emnlp-author-response
Use when drafting an EMNLP author response in the ACL Rolling Review discussion window — triaging replies by soundness versus excitement, deciding what evidence can be added mid-review, staying anonymous, and writing for the area chair's meta-review and the post-commitment Senior Area Chairs, not the reviewers alone.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill emnlp-author-response --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.
# EMNLP Author Response Use this when ARR reviews land. In the May 2026 cycle the author response and author-reviewer discussion ran July 7-13, with meta-reviews released July 30 and EMNLP commitment due August 2 — a pipeline where the response is written once but read three times: by reviewers who may update, by the AC composing the meta-review, and by the conference SACs who see the whole record after commitment. Confirm the current window mechanics on the live ARR pages before drafting. ## Triage by score axis Sort every reviewer point by which score it threatens: - **Soundness attacks** ("the baseline is mistuned", "no significance test", "the claim exceeds the tested languages") — answer with evidence or a scope concession. These are the points that move outcomes, because soundness anchors publishability. - **Excitement discounts** ("incremental", "unsurprising") — answerable only by reframing what the finding changes for the field, briefly, once. Arguing taste at length reads as not having evidence. - **Misreadings** — correct with a quote and a section number, tone-free. A factual correction the AC can verify in ten seconds is your highest-value paragraph. ## What can and ca
- Triage by score axis
- What can and cannot be added
- Anatomy of a reply that moves a meta-review
- EMNLP-typical objections and their strongest answers
- When reviewers contradict each other
- Deciding not to fight
- Discussion-window conduct
- Output format
What does the emnlp-author-response skill do?
Use when drafting an EMNLP author response in the ACL Rolling Review discussion window — triaging replies by soundness versus excitement, deciding what evidence can be added mid-review, staying anonymous, and writing for the area chair's meta-review and the post-commitment Senior Area Chairs, not the reviewers alone.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill emnlp-author-response --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.