naacl-writing-style
Use when revising the prose of a NAACL submission — scoping every claim to the languages and varieties actually tested, presenting non-English examples with glosses that carry the argument, writing a Limitations section that anticipates reviewers, and cutting to the ARR content-page budget without losing the linguistic substance.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill naacl-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.
# NAACL Writing Style The house register at NAACL is precise about language and modest about generality. The chapter's renaming to "Nations of the Americas" sharpened a tendency its reviewers already had: sentences that quietly equate "language" with "English" or "text" with "standardized text" get flagged, and claims are expected to wear their linguistic scope on the surface. ## Scope discipline: say which languages, every time The most common NAACL-bound prose failure is the unscoped universal: | Draft sentence | What a reviewer writes | Repaired sentence | |---|---|---| | "Our method improves summarization." | "On which languages?" | "improves summarization on English and Brazilian Portuguese news" | | "LLMs struggle with negation." | "All LLMs? All constructions?" | "the four evaluated models mishandle sentential negation in Spanish" | | "This transfers to low-resource settings." | "You tested one." | "transfers to Guaraní; other low-resource claims remain untested" | | "Speakers prefer our outputs." | "Which speakers, recruited how?" | "22 L1 Mexican-Spanish annotators preferred outputs 68% of the time" | The repair is never hedging for its own sake — it is replacing a categor
- Scope discipline: say which languages, every time
- Examples as argument, not decoration
- First page architecture
- Limitations as anticipatory prose
- Compression order for the content-page budget
- Terminology and notation consistency
- Register calibration
- Output format
What does the naacl-writing-style skill do?
Use when revising the prose of a NAACL submission — scoping every claim to the languages and varieties actually tested, presenting non-English examples with glosses that carry the argument, writing a Limitations section that anticipates reviewers, and cutting to the ARR content-page budget without losing the linguistic substance.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill naacl-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.