emnlp-writing-style
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.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill emnlp-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.
# 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 sentence | What a reviewer hears | Scoped 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
- The scoping discipline
- Examples must be load-bearing
- First-page architecture
- Writing the Limitations section
- Hedging calibration
- Titles and abstracts, venue idiom
- Terminology honesty
- Two-column craft, ACL flavor
- The revision pass, ordered
- Output format
What does the emnlp-writing-style skill do?
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.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill emnlp-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.