Instructions for EAMT 2014 Proceedings
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Abstract chair Marko Tadić at [Link]@[Link] as soon
as possible.
This document contains the instructions
for preparing a camera-ready manuscript 3 General Instructions
for the proceedings of EAMT 2014. The
Manuscripts must be in two-column format. Ex-
document itself conforms to its own spec-
ceptions to the two-column format include the title,
ifications, and is therefore an example of
authors’ names and complete addresses, which
what your manuscript should look like.
must be centered at the top of the first page, and
Authors are asked to conform to all the di-
any full-width figures or tables (see the guidelines
rections reported in this document.
in Subsection 3.5). Type single-spaced. Start all
1 Credits pages directly under the top margin. See the guide-
lines later regarding formatting the first page.
This document is derived from the instructions Unless otherwise specified, the maximum
for EAMT 2014 which was the latest in a long length of a manuscript is 8 (eight) pages printed
line of adaptations: EAMT 2009, EAMT 2011, single-sided (see Section 4 for additional informa-
EAMT 2012, Coling 2008, ACL-07, Coling/ACL- tion on the maximum number of pages).
06, EACL-06, ACL-05 and EACL-03. All these
were based on the formats of earlier ACL and 3.1 Electronically-available resources
EACL Conference proceedings. Those versions This description is provided in LATEX2e
were written by several people, including John ([Link]) along with the LATEX2e style file
Chen, Henry S. Thompson and Donald Walker. used to format it ([Link]) and an EAMT
bibliography style ([Link]); and in PDF for-
2 Introduction mat ([Link]). These files are all available at
The following formatting instructions are directed [Link] There is also a Microsoft
to authors of papers accepted for publication in Word document template ([Link]) available
EAMT 2014 proceedings, including the main con- at the same URL. We strongly recommend the use
ference, workshops, posters and demos. See also of these style files, which have been appropriately
the conference website [Link] for tailored for the EAMT 2014 proceedings.
additional advice and information regarding sub-
3.2 Format of Electronic Manuscript
mission. All authors are required to adhere to these
specifications. Authors are required to submit their For the production of the electronic manuscript
papers in PDF (Portable Document Format). The you must use Adobe’s Portable Document For-
proceedings will be printed on A4 paper. Authors mat (PDF). This format can be generated from
from countries in which access to word processing postscript files. On Unix systems, you can use
systems is limited should contact the conference ps2pdf for this purpose. Under Microsoft Win-
dows, you can use Adobe’s Distiller or GSview
c 2014 The authors. This article is licensed under a Creative
Commons 3.0 licence, no derivative works, attribution, CC- (File>Convert>pdfwrite); if you have cygwin in-
BY-ND. stalled, you can use ps2pdf. Note that some word
processing programs generate PDF which may not in the preamble. If Times Roman is unavailable,
include all the necessary fonts (esp. tree diagrams, use Computer Modern Roman (LATEX2e’s de-
symbols). When you print or create the PDF file, fault). Note that the latter is about 10% less dense
there is usually an option in your printer setup to than Adobe’s Times Roman font.
include none, all or just non-standard fonts. Please
make sure that you select the option of including 3.5 The First Page
ALL the fonts. Before sending it, test your PDF by Center the title, authors’ names and affiliations
printing it from a computer different from the one across both columns. Do not use footnotes for
where it was created. Moreover, some word pro- affiliations. Do not include the paper ID number
cessors may generate very large postscript / PDF assigned during the submission process. Use the
files, where each page is rendered as an image. two-column format only when you begin the ab-
Such images may reproduce poorly. In this case, stract.
try alternative ways to obtain the postscript and / Title: Place the title centered at the top of the
or PDF. One way on some systems is to install a first page, in a 15-point bold font. Long titles
driver for a postscript printer, send your document should be typed on two lines without a blank line
to the printer specifying “Output to a file”, then intervening. Approximately, put the title at 2.5 cm
convert the file to PDF. (1 in) from the top of the page, followed by a blank
It is of utmost importance to specify the A4 for- line, then the authors’ names, and the affiliations
mat (21.0 cm x 29.7 cm) / (8.3 in x 11.7 in) when on the following line. Do not use only initials for
formatting the paper. When working with dvips, given names (middle initials are allowed). Avoid
for instance, one should specify -t a4. capitalizing last names. The affiliation should con-
Print-outs of the PDF file on A4 paper should tain the author’s complete address, and if possible
look like the present document, which conforms to an electronic mail address. Leave about 2 cm (0.75
the formatting requirements. Note that in order for in) between the affiliation and the body of the first
your paper to print correctly, you should disable page.
centering and scale-to-fit options on your printer. Abstract: Type the abstract at the beginning of
If you cannot meet the above requirements about the first column. The width of the abstract text
the production of your camera-ready paper, please should be smaller than the width of the columns for
contact the programme chairs as soon as possible. the text in the body of the paper by about 0.6 cm
(0.25 in) on each side. Center the word Abstract
3.3 Layout
in a 12 point bold font above the body of the ab-
Format manuscripts two columns to a page, in the stract. The abstract should be a concise summary
manner these instructions are formatted. The exact of the general thesis and conclusions of the paper.
dimensions for a page on A4 paper are: It should be no longer than 200 words.
Text: Begin typing the main body of the text
• Left and right margins: 2.5 cm (1 in) immediately after the abstract, observing the two-
• Top margin: 2.5 cm (1 in) column format as shown in the present document.
