1 33 If the paper is accepted, remove the header,

34 footer (page numbers), any line numbering, and

Instructions for
35 the ruler for*ACL Proceedings
the final version.

36 2 Rabab
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Alaman,
37 This template had been tested with MS Word
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38 version 16 (MacOS Catalina), MS Office
39 Professional Plus 2013 (Windows 10 Enterprise),
40 and Microsoft Office 365 (Windows 10
41 Educational Version).
Anonymous ACL submission
Type of Text Font Size Style
paper title 15 pt bold
author names 12 pt bold
author affiliation 12 pt
the word “Abstract” 12 pt bold
section titles 12 pt bold
2 Abstract
document text 11 pt
3 This document is a supplement to the captions 10 pt
4 general guidelines for *ACL authors. abstract text 10 pt
5 It contains instructions for using the bibliography 10 pt
6 Microsoft Word template for ACL footnotes 9 pt
7 conferences. The document itself
8 conforms to its own specifications, and is Table 1: Font guide.
9 therefore an example of what your
10 manuscript should look like. These
11 instructions should be used both for papers
12 submitted for review and for final versions 42 3 Corpus
13 of accepted papers.
43 3.1 Corpus Collection
14 1 Introduction 44 Lines should be justified, with even spacing
45 between margins (Ctrl+J). Authors are encouraged
15 These instructions are for authors submitting pa- 46 to use Paragraph spacing at Multiple, 1.05 pt, with
16 pers to *ACL conferences using Microsoft Word. 47 Font character spacing condensed with kerning of
17 They are not self-contained. All authors must 48 0.1pt, and Margins at 0.98 in, for consistency with
18 follow the general instructions for *ACL 49 A4 paper and LaTeX-formatted documents. Go to
19 proceedings,1 and should then consult this 50 Format, Document, Page Setup, and ensure A4 is
20 document for additional instructions specific to 51 selected.
21 Microsoft Word (MS Word).
22 All formatting is made available in the MS 52 3.2 Corpus Description
23 Word Styles in this template (acl.docx). In 53 For uniformity, Times font should be used. If
24 newer versions of MS Word, click Home, then 54 Times is not available, you may use Times New
25 expand the Styles tile by clicking the diagonal 55 Roman or Computer Modern Roman.
26 arrow on the lower left corner. This should open 56 Table 1 specifies what font sizes and styles
27 all styles in the template for you to apply to your 57 must be used for each type of text in the
28 document as needed. Otherwise, you may expose 58 manuscript.
29 the Styles following the instructions provided at:
30 https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/ 59 3.3 Corpus annotation
31 hub/2010/11/22/view-and-edit-styles-
32 quickly-in-word-2010/ 60 In this Word template, the rule is displayed only in
61 the left margin, using the “Line Numbers” feature
62 (available under Layout / Line Numbers /
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2 http://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/form 63 Continuous). The ruler should be disabled for the
3 atting.html 64 final copy. You may find the ruler for the right

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 65 column is clipped by the left-column text in MS
66 Word, but we have found that when a PDF is
67 generated, it displays correctly.

68 3.4 Corpus statistics

69 Footnotes are inserted using Insert / Footnote…
70 URLs should be added as Hyperlinks and
71 formatted in 10pt Courier New font without
72 underlining.

73 4 Result
74 Creating: To create a new Figure or Table, insert
75 a Text Box where you want it to appear (generally,
76 centered at the top of a column close to where it is Figure 1: A figure with a caption that runs for more
77 referred to) and then fill it in with the Figure (or than one line.
78 Table). Highlight and right click to add Caption,103 This is an example reference to Figure 1.
79 with the ACL Caption style (or ACL Caption
80 Long style for multi-line captions), which places104 4.1 Model selection
81 10 pt below and above the caption. 105 Within-document and external hyperlinks are
82 Numbering: To update numbering, highlight106 indicated with Dark Blue text, Color Hex
83 all the relevant text (e.g., Ctrl-A + F9). This will107 #000099.
84 update all the numbering applicable to tables,
85 figures, equations, and headings. 108 4.2 Corpus evaluation
86 Cross-referencing: To add a cross reference to109 To create hyperlinks between citations and
87 a figure or table: 110 references, as you insert each full reference in the
111 References section, highlight it and then select
88  Place the mouse pointer at the location
89 where you wish to add the cross-reference. 112 Insert, Bookmark. Link back to the reference from
113 its citations in the text by highlight the citation,
90  Click on the Insert menu, (then click114 right clicking, and selecting Insert, Cross-
91 Reference), and then Cross-reference in115 Reference, then selecting the Bookmark you’ve
92 the Links panel. 116 saved. Highlight the citation again to give make it
117 dark blue (included in this theme), if it is not
93  In the Cross-reference dialog box, click the118 automatically applied. If there are problems
94 caption to which you are building the text119 saving the hyperlinks when you convert the
95 reference. 120 document to PDF, use an online converter such as
121 http://go4convert.com.
96  For a figure, under Reference Type, click
97 Figure. 122 4.3 Software and tools

