After this lesson, you will be able to: Assemble a complete, SRW-ready short paper: a reproduction-plus-extension with rigorous evaluation, written in the ACL template with released code, plus a poster.
The track capstone, and the whole point: turn everything into a paper you could actually submit to an ACL Student Research Workshop. It composes the foundations, fine-tuning, evaluation, and publishing skills into one artifact.
A ~4-page ACL-format short paper built on your reproduction (Publishing) plus one extension, with results produced by your evaluation harness (multi-seed, significance, decontaminated), written with an explicit contributions list and a real Limitations section, accompanied by a public code repo and a one-panel poster. It does not need to be accepted, or even submitted, to count; the goal is a paper that an SRW mentor would call submittable. If you do submit, that is the track's success condition.
This integrates every prior sub-track's artifact.
Milestone 1: Finalize the scoped question + the paper you reproduced + your one extension.
Milestone 2: Produce the results with your eval harness: baselines, your method, multi-seed mean +/- variance, paired significance, decontamination documented.
Milestone 3: Write the paper in the ACL Overleaf template: abstract, intro with contributions bullets, related work, method, experiments, results, analysis/ablation, conclusion, Limitations, ethics if relevant.
Milestone 4: Fill the Responsible NLP checklist; release the code + model/data cards; pin the environment.
Milestone 5: Get a read from a mentor or peer; revise for the most impactful feedback.
Milestone 6: Make the poster + a 2-minute pitch. Optionally, target a real ARR deadline + SRW commitment date.
'I wrote an ACL-format short paper reproducing <result> and extending it with <twist>, evaluated with multi-seed significance on a decontaminated set, released the code, and prepared it for the ACL SRW.' For a PhD application, a research-engineer interview, or a grad-school conversation, that single sentence demonstrates the entire research pipeline. Whether or not it is accepted, it is the strongest artifact this track produces and the clearest evidence you can do research.
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