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39 version 16 (MacOS Catalina), MS Office
40 Professional Plus 2013 (Windows 10 Enterprise),
41 and Microsoft Office 365 (Windows 10
42 Educational Version).
Anonymous NLPAICS submission
43 3 MS Word formatting instructions
44 3.1 File Format

Type of Text Font Size Style

paper title 15 pt bold
2 Abstract
author names 12 pt bold
3 This document is a supplement to the author affiliation 12 pt
4 general guidelines for *NLPAICS the word “Abstract” 12 pt bold
5 authors. It contains instructions for using section titles 12 pt bold
6 the Microsoft Word template for document text 11 pt
7 NLPAICS conferences. The document captions 10 pt
8 itself conforms to its specifications and is abstract text 10 pt
9 therefore an example of what your
bibliography 10 pt
10 manuscript should look like. These
11 instructions should be used both for papers footnotes 9 pt
12 submitted for review and for final versions
13 of accepted papers. Table 1: Font guide.

14 1 Introduction 45 Lines should be justified, with even spacing

46 between margins (Ctrl+J). Authors are encouraged
15 These instructions are for authors submitting pa-
47 to use Paragraph spacing at Multiple, 1.05 pt, with
16 pers to *NLPAICS conferences using Microsoft
48 Font character spacing condensed with kerning of
17 Word. They are not self-contained. All authors
49 0.1pt, and Margins at 0.98 in, for consistency with
18 must follow the general instructions for
50 A4 paper and LaTeX-formatted documents. Go to
19 *NLPAICS proceedings,1 and should then consult
51 Format, Document, Page Setup, and ensure A4 is
20 this document for additional instructions specific
52 selected.
21 to Microsoft Word (MS Word).
22 All formatting is made available in the MS 53 3.2 Fonts
23 Word Styles in this template (NLPAICS 2024
54 For uniformity, Times font should be used. If
24 Proceedings Template.docx). In newer
55 Times is not available, you may use Times New
25 versions of MS Word, click Home, then expand
56 Roman or Computer Modern Roman.
26 the Styles tile by clicking the diagonal arrow on
57 Table 1 specifies what font sizes and styles
27 the lower left corner. This should open all styles in
58 must be used for each type of text in the
28 the template for you to apply to your document as
59 manuscript.
29 needed. Otherwise, you may expose the Styles
30 following the instructions provided at: 60 3.3 Ruler
31 https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/
32 hub/2010/11/22/view-and-edit-styles- 61 In this Word template, the rule is displayed only in
33 quickly-in-word-2010/ 62 the left margin, using the “Line Numbers” feature
34 If the paper is accepted, remove the header, 63 (available under Layout / Line Numbers /
35 footer (page numbers), any line numbering, and 64 Continuous). The ruler should be disabled for the
36 the ruler for the final version. 65 final copy. You may find the ruler for the right
66 column is clipped by the left-column text in MS
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67 Word, but we have found that when a PDF is
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 69 3.4 Footnotes
70 Footnotes are inserted using Insert / Footnote…
71 URLs should be added as Hyperlinks and
72 formatted in 10pt Courier New font without
73 underlining.

74 3.5 Figures and tables

75 Creating: To create a new Figure or Table, insert
76 a Text Box where you want it to appear (generally,
77 centered at the top of a column close to where it is
78 referred to) and then fill it in with the Figure (or
79 Table). Highlight and right click to add Caption,
80 with the NLPAICS Caption style (or NLPAICS
81 Caption Long style for multi-line captions), which Figure 1: A figure with a caption that runs for more
82 places 10 pt below and above the caption. than one line.
83 Numbering: To update numbering, highlight104 This is an example reference to Figure 1.
84 all the relevant text (e.g., Ctrl-A + F9). This will
105 3.6 Hyperlinks
85 update all the numbering applicable to tables,
86 figures, equations, and headings. 106 Within-document and external hyperlinks are
87 Cross-referencing: To add a cross reference to107 indicated with Dark Blue text, Color Hex
88 a figure or table: 108 #000099.