Use 11 point font for text. Indent when starting a
• Bottom margin: 2.5 cm (1 in) new paragraph, except for the first paragraph fol-
• Column width: 7.7 cm (3.1 in) lowing each heading.
• Column height: 23.7 cm (9.4 in) 3.6 Sections
• Gap between columns: 0.5 cm (0.2 in) Headings: Type and label section and subsection
headings in the style shown on the present docu-
3.4 Fonts ment. Use numbered sections (Arabic numerals)
For uniformity, Adobe’s Times Roman font in order to facilitate cross references. Number sub-
should be used. In LATEX2e this is accomplished sections with the section number and the subsec-
by putting tion number separated by a dot, in Arabic numer-
als. Do not number subsubsections. Use 11 point
\usepackage{times} font for subsection headings and 12 point font for
\usepackage{latexsym} section headings.
Citations: Citations within the text appear in should be separated from the main text by a line.2
parentheses as (Gusfield, 1997) or, if the author’s
name appears in the text itself, as Gusfield (1997). 3.8 Copyright
Citations in parentheses should not be used as lin- EAMT 2014 requires a copyright license state-
guistic phrases; for example, instead of “(Gusfield, ment. This should be inserted as an unnumbered
1997) argues that . . . ” say “Gusfield (1997) argues footnote on the first column of the first page. The
that . . . ”. Treat double authors as in (Aho and Ull- LATEX style file (and the Word template) adds copy-
man, 1972), but write as in (Chandra et al., 1981) right statement automatically. Refer to the style
when more than two authors are involved. Append file for instructions to change this if required.
lowercase letters to the year in cases of ambiguity
as in (Gledson and Keane, 2008a). Collapse multi- 3.9 Graphics
ple citations in parenthesis as in (Gusfield, 1997; Illustrations: Place figures, tables, and photo-
Aho and Ullman, 1972) and like this for multi- graphs in the paper near where they are first dis-
ple citations with the same-named author: (Tam cussed, rather than at the end, if possible. Wide
and Schultz, 2006, 2007; Gledson and Keane, illustrations may run across both columns. Do
2008a,b). not use colour illustrations as they may reproduce
References: Gather the full set of references to- poorly.
gether under the heading References; place the Captions: Provide a caption for every illustra-
section before any Appendices, unless they con- tion; number each one sequentially in the form:
tain references. Arrange the references alphabet- “Figure 1. Caption of the Figure.”, “Table 1. Cap-
ically by the first author’s last-name, rather than tion of the Table.” Type the captions of the figures
by order of occurrence in the text, and invert the and tables below the body, using 11-point text.
first-name and last-name of the first author (only).
4 Length of Submission
Provide as complete a citation as possible, using
a consistent format, such as the one for Compu- Unless otherwise specified, the maximum length
tational Linguistics or the one in the Publication is 8 (eight) pages. The page limit should be ob-
Manual of the American Psychological Associa- served strictly. All illustrations, references, and
tion (American Psychological Association, 1983). appendices must be accommodated within these
Use of full names for authors rather than initials is page limits, following the formatting instructions
preferred. Use full names for journals and confer- given in the present document.
ences, not abbreviations (for example “45th Meet-
ing of the Association for Computational Linguis-
tics”, not “ACL07”). References
The LATEX2e and BibTEX style files provided Aho, Alfred V. and Jeffrey D. Ullman. 1972. The
roughly fit the American Psychological Associa- Theory of Parsing, Translation and Compiling, vol-
ume 1. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
tion format, allowing regular citations, short cita-
tions and multiple citations as described above. American Psychological Association. 1983. Publica-
Appendices: Appendices, if any, directly follow tions Manual. American Psychological Association,
Washington, DC.
the text and the references (but see above). Letter
them in sequence and provide an informative title: Association for Computing Machinery. 1983. Comput-
Appendix A. Title of Appendix. ing Reviews, 24(11):503–512.
Acknowledgement section should go as a last Chandra, Ashok K., Dexter C. Kozen, and Larry J.
section immediately before the references. Do not Stockmeyer. 1981. Alternation. Journal of the
number the acknowledgement section. Association for Computing Machinery, 28(1):114–
133.
3.7 Footnotes Gledson, Anne, and John Keane. 2008a. Mea-
suring Topic Homogeneity and its Application
Footnotes: Put footnotes at the bottom of the page to Dictionary-Based Word-Sense Disambiguation.
and use 9-point font. They may be numbered or re- Coling 2008, 22nd International Conference on
ferred to by asterisks or other symbols.1 Footnotes Computational Linguistics, Manchester, UK. 273–
280.
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This is how a footnote should appear. Note the line separating the footnotes from the text.
Gledson, Anne, and John Keane. 2008b. Using Web-
Search Results to Measure Word-group Similar-
ity. Coling 2008, 22nd International Conference on
Computational Linguistics, Manchester, UK. 281–
288.
Gusfield, Dan. 1997. Algorithms on Strings, Trees
and Sequences. Cambridge University Press, Cam-
bridge, UK.
Tam, Yik-Cheung and Tanja Schultz. 2006. Unsu-
pervised Language Model Adaptation Using Latent
Semantic Marginals. Interspeech 2006 – ICSLP,
Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language
Processing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, paper 1705-
Thu1A2O.2.
Tam, Yik-Cheung and Tanja Schultz. 2007. Correlated
Latent Semantic Model for Unsupervised Language
Model Adaptation. Proceedings of ICASSP 2007,
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and
Signal Processing, Honolulu, Hawaii, Vol. IV, 41–
44.