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Instructions
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37 This template had been tested with MS Word
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(MacOS Catalina), MS Office
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40 and Microsoft Office 365 (Windows 10
41 Educational Version).

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 ACL 2023 authors. the word “Abstract” 12 pt bold
5 It contains instructions for using the section titles 12 pt bold
6 Microsoft Word template for ACL. The document text 11 pt
7 document itself conforms to its own captions 10 pt
8 specifications, and is therefore an example abstract text 10 pt
9 of what your manuscript should look like.
bibliography 10 pt
10 These instructions should be used both for
11 papers submitted for review and for final footnotes 9 pt
12 versions of accepted papers.
Table 1: Font guide.
13 1 Introduction
14 These instructions are for authors submitting pa- 42 3 MS Word formatting instructions
15 pers to ACL using Microsoft Word. They are not
16 self-contained. All authors must follow the general 43 3.1 File Format
17 instructions for *ACL proceedings,1 as well as 44 Lines should be justified, with even spacing
18 guidelines set forth in the ACL 2023 call for 45 between margins (Ctrl+J). Authors are encouraged
19 papers.2 This document contains additional 46 to use Paragraph spacing at Multiple, 1.05 pt, with
20 instructions specific to Microsoft Word (MS 47 Font character spacing condensed with kerning of
21 Word). 48 0.1pt, and Margins at 0.98 in, for consistency with
22 All formatting is made available in the MS 49 A4 paper and LaTeX-formatted documents. Go to
23 Word Styles in this template (acl2023.docx). In 50 Format, Document, Page Setup, and ensure A4 is
24 newer versions of MS Word, click Home, then 51 selected.
25 expand the Styles tile by clicking the diagonal
26 arrow on the lower left corner. This should open 52 3.2 Fonts
27 all styles in the template for you to apply to your 53 For uniformity, Times font should be used. If
28 document as needed. Otherwise, you may expose 54 Times is not available, you may use Times New
29 the Styles following the instructions provided at: 55 Roman or Computer Modern Roman.
30 https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/ 56 Table 1 specifies what font sizes and styles
31 hub/2010/11/22/view-and-edit-styles- 57 must be used for each type of text in the
32 quickly-in-word-2010/
58 manuscript.

59 3.3 Ruler
60 In this Word template, the rule is displayed only in
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61 the left margin, using the “Line Numbers” feature
3 atting.html 62 (available under Layout / Line Numbers /
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https://2023. 63 Continuous). The ruler should be disabled for the
5 aclweb.org/calls/main_conference/ 64 final copy. You may find the ruler for the right

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66 Word, but we have found that when a PDF is
67 generated, it displays correctly.

68 3.4 Footnotes
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 3.5 Figures and tables

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 3.6 Hyperlinks
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 3.7 References
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
112 Insert, Bookmark. Link back to the reference from
89 where you wish to add the cross-reference.
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 3.8 Citations

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 3.9 Equations
128 An example equation is shown below:
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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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136 of the equation; to update numbering within the179 will be desk-rejected without review.
137 text you must create a cross-reference. 180 While we are open to different types of
138 Cross-referencing: To create a cross-reference181 limitations, just mentioning that a set of results
139 for an equation: 182 have been shown for English only probably does
183 not reflect what we expect. Mentioning that the
140  Create a bookmark for it. 184 method works mostly for languages with limited
185 morphology, like English, is a much better
141  Select the number to the right of the186 alternative. In addition, limitations such as low
142 equation. Go to Insert, Bookmark (in the187 scalability to long text, the requirement of large
143 Links panel), and then create a name for
188 GPU resources, or other things that inspire crucial
144 your equation. Press Add to create the
189 further investigation are welcome.
145 bookmark.
190 Ethics Statement
146  To refer back, place the mouse pointer at the
147 location where you wish to add the cross191 Scientific work published at ACL 2023 must
148 reference. 192 comply with the ACL Ethics Policy.3 We
193 encourage all authors to include an explicit ethics
149  Go to Insert, Cross-reference (in the Links194 statement on the broader impact of the work, or
150 panel). In the dialogue box, select195 other ethical considerations after the conclusion
151 Bookmark and Bookmark Text from each196 but before the references. The ethics statement
152 dropdown list. Uncheck Insert as197 will not count toward the page limit (8 pages for
153 Hyperlink, then click OK. 198 long, 4 pages for short papers).
154  This will make it such that whenever a new199 Acknowledgments
155 equation is added, the references to the
156 equation will be updated when Ctrl-A + F9200 This document has been adapted by Jordan Boyd-
157 is pressed. 201 Graber, Naoaki Okazaki, Anna Rogers from the
202 template for earlier ACL, EMNLP and NAACL
158  This an example cross-reference to203 proceedings, including those for EACL 2023 by
159 Equation 1. 204 Isabelle Augenstein and Andreas Vlachos and
205 EMNLP 2022 by Yue Zhang, Ryan Cotterell and
160 3.10 Appendices 206 Lea Frermann.
161 Appendices, if any, directly follow the text and the
162 references. Letter them in sequence and provide207 References
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164 Appendix. 209 framework for learning predictive structures from
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172 section titled “Limitations”, for discussing the220 Empirical Methods in Natural Language
173 limitations of the paper as a complement to the221 Processing, pages 876–885, Austin, Texas.
222 Association for Computational Linguistics.
174 discussion of strengths in the main text. This
175 section should occur after the conclusion, but
176 before the references. It will not count towards the
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257 A Appendices
258 Appendices are added after the References section
259 by restarting the header numbering using style “A,
260 B, C”.

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