Ahakim: New page: '''Summary''' This year, the paper proceedings are not longer printed. Only the cdrom proceedings are produced using a card-type USB memory stick. It is convenient for notebooks without a...

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New page: '''Summary''' This year, the paper proceedings are not longer printed. Only the cdrom proceedings are produced using a card-type USB memory stick. It is convenient for notebooks without a...

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'''Summary'''

This year, the paper proceedings are not longer printed. Only the cdrom
proceedings are produced using a card-type USB memory stick. It is
convenient for notebooks without a big cdrom drive but with a tiny USB
interface. It is also convenient to put it into one's pocket since its small
size. The memory card can also be re-used to hold one's notes taken during
the conference. We hope that people will like it.

This year, we continuously use the START wrapper of ACLPUB. It is glad to
notice that all book chairs (except the tutorial chairs) use the START
wrapper directly to compile the proceedings. The START wrapper implements
typical ACLPUB make options for producing a single-volume proceeding.
Therefore, it is convenient for generating a single-volume proceeding if its
input is well-formed, and if the proceeding is not going to be divided into
multiple volumes. Besides, the START wrapper has now provided a function to
upload conventional ACLPUB order files. Therefore, the Schedule can be
directly uploaded and easily setup this year.

'''Problems and Suggestions'''

Obviously we encounter some difficulties in using the START wrapper because
many of the book chairs are unfamiliar with it. Basically, there are too
many templates and the book chairs need to modify those scripts directly.
This causes lots of questions which we have to address. One big problem is
that it is difficult for the book chairs to easily locate the errors and
figure out what they are. Especially, some of them are very tricky and
absent from the manual, e.g. the tiny deviation of margins and that Bibtxt
URLs should end with %02d or %03d due to naming conventions. A better START
wrapper is necessary to ease the book chairs and the publication process.

Besides, the inherent limitations of ACLPUB still leave the book chairs some
problems to resolve manually. Some problems are quite tricky. For instance,
one author has a symbol "#" in the title, but obviously this symbol is one
of the reserved words in Latex. It causes a serious error and confuses us
for a long time.
Finally, we hope that the authors can conform to the style files strictly
next year and double-check when submitting their final versions, especially
when their papers include non-English words.

The START administrator, Rich Gerber, has been very helpful in answering
questions regarding the START wrapper and ACLPUB. He has resolved many
problems that had not been considered when the wrapper was initially
implemented.

Actually, the publication progress of earlier stages for workshops is a
little slow because some workshop chairs are unaware of those customized
templates. So it is necessary to give them a simple list of actions to be
done. The current instruction manual is too complicated.

2011Q3 Reports: Publications Chairs - Revision history

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