The following
was the IWCS-5 call for papers.
Submission of full papers
Authors are asked to submit an original paper of maximally 14 pages by October 1, 2002.
Files should be prepared with LaTeX and initial submission should be in postscript
format. (For accepted papers we will need the LaTeX source code.) The page limit
presupposes the standard 11 point Computer Modern font and default LaTeX formatting. All papers
will be refereed by the programme committee.
There are two levels of acceptance:
- Acceptance of a long (30 min.) presentation. The paper will be published in the
proceedings, available at the time of the workshop.
- Acceptance of a flash (5 min.) presentation. Authors will be invited to give a poster
session and to send in a 3 page abstract, to be
published in the proceedings.
We aim at publishing a selection of accepted papers in book form.
Email your postscript file to .
Submission of poster abstracts
It is also possible to directly submit a 3 page abstract for a flash presentation
and a poster session. The abstract should be prepared with LaTeX (11 point
Computer Modern, default formatting). Email
the resulting
postscript file by 1 November 2002.
Final Papers
If your paper is accepted then please send us the LaTeX source of its final
version (14 pages, 11pt) before 1 December. For posters we need the
LaTeX source of your abstract (3 pages, 11pt) before that date.
Please make sure that your code gives a clean LaTeX run without any overfull
boxes (up to 3pts is acceptable). Also make sure that we get all files necessary
for compiling. Some guidelines for preparing your code are given below, but the main
thing is that it should be free of any elaborate LaTeX hacking.
Poster Format
The maximum size of a poster is 1 meter wide and 1.20 meter
high. There are no further constrictions on poster design.
Further guidelines
Since we will use the LaTeX source code of accepted papers for producing
the proceedings, please help us with the following to keep things technically
compatible and also to obtain a minimum
of uniformity throughout the collection:
- Please put all linguistic examples in the \enumsentence and
\eenumsentence environments
of Emma Pease's lingmacros.sty. Please do not use
any other example environment. The lingmacros.sty style
file is documented in lingmacros-manual.tex.
- Do not use any LaTeX commands that change the default font or default
format of your document. So, please do not change \textwidth, \textheight, or \baselineskip, for
example. Also, refrain from using style files that change default lengths, such
as a4.sty.
- Keep the number of style files you are using to an absolute minimum and,
preferably, in addition to lingmacros.sty use only style files that come with
the standard LaTeX distribution. In that way the chance that style files of different
authors turn out incompatible is diminished.
- Please prefix your initials to all macros you define. This will diminish
the chance of conflicting macros. In order to keep your code legible, use as
few macros as you possibly can. It is often a good idea to simply expand macros.
- Make sure that your files only contain `low-ascii' characters and that any diacritics
you need are introduced using explicit LaTeX commands. This is relevant if your native language
contains diacritics and your local TeX system allows you to use higher ascii for them.
- It would be helpful if you could prepare your bibliography using BiBTeX and if you could send us
your .bib file.
Thanks!
LaTeX links
If you are a newbie to LaTeX, it may be worthwile to check out the
LaTeX for Linguists page
maintained at Essex. We found it very helpful. The
TeX/LaTeX
documentation page at Penn is also aimed at linguists and gives sound advice. The
archives of the Ling-TeX mailing
list contain many useful discussions. General information
about TeX and LaTeX can be found in the pages of the
TeX Users Group. Style files etc. can
usually be found at CTAN. The
TeX Catalogue Online
is a user-friendly interface to CTAN, with short descriptions
of the packages.