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Use when deciding whether a project fits ACL versus EMNLP, NAACL, EACL, TACL, Computational Linguistics, COLM, or an ML venue, covering contribution typing for NLP work, long-versus-short paper choice, the annual theme track, Findings-tier expectations, and sharpening the computational-linguistics framing before writing starts.

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# ACL Topic Selection

Use this before the first draft. ACL is the flagship of the \*ACL family:
broadest scope across computational linguistics and NLP, the most competitive
main-program bar, and — under ACL Rolling Review — a venue choice you finalize
at *commitment* time, which gives topic strategy an unusual second chance.

## What ACL rewards

- A contribution about **language**: modeling it, measuring it, resourcing it,
  or explaining how systems process it — with the linguistic question visible,
  not incidental.
- Typed contributions reviewers can classify fast: method, resource,
  evaluation/metric, analysis, theory, or position. Papers that are half
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