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Use when revising an ACL paper for computational-linguistics house style, covering task-first framing, linguistic examples tied to quantitative error analysis, scoping language claims to tested languages, LLM-era claim discipline, anonymous self-reference, Limitations prose, and compressing into the 8-page or 4-page ACL format.

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# ACL Writing Style

Use this on the manuscript itself. ACL reviewers are NLP specialists who read
for whether the paper understands *language* as well as *models*; the style
that survives them is concrete, example-grounded, and precisely scoped.

## First-page contract

- Open with the task or linguistic phenomenon, not the model family: what
  goes in, what comes out, why it is hard, and for whom.
- State the contribution as a typed claim by paragraph two: new method, new
  resource, new analysis, or new finding — ACL reviews are calibrated per type.
- Give one real example (input, desired output, failure of the status quo)
  on page one; abstract problem statements without an example read as vague
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