EMNLP 2001 -- Instructions for Authors

The printing of the proceedings is being handled by the Publication Chair, David Yarowsky, yarowsky@cs.jhu.edu.

Authors should use one of the following stylesheets, which are identical to those used for NAACL-2001 (and different from the submission version).
- Latex:
  - http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/naacl2001.sty (click here for local copy)
  - http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/acl.bst (click here for local copy)
  - http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/sample.tex (click here for local copy)
  - http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/sample.bib (click here for local copy)
- Microsoft Word Template file:
  - http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/naacl-2001.dot (click here for local copy)
Authors must print a Copyright Transfer Agreement (available from http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/copyright.txt, complete it and return it along with their final camera-ready copy to the address given below.
Papers should be prepared according to the following guidelines The provided stylesheets should meet these guidelines and should be used in all cases unless this poses a significant hardship.
- The maximum length of a paper is 10 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.
- The free 10 page allowance is a traditional SIGDAT/EMNLP luxury that should not be abused by wasting these pages with large quantities of blank space. Thus any page exceeding the standard 8 pages should be relatively full (i.e. more than 1 column of text).
- Use Letter size paper (8.5 x 11 inches). If you have problems printing on Letter size paper, please send email to yarowsky@cs.jhu.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.
- 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.
Be warned that use of the provided style files on some systems may produce results that deviate from these specfications (although this is unlikely). 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. If you have any questions, please contact yarowsky@cs.jhu.edu.
Two hard copies of your final, camera-ready paper must reach us no later than Thursday May 3 2001, and we would prefer receiving them in advance of this date.
The mailing address is:
Prof. David Yarowsky, EMNLP Publications Chair
Dept of Computer Science - NEB 224
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218
USA
+1 410-516-5372 (for questions and FedEx contact)

Due to the very short production schedule, the May 3rd submission deadline cannot be extended for any reason.
Also, EMNLP-2001, NAACL, and the associated workshops will be producing a joint CDROM containing PDF files of the papers in all of the proceedings. Thus we are requesting that you please submit a PDF file of your paper via the following very simple submission interface:
http://nlp.cs.jhu.edu/~sigdat01/
This interface was used last year with no problems and it should take you only a few minutes. If for whatever reason you cannot create a PDF file, please submit a postscript file using this interface and also send David Yarowsky (yarowsky@cs.jhu.edu) email directly stating that you are submitting postscript.
The PDF file MUST BE SUBMITTED by 11:00 PM EST on WEDNESDAY May 2nd! This should be after the latest FedEx deadlines of everyone submitting hardcopy. Please note EVERYONE MUST STILL SUBMIT PHYSICAL CAMERA-READY COPIES by the previously announced May 3 deadline. The PDF files for the CDROM are in addition to the physical papers, not a substitute.