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 at this venue.
• Say what languages the paper covers in the abstract if the answer is not "English only" — and if it is, say that too.

Claim scoping in the LLM era