naacl Topic Selection use?

Naacl 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 Naacl Topic Selection use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 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 Naacl Topic Selection?

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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