acl-writing-style
Use when revising an ACL paper for computational-linguistics house style, covering task-first framing, linguistic examples tied to quantitative error analysis, scoping language claims to tested languages, LLM-era claim discipline, anonymous self-reference, Limitations prose, and compressing into the 8-page or 4-page ACL format.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill acl-writing-style --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# ACL Writing Style Use this on the manuscript itself. ACL reviewers are NLP specialists who read for whether the paper understands *language* as well as *models*; the style that survives them is concrete, example-grounded, and precisely scoped. ## First-page contract - Open with the task or linguistic phenomenon, not the model family: what goes in, what comes out, why it is hard, and for whom. - State the contribution as a typed claim by paragraph two: new method, new resource, new analysis, or new finding — ACL reviews are calibrated per type. - Give one real example (input, desired output, failure of the status quo) on page one; abstract problem statements without an example read as vague at this venue. - Say what languages the paper covers in the abstract if the answer is not "English only" — and if it is, say that too. ## Claim scoping in the LLM era | Reflex phrasing | ACL-safe phrasing | |---|---| | "LLMs cannot do X" | "The five models tested fail X under these prompts" | | "Our method understands Y" | "Improves the Y benchmark by n points; error classes A, B shrink" | | "Works across languages" | "Evaluated on de/hi/sw/zh/ar; typological coverage discussed in §7" | | "Sign
- First-page contract
- Claim scoping in the LLM era
- Examples and error analysis as prose
- Anonymity-compatible voice
- Compression into 8 (or 4) pages
- Limitations and ethics prose
- Micro-edit pass
- Terminology and notation discipline
- Section-level failure smells
- Output format
What does the acl-writing-style skill do?
Use when revising an ACL paper for computational-linguistics house style, covering task-first framing, linguistic examples tied to quantitative error analysis, scoping language claims to tested languages, LLM-era claim discipline, anonymous self-reference, Limitations prose, and compressing into the 8-page or 4-page ACL format.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill acl-writing-style --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.