Instructions for Submitting a Paper

Formatting

Each long paper submission consists of a paper of up to nine (9) pages of content and any number of additional pages containing references only, together with optional supplementary material as described below.

Each short paper submission consists of a paper of up to four (4) pages of content and 2 pages of additional pages containing references only, together with optional supplementary material as described below. Each short paper submission will be reviewed by at least two program committee members.

For both long and short submissions, accepted papers will be presented orally or as a poster (at the discretion of the program chairs). There will be no distinction in the proceedings between papers presented orally or as posters.

Both long and short papers should follow the two-column format of ACL 2014 proceedings. Please use the official ACL 2014 style files for the paper and ensure that your paper setting is A4 size (if using Latex, change \documentclass[11pt]{article} to \documentclass[11pt|a4paper]{article} ). We reserve the right to reject submissions if the paper does not conform to these styles, including letter size and font size restrictions.

As reviewing will be blind, the submission should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith (1991) previously showed ...”. Submissions that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Separate author identification information is required as part of the on-line submission process.

Supplementary material

The supplementary material should be supplementary (rather than central) to the paper. It may include explanations or details of proofs or derivations that do not fit into the paper, lists of features or feature templates, sample inputs and outputs for a system, pseudo-code or source code, and data. The paper should not rely on the supplementary material: while the paper may refer to and cite the supplementary material and the supplementary material will be available to reviewers, they will not be asked to review or even download the supplementary material.

The supplementary material must be in the form of a single .zip or a .tgz archive file with a maximum size of 10MB; otherwise there are no constraints on its format.

We are now accepting long and short paper submissions on SoftConf: www.softconf.com/emnlp2014/papers/.

Important dates

• Paper submission deadline: June 2, 2014

All deadlines refer to 11:59pm (UTC/GMT -11 hours)