Use when targeting Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) or deciding whether a computer-science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes conference fit, framing, evidence bar, submission-cycle checks, rebuttal posture, and desk-reject risks for NLP regional flagship.
SkillScore78Maintained
Automatic
◆Research pack
Last verified 9/2/2026
What it changes
Passed 18 of 23 test cases with the skill, and 16 of 23 without it.
Without skill70%
With skill78%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
The response suggests re-routing the acoustic hardware manuscript to Interspeech.
The response uses the required bracketed key-value header '[Fit]' on its first line.
The response identifies relying solely on a prompt table as a common desk-reject trigger.
and 2 more in the full report
4 fixed14 passed either way3 still failing2 broke
Pass-rate lift
+9 pp
Tokens
+23%
Agent turns
0%
Response time
-43%
Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 9/2/2026v118 of 23 cases passed with skill
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
See it in action
One of 4 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
1 of 4
Prompt
We developed a hardware-accelerated acoustic feature extraction chip for raw audio speaker identification, tested strictly on acoustic waveforms without any natural language processing, text generation, or linguistic analysis. Provide a venue fit assessment detailing fit level, target venue, contribution type, evidence gap, official checklist, rejection risk, and re-route suggestion.
What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked
Without skill
With skill
The response rates the venue fit as Low for a paper without computational linguistics focus.
Missed
Passed
The response suggests re-routing the acoustic hardware manuscript to Interspeech.
Missed
Passed
case-09 · gemini-3.6-flash · 9/2/2026 · answers are capped and redacted
What's inside
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
SKILL.md99 linessingle file
Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)
Conference positioning
Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) is a top computer-science conference venue for NLP and computational linguistics with European ACL community focus. It rewards a language paper suited to the EACL cycle and computational-linguistics readership. Treat this skill as a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool for conference submission strategy, not as a substitute for the current year's CFP, author kit, ethics policy, or submission portal.
Because CS conferences change deadlines, templates, page limits, review workflow, artifact rules, AI-use policy, and rebuttal formats every cycle, always verify the live official instructions before making a submission-ready recommendation. Start from the official source anchor recorded for this venue in ../../resources/conference-roster.md and ../../resources/official-source-map.md.
When to trigger
The author names EACL / Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics as the target venue.
A manuscript in NLP and computational linguistics with European ACL community focus needs a conference-fit read before being formatted or submitted.
The paper must be re-framed from journal style or arXiv style into a selective CS conference narrative.
The author needs an evidence-gap, anonymity, artifact, rebuttal, or re-routing diagnosis for this venue.
Scope & topic fit
Core fit: NLP and computational linguistics with European ACL community focus.
Best submissions make a precise contribution type visible: algorithm, theorem, system, dataset, benchmark, empirical finding, design artifact, tool, or socio-technical analysis.
The paper should explain why the result matters to EACL's reviewers, not just why it is interesting to the authors' lab or product context.
Position related work against the most recent conference-cycle papers in this venue and its closest siblings; stale comparisons are a common early-review weakness.
If the contribution is interdisciplinary, state which part is CS research and which part is domain evidence.
Venue-specific calibration
Reviewer lens: Treat EACL as an ACL-family venue with a European chapter identity and strong multilingual/computational-linguistics traditions. Emphasize language coverage, linguistic clarity, and ACL-family evaluation discipline rather than generic NLP speed.
Contribution hook to foreground: the venue-specific contribution bar.
Scope vocabulary to use naturally in the abstract and introduction: NLP and computational linguistics with European ACL community focus.
Official anchor domain: eacl.org. Quote annual rules only after opening that source and the current-year CFP/author kit.
Close-neighbor routing guardrail
Route to EACL when the paper is an NLP contribution and the European ACL chapter
cycle/community is the right fit for timing, topic, or audience.
Do not treat EACL as a generic fallback from ACL/EMNLP. Resource-heavy papers may fit LREC-
COLING; dialogue, semantics, or generation may fit SIGDIAL, *SEM, or INLG.
What distinguishes this venue from its closest siblings
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