Instructions for CSSP 2015 Submissions

First Author
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Affiliation / Address line 2
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email@domain

Second Author
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email@domain

Abstract specifications. Authors are required to provide

a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of
This document contains the instructions for their papers. The proceedings will be printed
preparing a camera-ready manuscript for the on A4 paper.
proceedings of CSSP-2015. The document
itself conforms to its own specifications, 3 General Instructions
and is therefore an example of what your
manuscript should look like. These Manuscripts must be in two-column format.
instructions should be used for both papers Exceptions to the two-column format include
submitted for review and for final versions the title, authors’ names and complete
of accepted papers. Authors are asked to addresses, which must be centered at the top of
conform to all the directions re-ported in the first page, and any full-width figures or
this document.
tables (see the guidelines in Subsection 3.5).
Type single-spaced. Start all pages directly
1 Credits under the top margin. See the guidelines later
This document has been adapted from the regarding formatting the first page.
instructions for ACL proceedings, including The manuscript should be printed single-sided
those for ACL-2012 by Maggie Li and Michael and its length should not exceed the maximum
White, those from ACL-2010 by Jing-Shing page limit described in Section 5. Do not
Chang and Philipp Koehn, those for ACL-2008 number the pages.
by Johanna D. Moore, Simone Teufel, James 3.1 Electronically-available resources
Allan, and Sadaoki Furui, those for ACL-2005
by Hwee Tou Ng and Kemal Oflazer, those for A Microsoft Word template file ([Link])
ACL-2002 by Eugene Charniak and Dekang is also available at the same URL. If you will
Lin, and earlier ACL and EACL formats. be using the Microsoft Word template, we
Those versions were written by several people, suggest that you anonymize your source file
including John Chen, Henry S. Thompson and so that the pdf produced does not retain
Donald Walker. Additional elements were your identity. This can be done by removing
taken from the formatting instructions of the any personal information from your source
International Joint Conference on Artificial document properties.
Intelligence.
3.2 Format of Electronic Manuscript
2 Introduction For the production of the electronic manuscript
you must use Adobe's Portable Document For-
The following instructions are directed to
mat (PDF). This format can be generated from
authors of papers submitted to CSSP-2015 or
postscript files. On Linux/Unix systems, you
accepted for publication in its proceedings. All
can use ps2pdf for this purpose. In Microsoft
authors are required to adhere to these
Windows, you can use Adobe's Distiller, or if 3.4 Fonts
you have cygwin installed, you can use dvipdf
For reasons of uniformity, Adobe's Times
or ps2pdf. Note that some word processing
Roman font should be used. In LATEX2e, this
programs generate PDF which may not include
all the necessary fonts (esp. tree diagrams, is accomplished by putting
symbols). When you print or create the PDF
\usepackage{times}
file, there is usually an option in your printer
\usepackage{latexsym}
setup to include none, all or just non-standard
fonts. Please make sure that you select the in the preamble. If Times Roman is
option of including ALL the fonts. Be-fore unavailable, use Computer Modern Roman
sending it, test your PDF by printing it from a
(LATEXe's default). Note that the latter is
computer different from the one where it was
created. Moreover, some word processor may about 10% less dense than Adobe's Times
generate very large postscript/PDF files, where Roman font.
each page is rendered as an image. Such
images may reproduce poorly. In this case, try Type of Font Size Style
alternative ways to obtain the postscript and/or Text
PDF. One way on some systems is to install a paper title 15 pt bold
driver for a postscript printer, send your author 12 pt bold
document to the printer specifying “Output to a names
file”, then convert the file to PDF. author 12 pt
It is of utmost importance to specify the A4 affiliation
format (21 cm  29.7 cm) when formatting the word 12 pt bold
the paper. When working with dvips, for “Abstract”
instance, one should specify -t a4. section 12 pt bold
Print-outs of the PDF file on A4 paper titles
should be identical to the hardcopy version. If document 11 pt
you cannot meet the above requirements about text
the production of your electronic submission, captions 11 pt
please contact the publication chairs above as abstract 10 pt
soon as possible. text
bibliograph 10 pt
3.3 Layout y
Format manuscripts two columns to a page, in footnotes 9 pt
the manner these instructions are formatted.
The exact dimensions for a page on A4 paper Table 1: Font guide
are:
 Left and right margins: 2.5 cm 3.5 The First Page
 Top margin: 2.5 cm Center the title across both columns. Use the
two-column format only when you begin the
 Bottom margin: 2.5 cm
abstract.
 Column width: 7.7 cm Title: Place the title centered at the top of
the first page, in a 15-point bold font. (For a
 Column height: 24.7 cm
complete guide to font sizes and styles, see
 Gap between columns: 0.6 cm Table 1) Long titles should be typed on two
Papers should not be submitted on any other lines without a blank line intervening. As
paper size. If you cannot meet the above reviewing will be double-blind, the submitted
requirements about the production of your version of the papers should not include the
electronic submission, please contact the authors’ names and affiliations.
publication chairs above as soon as possible. Do not format title and section headings in
