When you submit your paper through the START online system, you will be asked to electronically sign ACL's standard Copyright Transfer Agreement on behalf of all authors. The agreement is shown below.
If your workshop is not using the START system, your workshop chair will ask you to send a signed hardcopy of the agreement. A printable version may be downloaded here.
Before signing either version, please confirm with your co-authors (and, if applicable, your and their employers) that they authorize you to sign on their behalf.
Copyright to the above work (including, without limitation, the right to publish the work in whole or in part in any and all forms and media, now or hereafter known) is hereby transferred to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the date of this agreement, on the understanding that the work has been accepted for presentation at a meeting sponsored by the ACL and for publication in the proceedings of that meeting. However, each of the authors and the employers for whom the work was performed reserve all other rights, specifically including the following: (1) All proprietary rights other than copyright and publication rights transferred to ACL; (2) The right to publish in a journal or collection or to be used in future works of the author's own (such as articles or books) all or part of this work, provided that acknowledgment is given to the ACL and a full citation to its publication in the particular proceedings is included; (3) The right to make oral presentation of the material in any forum; (4) The right to make copies of the work for internal distribution within the author's organization and for external distribution as a preprint, reprint, technical report, or related class of document. In the case of a work prepared under a government contract, if the contract so requires, that government may reproduce all or portions of the article and may authorize others to do so, for official government purposes only.
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