research-paper-writing

Follow a phased pipeline: define a one-sentence contribution, map every experiment to a claim, run baselines with statistical significance tests, then draft using the official venue LaTeX template. Complete the venue's mandatory checklist before submission to avoid desk rejection.

Never generate BibTeX from memory; fetch it programmatically via DOI content negotiation from CrossRef or the Semantic Scholar API. Verify each paper exists in at least two sources and confirm the cited claim appears in the abstract, marking unverifiable entries as placeholders.

The templates directory includes official style files for ICML 2026, ICLR 2026, NeurIPS 2025, ACL, AAAI 2026, and COLM 2025, each with the .sty file, bibliography style, and example document. Compile with pdflatex plus bibtex or latexmk.

Yes, it covers annotator selection, pairwise versus Likert scale design, inter-annotator agreement metrics like Krippendorff's alpha, crowdsourcing platform choice, and compensation reporting. It also includes IRB guidance and the reporting details ACL and EMNLP reviewers expect.

Use McNemar's test for paired binary outcomes between two methods, bootstrapped 95% confidence intervals for key metrics, and Cohen's h for effect size. Always report sample sizes, number of runs, and whether error bars show standard deviation or standard error.

Use autoreason for mid-tier models on constrained tasks where the generation-evaluation gap is large; it wins consistently there. For frontier models on unconstrained tasks or very weak models, single pass or critique-and-revise performs better and costs far less compute.