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Use when deciding whether a project belongs at EMNLP, weighing its empirical-NLP identity against ACL, NAACL, EACL, AACL, CoNLL, LREC-COLING, TACL, and ML venues, matching the contribution to EMNLP's welcomed paper types including negative results and reproductions, and choosing between main conference, Findings, industry, and demo pipelines.

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# EMNLP Topic Selection

Use this before writing. EMNLP's name is its thesis: *empirical methods*. The venue's
center of gravity is work whose contribution is established by measurement — new
evaluations, datasets, analyses of model behavior, and methods whose value is demonstrated
rather than argued. Sibling venues share the reviewer pool through ARR, so the routing
question is less "will it be reviewed differently" than "which program will want it."

## The empirical-identity test

Ask three questions of the project:

1. **Is there a language phenomenon or task behavior at the center?** EMNLP papers are
   about something a system does with language, not about an architecture that happens
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