naacl-topic-selection
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.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill naacl-topic-selection --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.
# 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
- What the NAACL room is
- Routing among near-identical siblings
- The three-question fit test
- Two routing vignettes
- Shaping the project once NAACL is chosen
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the naacl-topic-selection skill do?
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.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill naacl-topic-selection --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.