ACL Topic Selection

ACL Topic Selection is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by brycewang-stanford in Awesome-Journal-Skills.

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Install ACL Topic Selection

Copy ACL Topic Selection into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ACL-Skills/skills/acl-topic-selection ~/.claude/skills/acl-topic-selection

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: ACL-Skills/skills/acl-topic-selection/SKILL.md in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/acl-topic-selection
Collection: One of 53 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What ACL Topic Selection does

ACL Topic Selection helps decide whether an NLP project fits ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, EACL, TACL, Computational Linguistics, COLM, or an ML venue. It also guides contribution type, long-vs-short paper choice, theme-track fit, and framing before drafting.

ACL Topic Selection is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. ACL Topic Selection comes from a repository tagged academic-research, academic-writing, agent-skills, ai-agents and anthropic.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

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

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about ACL Topic Selection

What else does brycewang-stanford publish alongside ACL Topic Selection?
ACL Topic Selection is one of 53 skills that DirSkills catalogs from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AAAI Artifact Evaluation, AAAI Author Response and AAAI Camera Ready. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way ACL Topic Selection does, and is maintained by brycewang-stanford in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills page.
How does ACL Topic Selection compare to other AI Engineering skills?
ACL Topic Selection ranks #1383 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of ACL Topic Selection against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.