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Abstract publication in its proceedings. All authors are re-
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proceedings of ACL 2019. The document it- mat (PDF) version of their papers. The proceed-
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Lukin and Alla Roskovskaya, ACL 2018 by Shay its length should not exceed the maximum page 077
Cohen, Kevin Gimpel, and Wei Lu, NAACL limit described in Section 5. Pages are numbered
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2018 by Margaret Michell and Stephanie Lukin, for initial submission. However, do not number
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2017/2018 (NA)ACL bibtex suggestions from Ja- the pages in the camera-ready version.
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Yen Kan, NAACL 2017 by Margaret Mitchell, this document, it will compile to produce an exam-
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ACL 2012 by Maggie Li and Michael White, those ple of the camera-ready formatting; by leaving it
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from ACL 2010 by Jing-Shing Chang and Philipp commented out, the document will be anonymized
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Koehn, those for ACL 2008 by JohannaD. Moore, for initial submission. When you first create
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102 paper without circumlocution. If you are prepar- each page is rendered as an image. Such images 152
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104 please arrange for an equivalent ruler to appear on ways to obtain the PDF. One way on some systems 154
105 the final output pages. The presence or absence is to install a driver for a postscript printer, send 155
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108 copy should not contain a ruler. (LATEX users may It is of utmost importance to specify the A4 for- 158
109 uncomment the \aclfinalcopy command in the mat (21 cm x 29.7 cm) when formatting the paper. 159
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when done, looks ugly. In most cases one would dvipdf and/or pdflatex which would make
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expect that the approximate location will be ade- it easier for some.
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quate, although you can also use fractional refer- Print-outs of the PDF file on A4 paper should
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publication chairs as soon as possible.
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Format manuscripts two columns to a page, in the
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125 style (acl natbib.bst) and example bibli- dimensions for a page on A4 paper are: 175
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128 acl2019-latex.zip. We strongly recom- 178
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3.3 Format of Electronic Manuscript
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For the production of the electronic manuscript • Column height: 24.7 cm
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(PDF). PDF files are usually produced from LATEX • Gap between columns: 0.6 cm
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using the pdflatex command. If your version of
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200 Type of Text Font Size Style Command Output Command Output 250
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203 author affiliation 12 pt {\.I} İ {\˜n} ñ 253
{\o} ø {\H o} ő
204 the word “Abstract” 12 pt bold {\’u} ú {\v r} ř 254
205 section titles 12 pt bold {\aa} å {\ss} ß 255
206 subsection titles 11 pt bold 256
Table 2: Example commands for accented characters,
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to be used in, e.g., BIBTEX names.
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Table 1: Font guide. Abstract: Type the abstract at the beginning of
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the first column. The width of the abstract text
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be no longer than 200 words. The abstract text
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222 across both columns. Do not use footnotes for af- Text: Begin typing the main body of the text 272
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225 two-column format only when you begin the ab- Do not include page numbers. 275
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227 Title: Place the title centered at the top of the about 0.4 cm. Use 11 points for text and subsec- 277
228 first page, in a 15-point bold font. (For a com- tion headings, 12 points for section headings and 278
229 plete guide to font sizes and styles, see Table 1) 15 points for the title. 279
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by a blank line, then the author’s names(s), and headings in the style shown on the present doc-
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the affiliation on the following line. Do not use ument. Use numbered sections (Arabic numerals)
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only initials for given names (middle initials are in order to facilitate cross references. Number sub-
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allowed). Do not format surnames in all capitals sections with the section number and the subsec-
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format title and section headings in all capitals as als. Do not number subsubsections.
