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emnlp-writing-style

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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.

When to use

• revising an EMNLP draft
• phenomenon-first framing
• scoping empirical claims
• converting decorative examples to load-bearing ones
• writing the Limitations section
• calibrating hedging to evidence strength
• crafting titles and abstracts
• applying ACL two-column discipline

When not to use

• writing non-empirical papers
• using unfalsifiable contribution bullets
• stacking hedges
• using mentalistic verbs without operationalization
• using undated state-of-the-art claims
• compressing content at the end instead of designing for the page cap

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