98  Under Insert Reference To, click Only123 Citations can be created by creating in-document
99 Label and Number, then click OK. 124 hyperlinks to bookmarks you’ve created. Go to
125 Insert / Hyperlink / This Document / Bookmarks,
100  As much as possible, fonts in figures should126 and select your bookmark.
101 conform to the document fonts (this is not
102 the case in the example figure). 127 4.4 Equations
128 An example equation is shown below:
129 A=π r 2 (1

130 To add new equations, authors are encouraged to

131 copy this existing equation line, and then replace
132 with the new equation. The numbering and
133 alignment of equation line elements is automatic.
134 To update equation numbering, press Ctrl-A + F9.

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135 Note: this will only update the number to the right176 American Psychological Association. 1983.
136 of the equation; to update numbering within the 177 Publications Manual. American Psychological
137 text you must create a cross-reference. 178 Association, Washington, DC.
138 Cross-referencing: To create a cross-reference179 Ashok K. Chandra, Dexter C. Kozen, and Larry J.
139 for an equation: 180 Stockmeyer. 1981. Alternation. Journal of the
181 Association for Computing Machinery, 28(1):114-
140  Create a bookmark for it. 182 133. https://doi.org/10.1145/322234.32224.
183 Association for Computing Machinery. 1983.
141  Select the number to the right of the184 Computing Reviews, 24(11):503-512.
142 equation. Go to Insert, Bookmark (in the
143 Links panel), and then create a name for185 James Goodman, Andreas Vlachos, and Jason
144 your equation. Press Add to create the186 Naradowsky. 2016. Noise reduction and targeted
187 exploration in imitation learning for abstract
145 bookmark.
188 meaning representation parsing. In Proceedings of
189 the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for
146  To refer back, place the mouse pointer at the190 Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long
147 location where you wish to add the cross191 Papers). Association for Computational
148 reference. 192 Linguistics, pages 1–11.
193 https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/P16-1001.
149  Go to Insert, Cross-reference (in the Links
150 panel). In the dialogue box, select194 Dan Gusfield. 1997. Algorithms on Strings, Trees and
151 Bookmark and Bookmark Text from each195 Sequences. Cambridge University Press,
196 Cambridge, UK.
152 dropdown list. Uncheck Insert as
153 Hyperlink, then click OK. 197 Mary Harper. 2014. Learning from 26 languages: Pro-
198 gram management and science in the babel program.
154  This will make it such that whenever a new199 In Proceedings of COLING 2014, the 25th
155 equation is added, the references to the200 International Conference on Computational
156 equation will be updated when Ctrl-A + F9201 Linguistics: Technical Papers. Dublin City
157 is pressed. 202 University and Association for Computational
203 Linguistics, page 1.
158  This an example cross-reference to 204 http://aclweb.org/anthology/C14-1001.
159 Equation 1. 205 Alexander V. Mamishev and Murray Sargent. 2013.
206 Creating Research and Scientific Documents Using
160 4.5 Appendices 207 Microsoft Word. Microsoft Press, Redmond, WA.
161 Appendices, if any, directly follow the text and the208 Alexander V. Mamishev and Sean D. Williams. 2010.
162 references. Letter them in sequence and provide209 Technical Writing for Teams: The STREAM Tools
163 an informative title: Appendix A. Title of210 Handbook. Wiley-IEEE Press, Hoboken, NJ.
164 Appendix. 211 Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli and Joel R. Tetreault.
212 2015. Yara parser: A fast and accurate depen-
165 5 Discussion 213 dency parser. Computing Research Repository,
214 arXiv:1503.06733. Version 2
166 This Microsoft Word file was updated in 2016
167 with STREAM Tools, designed for creating well-215 A Appendices
168 formatted reports and papers with Microsoft Word
169 (Mamishev, 2010; Mamishev, 2013). 216 Appendices are added after the References section
217 by restarting the header numbering using style “A,
170 6 Conclusion 218 B, C”.
171 An example acknowledgment.
219 B Supplementary Material
172 References
220 Supplementary material also be included with the
173 Alfred. V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman. 1972. The221 Appendices.
174 Theory of Parsing, Translation and Compiling,
175 volume 1. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.