[What If I Didn't Use START for Collecting Papers] - Jing-Shin Chang (jshin@csie.ncnu.edu.tw) - Revised from: 2009/06/04 12:24 - http://nlp.csie.ncnu.edu.tw/~shin/acl-ijcnlp2009/publication/howto/What.If.I.Dont.Use.START.submission.system.txt - Online version: - Last Update: 2010/5/24 - http://nlp.csie.ncnu.edu.tw/~shin/acl2010/publication/howto/aclpub/What.If.I.Dont.Use.START.submission.system.html The ACLPUB tool was desinged to compile proceedings based on the PDF files & metadata files dumpped from the START submission system. If you are not using START to collect your papers, you may create a tar file (call it "final.tgz") to simulate the submissions dumpped from the START submission system, then use the ACLPUB tools for compiling the proceedings. It is possible to use manual approach & Acrobat Writer to compile the proceedings. However, ACL main conference and most workshops are now using ACLPUB for compilation since it automates most compilation steps. It will also make our proceedings (10+ books) to look unified in styles. The tar file dumpped from START includes two files in each subdirectory for each individual submission. For example, for paper id 173, it includes final/173/173_Paper.pdf // PDF formatted papers final/173/173_metadata.txt // Text metadata containing paper/author information) The metadata file includes paper/author information like titles, authors, emails, number of pages... It looks like the following with "#=%=#" as delimiter for separating Key and Value about a paper: SubmissionNumber#=%=#173 FinalPaperTitle#=%=#My XXX Model for SMT ShortPaperTitle#=%=#My XXX Model for SMT Author{1}{Lastname}#=%=#Chang Author{1}{Firstname}#=%=#Jing-Shin Author{1}{Email}#=%=#jshin@csie.ncnu.edu.tw Author{1}{Affiliation}#=%=#National Chi Nan University, Taiwan, ROC Author{2}{Lastname}#=%=# Author{2}{Firstname}#=%=# Author{2}{Email}#=%=# Author{2}{Affiliation}#=%=# Author{...}{Lastname}#=%=# Author{...}{Firstname}#=%=# Author{...}{Email}#=%=# Author{...}{Affiliation}#=%=# Author{15}{Lastname}#=%=# Author{15}{Firstname}#=%=# Author{15}{Email}#=%=# Author{15}{Affiliation}#=%=# NumberOfPages#=%=#9 CopyrightSigned#=%=#Jing-Shin Chang JobTitle#==# Organization#==#NLP & MT Labs National Chi Nan University 1, University Road, Puli, Nantou 545, Taiwan, ROC Abstract#==#This paper proposes a novel framework called XXX Model for SMT... ========== (The trailing '==========' is part of the metadata.) You can copy the above template and fill in appropriate data for each paper, then create a paper collection that is compliant to the START/ACLPUB underlying formats. Some of the fields can be ommitted or be given faked data since they may not be used in compiling proceedings. You will need such information to generate TOC and author indexes, and bib's. It should not be difficult to derive the above form of metadata for each paper and continue to work with ACLPUB to automatically generate TOC, author indexes with very little cost.