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: