Instructions for EACL-06 Proceedings

Eneko Agirre Sergio Balari Ravera Emanuele Pianta IXA NLP Group Dep. De Filologia Catalana ITC-irst UBC UAB 38050, Povo Donostia, Basque Country Barcelona, Catalonia Trento, Italy [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Abstract 3 General Instructions

This document contains the instructions Manuscripts must be in two-column format. Ex- for preparing a camera-ready manuscript ceptions to the two-column format include the ti- for the proceedings of EACL-06. The tle, authors’ names and complete addresses, document itself conforms to its own which must be centered at the top of the first specifications, and is therefore an exam- page, and any full-width figures or tables (see the ple of what your manuscript should look guidelines in Subsection 3.4). Type single-s- like. Authors are asked to conform to all paced. Start all pages directly under the top the directions reported in this document. margin. See the guidelines later regarding for- matting the first page. 1 Credits The maximum length of a manuscript is eight (8) pages for the main conference, printed single- This document has been adapted from the in- sided (see Section 4 for additional information structions for ACL-05 and EACL-03 pro- on the maximum number of pages). ceed-ings by Eneko Agirre, Sergio Balari Rav- era, and Emanuele Pianta. Instructions for ACL- 3.1 Electronically-available resources 05 and EACL-03 were in turn based on the for- EACL provides this description in LATEX2e (ea- mats of earlier ACL and EACL Conference pro- cl2006.tex) and PDF format (eacl2006.pdf), ceedings. Those versions were written by several along with the LAT X2e style file used to format people, including John Chen, Henry S. Thomp- E son and Donald Walker. it (eacl2006.sty) and an ACL bibliography style (eacl.bst). These files are all available at 2 Introduction http://eacl06.itc.it/submission.htm. A Microsoft Word template file (eacl2006.dot) is The following instructions are directed to authors also available at the same URL. We strongly rec- of papers accepted for publication in the EACL- ommend the use of these style files, which have 06 proceedings. All authors are required to ad- been appropriately tailored for the EACL-06 pro- here to these specifications. Authors are required ceedings. to provide a Portable Document Format (PDF) and PostScript version of their papers. The pro- 3.2 Format of Electronic Manuscript ceedings will be printed on A4 paper. Authors For the production of the electronic manuscript from countries in which access to word-process- you must use Adobe's Portable Document For- ing systems is limited should contact the publica- mat (PDF). This format can be generated from tion chairs Eneko Agirre ([email protected]) and postscript files. On Unix systems, you can use Sergio Balari Ravera ([email protected]) as ps2pdf for this purpose. Under Microsoft soon as possible. Windows, you can use Adobe's Distiller or GSview (File>Convert>pdfwrite); if you have cygwin in-stalled, you can use dvipdf or ps2pdf. Note that some word processing programs gener- ate PDF which may not include all the necessary fonts (esp. tree diagrams, symbols). When you \usepackage{times} print or create the PDF file, there is usually an \usepackage{latexsym} option in your printer setup to include none, all or just non-standard fonts. Please make sure that in the preamble. If Times Roman is unavailable, you select the option of including ALL the fonts. use Computer Modern Roman (LATEXe's de- Be-fore sending it, test your PDF by printing it fault). Note that the latter is about 10% less from a computer different from the one where it dense than Adobe's Times Roman font. was created. Moreover, some word processor may generate very large postscript/PDF files, 3.5 The First Page where each page is rendered as an image. Such Center the title, author's name(s) and images may reproduce poorly. In this case, try al- affiliation(s) across both columns. Do not use ternative ways to obtain the postscript and/or footnotes for affiliations. Do not include the pa- PDF. One way on some systems is to install a per ID number assigned during the submission driver for a postscript printer, send your docu- process. Use the two-column format only when ment to the printer specifying “Output to a file”, you begin the abstract. then convert the file to PDF. Title: Place the title centered at the top of the It is of utmost importance to specify the A4 first page, in a 15-point bold font. Long title format (21 cm  29.7 cm) when formatting the should be typed on two lines without a blank line paper. When working with dvips, for instance, intervening. Approximately, put the title at 2.5 one should specify -t a4. cm from the top of the page, followed by a blank Print-outs of the PDF file on A4 paper should line, then the author's names(s), and the affilia- be identical to the hardcopy version. If you can- tion on the following line. Do not use only ini- not meet the above requirements about the pro- tials for given names (middle initials are al- duction of your electronic submission, please lowed). The affiliation should contain the au- contact the publication chairs above as soon as thor's complete address, and if possible an elec- possible. tronic mail address. Leave about 2 cm between the affiliation and the body of the first page. 3.3 Layout Abstract: Type the abstract at the beginning Format manuscripts two columns to a page, in of the first column. The width of the abstract text the manner these instructions are formatted. The should be smaller than the width of the columns exact dimensions for a page on A4 paper are: for the text in the body of the paper by about 0.6 cm on each side. Center the word Abstract in a  Left and right margins: 2.5 cm 12 point bold font above the body of the abstract.  