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well except for proper names (such as “BLEU”) Citations: Citations within the text appear in
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that are conventionally in all capitals. The affilia- parentheses as (?) or, if the author’s name ap-
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tion should contain the author’s complete address, pears in the text itself, as Gusfield (?). Using the
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provided LATEX style, the former is accomplished
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245 be completely identical to those entered to the ing commas within the \cite command, e.g., 295
246 electronical paper submission website in order to \cite{Gusfield:97,Aho:72}. Append lower- 296
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301 (?) \citep \cite 351
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Table 3: Citation commands supported by the style file. The citation style is based on the natbib package and
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supports all natbib citation commands. It also supports commands defined in previous ACL style files for compat-
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Anthology Identifier) to all cited works. Thus,
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“Gusfield (?) showed that ...” please ensure that you use BibTEX records that
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contain DOI or URLs for any of the ACL materials
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that you reference. Appropriate records should be
318 style files, you can use the command \citet found for most materials in the current ACL An- 368
319 (cite in text) to get “author (year)” citations. thology at http://aclanthology.info/. 369
320 You can use the command \citealp (alterna- As examples, we cite (?) to show you how pa- 370
321 tive cite without parentheses) to get “author year” pers with a DOI will appear in the bibliography. 371
322 citations (which is useful for using citations within We cite (?) to show how papers without a DOI but 372
323 parentheses, as in ?). with an ACL Anthology Identifier will appear in 373
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325 per title in the references section will appear as As reviewing will be double-blind, the submit- 375
326 a hyperlink to the DOI, using the hyperref LATEX ted version of the papers should not include the 376
327 package. To disable the hyperref package, load authors’ names and affiliations. Furthermore, self- 377
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346 http://tug.org/errors.html) References: Gather the full set of references to- 396
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400 by order of occurrence in the text. By using a .bib illustrations may run across both columns. Color 450
401 file, as in this template, this will be automatically illustrations are discouraged, unless you have ver- 451
402 handled for you. See the \bibliography com- ified that they will be understandable when printed 452
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404 Provide as complete a citation as possible, us- Captions: Provide a caption for every illustra- 454
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406 putational Linguistics or the one in the Publica- “Figure 1. Caption of the Figure.” “Table 1. Cap- 456
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408 ciation (?). Use of full names for authors rather ures and tables below the body, using 10 point 458
409 than initials is preferred. A list of abbreviations for text. Captions should be placed below illustra- 459
410 common computer science journals can be found tions. Captions that are one line are centered (see 460
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tion format, allowing regular citations, short cita- with the caption and subcaption packages; do not
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• Example article in journal citation: (?). In an effort to accommodate people who are color-
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acters and terms with appropriate transliterations
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and/or translations since not all readers understand
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all such characters and terms. Inline transliteration
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Letter them in sequence and provide an informa- The ACL 2019 main conference accepts submis-
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tive title: Appendix A. Title of Appendix. sions of long papers and short papers. Long papers
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may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus
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Footnotes: Put footnotes at the bottom of the page final versions of long papers will be given one ad-
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442 should be separated from the text by a line.2 comments can be taken into account. Short papers 492
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unlimited pages for references. Upon acceptance,
445 Illustrations: Place figures, tables, and pho- short papers will be given five (5) pages in the pro- 495
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Submissions may include non-readable supple-
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in the paper. Any accompanying software and/or
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data should include licenses and documentation
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of research review as appropriate. Supplemen-
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507 two such types of material: appendices, which can model parameters, and other details necessary for 557
508 be read, and non-readable supplementary materi- the replication of the experiments reported in the 558
509 als, often data or code. Do not include this addi- paper. Seemingly small preprocessing decisions 559
510 tional material in the same document as your main can sometimes make a large difference in perfor- 560
511 paper. Additional material must be submitted as mance, so it is crucial to record such decisions to 561
512 one or more separate files, and must adhere to the precisely characterize state-of-the-art methods. 562
513 same anonymity guidelines as the main paper. The Nonetheless, supplementary material should be 563
514 paper must be self-contained: it is optional for re- supplementary (rather than central) to the pa- 564
515 viewers to look at the supplementary material. Pa- per. Submissions that misuse the supplemen- 565
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Appendix B for further information. into the paper, lists of features or feature tem-
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before the references. Do not number the ac- will not be asked to review the supplementary ma-
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