all capitals as well except for proper names
(such as ‘BLEU’) that are conventionally in all
capitals.
 Abstract: Type the abstract at the beginning include the authors’ names and affiliations.
of the first column. The width of the abstract Furthermore, self-references that reveal the
text should be smaller than the width of the author’s identity, e.g.,
columns for the text in the body of the paper
by about 0.6 cm on each side. Center the word “We previously showed (Gusfield,
Abstract in a 12 point bold font above the 1997) ...”
body of the abstract. The abstract should be a
concise summary of the general thesis and should be avoided. Instead, use
conclusions of the paper. It should be no longer citations such as
than 200 words.
Text: Begin typing the main body of the text “Gusfield (1997) previously showed ... ”
immediately after the abstract, observing the
two-column format as shown in the present Please do not use anonymous
document. citations and do not include
Indent when starting a new paragraph. Use acknowledgements when submitting
11 points for text and subsection headings, 12 your papers. Papers that do not
points for section headings and 15 points for conform to these requirements may be
the title. rejected without review.
3.6 Sections References: Gather the full set of references
Headings: Type and label section and together under the heading References; place
subsection headings in the style shown on the the section before any Appendices, unless they
present document. Use numbered sections contain references. Arrange the references
(Arabic numerals) in order to facilitate cross alphabetically by first author, rather than by
references. Number subsections with the order of occurrence in the text. Provide as
section number and the subsection number complete a citation as possible, using a
separated by a dot, in Arabic numerals. Do not consistent format, such as the one for
number subsubsections. Computational Linguistics or the one in the
Citations: Citations within the text appear Publication Manual of the American
in parentheses as (Gusfield, 1997) or, if the Psychological Association (American
author's name appears in the text itself, as Psychological Association, 1983). Use of full
Gusfield (1997). Append lowercase letters to names for authors rather than initials is
the year in cases of ambiguities. Treat double preferred. A list of abbreviations for common
authors by using both authors’ last names (e.g., computer science journals can be found in the
(Aho and Ullman, 1972), but write as in ACM Computing Reviews (Association for
(Chandra et al., 1981) when more than two Computing Machinery, 1983).
authors are involved. Collapse multiple The LATEX2e and BibTEX style files
citations as in (Gusfield, 1997; Aho and provided roughly fit the American
Ullman, 1972). Also refrain from using full Psychological Association format, allowing
citations as sentence constituents. We suggest regular citations, short citations and multiple
that instead of citations as described above.
Appendices: Appendices, if any, directly
“(Gusfield, 1997) showed that ...” follow the text and the references (but see
above). Letter them in sequence and provide
you use an informative title: Appendix A. Title of
Appendix.
“Gusfield (1997) showed that ...” Acknowledgement sections should go as a
last section immediately before the references.
If you are using the provided LATEX2e and Do not number the acknowledgement section.
BibTEX style files, you can use the command
3.7 Footnotes
\newcite to get “author (year)” citations.
Footnotes: Put footnotes at the bottom of the
As reviewing will be double-blind, the page and use 9 points text. They may be
submitted version of the papers should not numbered or referred to by asterisks or other
symbols.1 Footnotes should be separated from Association for Computing Machinery. 1983.
the main text by a line.2 Computing Reviews, 24(11):503-512.
3.8 Graphics Ashok K. Chandra, Dexter C. Kozen, and Larry
[Link]. 1981. Alternation. Journal of the
Illustrations: Place figures, tables, and photo- Association for Computing Machinery,
graphs in the paper near where they are first 28(1):114-133.
discussed, rather than at the end, if possible.
Dan Gusfield. 1997. Algorithms on Strings,
Wide illustrations may run across both
columns. Color illustrations are discouraged, Trees and Sequences. Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge, UK.
unless you have verified that they will be
understandable when printed in black ink.
Captions: Provide a caption for
every illustration; number each one
sequentially in the form: “Figure 1.
Caption of the Figure.” “Table 1.
Caption of the Table.” Type the
captions of the figures and tables
below the body, using 11 point text.

4 Translation of non-English
Terms
It is also advised to supplement non-English
characters and terms with appropriate
transliterations and/or translations since not all
readers understand all such characters and
terms. Inline transliteration or translation can
be represented in the order of: original-form
transliteration “translation”.

5 Length of Submission
Long papers may consist of up to 5 pages of
content, plus one extra page for references.
Papers that do not conform to the specified
length and formatting requirements are subject
to be rejected without review.

Acknowledgments

Do not number the acknowledgment

section. Do not include this section
when submitting your paper for review.

References
Alfred. V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman. 1972. The
Theory of Parsing, Translation and
Compiling, volume 1. Prentice-Hall,
Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
American Psychological Association. 1983.
Publications Manual. American Psychological
Association, Washington, DC.
1This is how a footnote should appear.
2Note the line separating the footnotes from the
text.