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Frequent formatting problems

Please provide your paper in the form in which it should appear in the book. However, since the review process is double blind, please do not indicate the author names or any information that may disclose the authors' identity. Instead, please leave blank space between the title and the abstract of the size necessary to later fill in the names and affiliations. Obviously, in the camera-ready version you should indicate the names.

Please strictly follow the. We cannot guarantee publication of any paper that does not follow these guidelines. Please do not hesitate to ask us any questions (see the contact options here).

The following are frequent formatting problems:

1.     Word users: Do not underline email addresses or URLs, and do not write them in blue font. If Word does this automatically, try selecting Edit | Undo or pressing Ctrl-Z when it does so, or better disable this in Tools | Autocorrect Options.

2.     All figures, tables, formulas, etc., must be within margins. We will not be able to include papers that do not meet this requirement.

4.     Please do not leave unused space on the pages (such as the one that appears in Word before a large figure that does not fit in the rest of the page). Try moving your figures if they cause unused space. Avoid if possible the last page being filled less than to 1/3.

5.     No section title should be the last line on the page. Avoid widow and orphan lines.

6.     All section titles must be First Letter Capitalized.

7.     Figure captions must be below the figure; table captions must be above the table (especially important for TeX users). Both figures and tables should be centered.

8.     Do not use colors in figures: they will not be visible in paper book. Especially in Excel drawings, a blue and a red line will look in print exactly the same, and a yellow or cyan line will not be visible at all. In Excel drawings, eliminate the outer frame and make the background white (not grey), see the picture below. For homogenous look of the book, please format the tables, whenever it does not cause difficulties in understanding the table, with only three thin horizontal lines:

Incorrect:   
               
   Collection   R   P   F       
  Reuters  0.6   0.8   0.7   
  CACM   0.7   0.7   0.7   
  BNC  0.8   0.6   0.7   
  Penn  0.9   0.5   0.8   
           
     
                          
                         
                         
                         
                         
                                                   
                         
 
                                                
                         
                         
                         
                         
                             
                         
           

Correct:   
               
   Collection   R   P   F       
  Reuters  0.6   0.8   0.7   
  CACM   0.7   0.7   0.7   
  BNC  0.8   0.6   0.7   
  Penn  0.9   0.5   0.8   
           
 
                                                
                         
                         
                         
                         
                             
                         
or
                                                
              ///          
    ||||       |||| \\\   :::      
  ::: |||| ///   ::: |||| ///   ::: ||||    
  ::: |||| \\\   ::: |||| \\\   ::: ||||    
    ::: |||| ///   ::: |||| ///   ::: |||| ///    
                         

9.     If the title of your paper does not fit in one line, please divide it into logical parts (with Shift-Enter in Word, or \\ in TeX):

Incorrect:

A Method of Calculation of Semantic Word
Distance

 

 

Correct:

A Method of Calculation of
Semantic Word Distance

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