emnlp-related-work
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EMNLP Related Work
Use this to audit positioning and citation hygiene. NLP's literature moves faster than any reviewing cycle: between your ARR submission and the meta-review, the arXiv neighborhood of your paper will visibly change. EMNLP reviewers know this and calibrate — what they do not forgive is missing the lineage that existed before you submitted, or citing papers that do not exist.
The lineage obligations
An EMNLP related-work section owes coverage on distinct axes:
| Axis | The reviewer's question | Where to check |
|---|---|---|
| Task lineage | Who defined and reshaped this task? | ACL Anthology back through renamings |
| Dataset ancestry | What data does your benchmark descend from or contain? | Dataset papers + their own provenance sections |
| Method neighbors | Which current approaches would contest your comparison table? | Last 2-3 years of ACL-family venues + arXiv |
| Evaluation critique | Has this metric or protocol been critiqued? | The methodology literature this venue itself publishes |
| Adjacent fields | Does IR / speech / ML own part of this idea? | Cross-community search before claiming firsts |