Instructions for CLiC.it-2017 Proceedings

Your PDF can be prepared using LaTeX with the CLIC.it-2017 style file (clic2017.sty, adapted from the official ACL 2014 style file) and the ACL bibliography style (acl.bst).

You can alternatively use Microsoft Word to produce your PDF file. In this case, we strongly recommend the use of the Word template file (clic2017.dot) on the CLIC.it-2017 website.

For the production of the electronic manuscript you must use Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF). PDF files are usually produced from LaTeX using the pdflatex command. If your version of LaTeX produces Postscript files, you can convert these into PDF using ps2pdf or dvipdf. On Windows, you can also use Adobe Distiller or PDFCreator to generate PDF.

Please make sure that your PDF file includes all the necessary fonts (especially tree diagrams, symbols, and fonts with Asian characters). When you print or create the PDF file, there is usually an option in your printer setup to include none, all or just non-standard fonts. Please make sure that you select the option of including ALL the fonts. Before sending it, test your PDF by printing it from a computer different from the one where it was created. Moreover, some word processors may generate very large PDF files, where each page is rendered as an image. Such images may reproduce poorly. In this case, try alternative ways to obtain the PDF. One way on some systems is to install a driver for a postscript printer, send your document to the printer specifying “Output to a file”, then convert the file to PDF.

It is of utmost importance to specify the A4 format (21 cm x 29.7 cm) when formatting the paper. Print-outs of the PDF file on A4 paper should be identical to the hardcopy version. If you cannot meet the above requirements about the production of your electronic submission, please contact the publication chairs as soon as possible.

Format manuscripts two columns to a page, in the manner these instructions are formatted. The exact dimensions for a page on A4 paper are:

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  Left and right margins: 2.5 cm

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  Top margin: 2.5 cm

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  Bottom margin: 2.5 cm

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  Column width: 7.7 cm

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  Column height: 24.7 cm

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  Gap between columns: 0.6 cm

For reasons of uniformity, Adobe’s Times Roman font should be used. In LaTeX2e this is accomplished by putting

\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{latexsym}

in the preamble. If Times Roman is unavailable, use Computer Modern Roman (LaTeX2e’s default). Note that the latter is about 10% less dense than Adobe’s Times Roman font.

Manuscripts can be written either in Italian or English. It is advised to supplement characters and terms not belonging to the chosen language 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”.

Center the title, author’s name(s) and affiliation(s) across both columns. Do not use footnotes for affiliations. Do not include the paper ID number assigned during the submission process. Use the two-column format only when you begin the abstract.

Title: Place the title centered at the top of the first page, in a 15-point bold font. (For a complete guide to font sizes and styles, see Table 1) Long titles should be typed on two lines without a blank line intervening. Approximately, put the title at 2.5 cm from the top of the page, followed by a blank line, then the author’s names(s), and the affiliation on the following line. Do not use only initials for given names (middle initials are allowed). Do not format surnames in all capitals (e.g., use “Schlangen” not “SCHLANGEN”). 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. The affiliation should contain the author’s complete address, and if possible, an electronic mail address. Start the body of the first page 7.5 cm from the top of the page.

The title, author names and addresses should be completely identical to those entered to the electronical paper submission website in order to maintain the consistency of author information among all publications of the conference. If they are different, the publication chairs may resolve the difference without consulting with you; so it is in your own interest to double-check that the information is consistent.

Abstract: Type the abstract at the beginning of the first column. The width of the abstract text should be smaller than the width of the columns for the text in the body of the paper by about 0.6 cm on each side. Center the word Abstract in a 12 point bold font above the body of the abstract. The abstract should be a concise summary of the general thesis and conclusions of the paper. It should be no longer than 200 words. The abstract text should be in 10 point font.

Authors are asked to write the abstract both in Italian and English. The abstract written in the language of the manuscript should be set above, followed by its translation in italics.

Text: Begin typing the main body of the text immediately after the abstract, observing the two-column format as shown in the present document. Do not include page numbers.

Indent when starting a new paragraph. Use 11 points for text and subsection headings, 12 points for section headings and 15 points for the title.

Headings: Type and label section and subsection headings in the style shown on the present document. Use numbered sections (Arabic numerals) in order to facilitate cross references. Number subsections with the section number and the subsection number separated by a dot, in Arabic numerals. Do not number subsubsections.

Citations: Citations within the text appear in parentheses as [Gusfield, 1997] or, if the author’s name appears in the text itself, as Gusfield [Gusfield, 1997]. Append lowercase letters to the year in cases of ambiguity. Treat double authors as in [Aho and Ullman, 1972], but write as in [Chandra et al., 1981] when more than two authors are involved. Collapse multiple citations as in [Gusfield, 1997, Aho and Ullman, 1972]. Also refrain from using full citations as sentence constituents. We suggest that instead of

“[Gusfield, 1997] showed that …”

you use

“Gusfield [Gusfield, 1997] showed that …”

If you are using the provided LaTeX and BibTeX style files, you can use the command \newcite to get “author (year)” citations.

As reviewing will not be double-blind, the submitted version of the papers should include the authors’ names and affiliations and self-references are allowed.

References: Gather the full set of references together under the heading References; place the section before any Appendices, unless they contain references. Arrange the references alphabetically by first author, rather than by order of occurrence in the text. Provide as complete a citation as possible, using a consistent format, such as the one for Computational Linguistics or the one in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association [American Psychological Associat5ion, 1983]. Use of full names for authors rather than initials is preferred. A list of abbreviations for common computer science journals can be found in the ACM Computing Reviews [Association for Computing Machinery, 1983].

The LaTeX and BibTeX style files provided roughly fit the American Psychological Association format, allowing regular citations, short citations and multiple citations as described above.

Appendices: Appendices, if any, directly follow the text and the references (but see above). Letter them in sequence and provide an informative title: Appendix A. Title of Appendix.

Footnotes: Put footnotes at the bottom of the page and use 9 points text. They may be numbered or referred to by asterisks or other symbols.¹¹1This is how a footnote should appear. Footnotes should be separated from the text by a line.²²2Note the line separating the footnotes from the text.

Illustrations: Place figures, tables, and photographs in the paper near where they are first discussed, rather than at the end, if possible. Wide illustrations may run across both columns. Color illustrations are discouraged, 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.