Long talks are allotted 20 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions from the audience. Short talks are allotted 10 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions. Please ensure that your presentation does not exceed the allotted length.

Please bring your PowerPoint presentation file with you on a CD or USB memory stick and submit presentation material to the operator in session room at least 20 minutes prior to the scheduled start of the session. The operator will load the presentation files to the notebook PC.

Each session room will be equipped with the following equipment.
- Laptop computer running MS-Office PowerPoint 2007 operated in Windows XP, equipped with compact disk reader(CD & DVD) and USB drive
- One switcher with four RGB inputs
- One smart pointer and mouse
- One bean projector (RGB Port) *** exect Tutorials and Workshops
- One Screen

The standard electricity supply is 220-volts AC at 60Hz.

To avoid frequently occurring technical problems in the presentation, it is discouraged to bring your own computer (especially Macintosh laptop) unless your presentation requires it for special software and/or hardware. If it is unavoidable to use your own laptop, you should bring all the necessary adaptors which are compatible with our beam projector (RGB port).

	Latex	MS Word
	acl2012.tex	acl2012.doc
	acl2012.sty	acl2012.dot
	acl2012.pdf	acl2012.pdf
	acl.bst

• NOTE: Style files have changed from original call for papers

	PDF	MS Word
	ACL2012.copyright.pdf	ACLl2012.copyright.doc

Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content and an unlimited number of reference pages, and short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content and an unlimited number of reference pages.
Those papers that had software and/or dataset submitted for the review process, should also submit it with the camera-ready. Besides, the software and dataset should not be anonymous, and their size should not exceed 10MB.
Both long and short paper submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL 2012 proceedings.
We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files tailored for this year's conference.
All submissions must conform to the official ACL 2012 style guidelines and they must be electronic in PDF.
It is very important to specify US Letter paper size. The page limit has to be strictly observed. DO NOT include page numbers. They will be generated when compiling the proceedings. All camera-ready manuscripts should look like the sample PDF file, which also contains detailed formatting requirements.

Camera-Ready Deadline for Long Papers :	April 30, 2012 (11:59pm,PST)
Camera-Ready Deadline for Short Papers :	May 7, 2012 (11:59pm, PST)

Here is a list of the most important stylistic features to be checked before you submit your final camera-ready copy.
Failing to observe these instructions may result in re-submission. Remember to sign the copyright transfer agreement electronically or physically as well.

1. 1. Paper format: PDF.
2. 2. Non-English characters: embed all fonts when generating the PDF file.
3. 3. Paper size: US Letter (8.5 x 11.0 inches).
4. 4. Title
1. • Length: DO NOT exceed the left & right margins. Fold a long title into multiple lines if necessary.
2. • Capitalization: DO NOT FULLY CAPITALIZE THE TITLE LIKE THIS.
5. 5. Names of Authors:
1. • Capitalization: AUTHOR NAMES SHOULD NOT INCLUDE FULLY CAPITALIZED PARTS.
2. • Order: First Name First
3. • Consistency: Same as registered to the submission page; same spelling style in all accepted papers to avoid generating multiple author index entries for authors with more than one accepted paper
6. 6. Page numbers and running headers: DO NOT supply.
7. 7. Non-English terms: supply transliteration or translation or both as appropriate as possible.
8. 8. Font sizes, types, styles and line spacing: as specified in style file.
9. 9. Tables, Figures, Equations, Images: make small details clearly visible and add captions to each.
10. 10. References: sort in ascending order of family name of first authors and do not miss required information.
11. 11. Grammar: check common spelling and grammatical mistakes carefully.

You may upload your paper via the START Conference Manager:
Long papers: https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/papers/
Short papers: https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/shortpapers/
Please double check that all meta-data (author names, affiliations, paper title, etc) are entered into the system correctly and exactly as they appear on the paper, especially if they contain non-ASCII characters.

The paper should be improved to address the comments of the reviewers, and in any other way that you see fit. The final version should, of course, not be anonymous:

• Include the authors' names and affiliations under the title
• De-anonymize references to your own work
• Add acknowledgments where appropriate

The file must be in Portable Document Format (PDF) on US Letter paper (8.5 x 11 inches).

Please check the paper size by viewing your document in Acrobat Reader. The bottom of the window should show the size as "8.5 x 11 in" or "US Letter".
If your paper uses Asian fonts, please ensure that they are encoded/embedded in the PDF file so that they can be displayed by non-Asian versions of the PDF reader. (Asian versions ship with a larger set of default fonts.) See Adobe's discussion of this issue, which unfortunately does not discuss LaTeX. Suggested diagnostics and solutions are welcomed.

When you submit the paper, you will be asked to sign electronically (via the START Conference Manager) or physically the ACL Copyright Transfer Agreement on behalf of all authors.
Before signing this form, please confirm with your co-authors (and, if applicable, your and their employers) that they authorize you to sign on their behalf.

Please note that the publications of ACL 2012 will be publicly available at ACL Anthology (http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/) on July 2nd, 2012, one week before the start of the conference. Since some of the authors may have plans to file patents related to their papers in the conference, we are sending this reminder that July 2nd, 2012 may be considered to be the official publication date, instead of the opening day of the conference.

Then please edit those metadata fields when you upload the camera-ready version, so that they will appear correctly in the table of contents, author index, conference schedule, etc. The program chairs and publication chairs should also be notified of such changes.