NB. These instructions are only for authors
of the papers accepted to the NAACL-2001 conference. Authors for papers
for workshops, please contact the corresponding organizers.
Instructions
For Author
Please let us know about your audio-visual requirements
as soon as possible.
Authors must print the attached Copyright
Transfer Agreement, complete it and return it along with their
final camera-ready copy to the address given below.
Authors of papers dealing with implemented software
systems are encouraged to demonstrate their systems as part of the NAACL-2001
demonstrations program. Interested parties should contact the NAACL-2001
Demonstrations Chair by March 30, 2001.
Please see http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl/demo-cfp.html
for
contact and other information.
Papers should be prepared according to the following
guidelines:
The maximum length of a paper is 8 pages. Up
to two extra pages can be purchased for 250 US$ each; please include a
check payable to the Association for Computational Linguistics along
with your camera ready copies.
Use Letter size paper (8.5 x 11 inches). If
you have problems printing on Letter size paper, please send email to naaclpgm@isi.edu.
You MUST send us a hardcopy of your paper, printed single-sided. Electronic
versions are not an acceptable substitute for the hard copies.
Center the title of the manuscript along with authors'
names and their complete addresses at the top of the first page.
Generally print all text, including titles and figures,
in two-column format, each is of size 3.125 '' by 9'' (8cm by 22.5cm).
Exceptions to the two-column format include the title and author information
at the top of the first page and any full-width figures or tables.
Text should be centered on each page. It is
important that you leave about 1 inch (2.5 cm) margins on left and right
sides of each page as well as a 1 inch (2.5 cm) margin on the top of each
page.
Type single spaced.
Print on only one side of the page.
Indent when starting a new paragraph.
Use standard fonts such as Times Roman or Computer
Modern Roman, 11 to 12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and
title.
Do not print page numbers. Instead, please number
the pages clearly on the reverse side, in pencil.
All style files for the submission of the final version
are available here. This includes our LaTeX style
file naacl2001.sty
which
implements most of the requirements. It is intended for use with
the acl.bst BibTeX bibliography style. An MS Word document template
is also available. Be warned that use of these files on some systems
may produce incorrect results. Therefore, verify that the margins
and font size of your output conform to the guidelines. If they do
not, you are responsible for making the appropriate adjustments.
Some adjustments that may be useful are found here. If you discover some
adjustment that we have not listed, please mail us what you have found
so that we can add it to our list.
One copy of your final, camera-ready
paper must reach us no later than March 30,
2001. The mailing address:
Kevin Knight (Program Chair, NAACL 2001)
USC/Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
NAACL-2001 proceedings will also be available on
a CD-ROM. Therefore, in addition to hardcopy, you are also required to
provide a pdf file of your paper. The authors are responsible for
ensuring that the suitable fonts are included when necessary in preparing
the pdf file. If you are unable to produce a pdf file, please let
us know immediately. The pdf file for the CD-ROM proceedings must also
be submitted on or before March 30, 2001.
The submission of the pdf file can be done by (in order of preference):
Send email to naaclpgm@isi.edu
with the URL of the site from which we can download the pdf file.
This site is maintained by Yaser
Al-Onaizan. Any questions regarding NAACL-2001 should be directed to
the right people. Visit the conference
web site for details.
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