Top margin: 2.5 cm The abstract should be a concise summary of the general thesis and conclusions of the paper. It  Bottom margin: 2.5 cm should be no longer than 200 words.  Column width: 7.7 cm Text: Begin typing the main body of the text immediately after the abstract, observing the  Column height: 24.7 cm two-column format as shown in the present doc-  Gap between columns: 0.6 cm ument. Indent when starting a new paragraph. Use 11 Papers should not be submitted on any other points for text and subsection headings, 12 points paper size. Exceptionally, authors for whom it is for section headings and 15 points for the title. impossible to print on A4 paper may use US Let- ter paper. In this case, they should keep the top 3.6 Sections and left margins as given above, use the same Headings: Type and label section and subsection column width, height and gap, and modify the headings in the style shown on the present docu- bottom and right margins as necessary. Note that ment. Use numbered sections (Arabic numerals) the text will no longer be centered. in order to facilitate cross references. Number 3.4 Fonts subsections with the section number and the sub- section number separated by a dot, in Arabic nu- For reasons of uniformity, Adobe's Times Ro- merals. Do not number subsubsections. man font should be used. In LATEX2e, this is Citations: Citations within the text appear in accomplished by putting parentheses as (Gusfield, 1997) or, if the author's name appears in the text itself, as Gusfield (1997). Append lowercase letters to the year in tion of the Table.” Type the captions of the fig- cases of ambiguities. Treat double authors as in ures and tables below the body, using 11 point (Aho and Ullman, 1972), but write as in (Chan- text. dra et al., 1981) when more than two authors are involved. Collapse multiple citations as in (Gus- 4 Length of Submission field, 1997; Aho and Ullman, 1972). Eight pages (8) is the maximum length of papers References: Gather the full set of references for the EACL-06 main conference. All illustra- together under the heading References; place the tions, references, and appendices must be accom- section before any Appendices, unless they con- modated within these page limits, observing the tain references. Arrange the references alphabeti- formatting instructions given in the present docu- cally by first author, rather than by order of oc- ment. Papers that do not conform to the speci- currence in the text. Provide as complete a cita- fied length and formatting requirements are sub- tion as possible, using a consistent format, such ject to be rejected without review. as the one for Computational Linguistics or the Up to two (2) additional pages may be pur- one in the Publication Manual of the American chased from EACL at the price of $250 per page; Psychological Association (American Psycho- please contact the publication chairs above for logical Association, 1983). Use of full names for more information about this option. authors rather than initials is preferred. A list of abbreviations for common computer science References journals can be found in the ACM Computing Reviews (Association for Computing Machinery, Alfred. V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman. 1972. The 1983). Theory of Parsing, Translation and Compil- The LATEX2e and BibTEX style files provid- ing, volume 1. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, ed roughly fit the American Psychological Asso- NJ. ciation format, allowing regular citations, short American Psychological Association. 1983. Publica- citations and multiple citations as described tions Manual. American Psychological Associa- above. tion, Washington, DC. Appendices: Appendices, if any, directly fol- Association for Computing Machinery. 1983. Com- low the text and the references (but see above). puting Reviews, 24(11):503-512. Letter them in sequence and provide an informa- tive title: Appendix A. Title of Appendix. Ashok K. Chandra, Dexter C. Kozen, and Larry J.S- Acknowledgement sections should go as a tockmeyer. 1981. Alternation. Journal of the As- last section immediately before the references. sociation for Computing Machinery, 28(1):114- Do not number the acknowledgement section. 133. 3.7 Footnotes Dan Gusfield. 1997. Algorithms on Strings, Trees and Sequences. Cambridge University Press, Footnotes: Put footnotes at the bottom of the Cambridge, UK. page and use 9 points text. They may be num- bered or referred to by asterisks or other sym- bols.1 Footnotes should be separated from the main text by a line.2 3.8 Graphics Illustrations: Place figures, tables, and photo- graphs in the paper near where they are first dis- cussed, rather than at the end, if possible. Wide illustrations may run across both columns. Do not use color illustrations as they may reproduce poorly. Captions: Provide a caption for every illustra- tion; number each one sequentially in the form: “Figure 1. Caption of the Figure.” “Table 1. Cap-

1 This is how a footnote should appear. 2 Note the line separating the footnotes from the text.