89  Place the mouse pointer at the location109 3.7 References

90 where you wish to add the cross-reference. 110 To create hyperlinks between citations and
111 references, as you insert each full reference in the
91  Click on the Insert menu, (then click
112 References section, highlight it and then select
92 Reference), and then Cross-reference in
113 Insert, Bookmark. Link back to the reference from
93 the Links panel.
114 its citations in the text by highlight the citation,
94  In the Cross-reference dialog box, click the115 right clicking, and selecting Insert, Cross-
95 caption to which you are building the text116 Reference, then selecting the Bookmark you’ve
96 reference. 117 saved. Highlight the citation again to give make it
118 dark blue (included in this theme), if it is not
97  For a figure, under Reference Type, click119 automatically applied. If there are problems
98 Figure. 120 saving the hyperlinks when you convert the
121 document to PDF, use an online converter such as
99  Under Insert Reference To, click Only122 http://go4convert.com.
100 Label and Number, then click OK.
123 3.8 Citations
101  As much as possible, fonts in figures should
124 Citations can be created by creating in-document
102 conform to the document fonts (this is not
103 the case in the example figure). 125 hyperlinks to bookmarks you’ve created. Go to
126 Insert / Hyperlink / This Document / Bookmarks,
127 and select your bookmark.

128 3.9 Equations

129 An example equation is shown below:
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130 A=π r (1

131 To add new equations, authors are encouraged to

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

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136 Note: this will only update the number to the right177 American Psychological Association. 1983.
137 of the equation; to update numbering within the 178 Publications Manual. American Psychological
138 text you must create a cross-reference. 179 Association, Washington, DC.
139 Cross-referencing: To create a cross-reference180 Ashok K. Chandra, Dexter C. Kozen, and Larry J.
140 for an equation: 181 Stockmeyer. 1981. Alternation. Journal of the
182 Association for Computing Machinery, 28(1):114-
141  Create a bookmark for it. 183 133. https://doi.org/10.1145/322234.32224.
184 Association for Computing Machinery. 1983.
142  Select the number to the right of the185 Computing Reviews, 24(11):503-512.
143 equation. Go to Insert, Bookmark (in the
144 Links panel), and then create a name for186 James Goodman, Andreas Vlachos, and Jason
145 your equation. Press Add to create the187 Naradowsky. 2016. Noise reduction and targeted
188 exploration in imitation learning for abstract
146 bookmark.
189 meaning representation parsing. In Proceedings of
190 the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for
147  To refer back, place the mouse pointer at the191 Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long
148 location where you wish to add the cross192 Papers). Association for Computational
149 reference. 193 Linguistics, pages 1–11.
194 https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/P16-1001.
150  Go to Insert, Cross-reference (in the Links
151 panel). In the dialogue box, select195 Dan Gusfield. 1997. Algorithms on Strings, Trees and
152 Bookmark and Bookmark Text from each196 Sequences. Cambridge University Press,
197 Cambridge, UK.
153 dropdown list. Uncheck Insert as
154 Hyperlink, then click OK. 198 Mary Harper. 2014. Learning from 26 languages: Pro-
199 gram management and science in the babel program.
155  This will make it such that whenever a new200 In Proceedings of COLING 2014, the 25th
156 equation is added, the references to the201 International Conference on Computational
157 equation will be updated when Ctrl-A + F9202 Linguistics: Technical Papers. Dublin City
158 is pressed. 203 University and Association for Computational
204 Linguistics, page 1.
159  This an example cross-reference to 205 http://aclweb.org/anthology/C14-1001.
160 Equation 1. 206 Alexander V. Mamishev and Murray Sargent. 2013.
207 Creating Research and Scientific Documents Using
161 3.10 Appendices 208 Microsoft Word. Microsoft Press, Redmond, WA.
162 Appendices, if any, directly follow the text and the209 Alexander V. Mamishev and Sean D. Williams. 2010.
163 references. Letter them in sequence and provide210 Technical Writing for Teams: The STREAM Tools
164 an informative title: Appendix A. Title of211 Handbook. Wiley-IEEE Press, Hoboken, NJ.
165 Appendix. 212 Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli and Joel R. Tetreault.
213 2015. Yara parser: A fast and accurate depen-
166 4 MS Word STREAM Tools 214 dency parser. Computing Research Repository,
215 arXiv:1503.06733. Version 2
167 This Microsoft Word file was updated in 2016
168 with STREAM Tools, designed for creating well-216 A Appendices
169 formatted reports and papers with Microsoft Word
170 (Mamishev, 2010; Mamishev, 2013). 217 Appendices are added after the References section
218 by restarting the header numbering using style “A,
171 Acknowledgments 219 B, C”.
172 An example acknowledgment.
220 B Supplementary Material
173 References
221 Supplementary material also be included with the
174 Alfred. V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman. 1972. The222 Appendices.
175 Theory of Parsing, Translation and Compiling,
176 volume 1. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.