Submission Guidelines

The EACL has released policies for submission, review and citation. More information is here. EACL SRW 2021 will adhere to these policies and guidelines.

Submissions should:

Be relevant: Submissions to EACL SRW 2021 should be relevant to the audience.
Be original: The content of submissions to EACL SRW 2021 (the ideas, the findings, the results and the words) should be original; that is, they cannot be published material (or material accepted for publication) in another refereed, archival form (such as a book, a journal, or conference proceedings). Authors are referred to the latest EACL author guidelines for additional information on what constitutes existing publication.

Authors may present preliminary versions of their work from other venues that are not refereed or not archival (e.g. course reports, theses, non-archival workshops, or preprint servers such as arXiv.org). Authors should list all such previous presentations in the submission form.

The first author of the papers **MUST BE** a student.

Pre-submission Mentoring Procedure

Paper drafts for pre-submission mentoring should be sent in the PDF format before 2nd October 2020.

Pre-submission mentoring is not anonymous. The mentor will not review the final submission. Papers sent for pre-submission mentoring but not submitted via the electronic system (see the instructions below) by 27th November 2020 will not be reviewed.

The complete list of important dates are the main page.

For details on mentoring procedure see the mentoring page.

Submission Procedure

All papers consist of up to five (5) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, papers will be given six (6) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewer's comments in their final versions. Submissions must conform to the specifications of EACL 2021 call for papers regarding multiple submissions and preparing papers for the double-blind review process.

Paper submissions must use the official EACL 2021 style templates.

Style sheets (Latex, Word) are available here: https://2021.eacl.org/downloads/eacl2021-templates.zip

The Overleaf template is also available here:https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/eacl-2021-proceedings-template/jprrhhtnbrrm.

All submissions must be in PDF format and must conform to the official style guidelines, which are contained in these template files.

Please submit using the START conference system: https://www.softconf.com/eacl2021/SRW/.

Anonymity Period

The following rules and guidelines are meant to protect the integrity of double-blind review and ensure that submissions are reviewed fairly. The rules make reference to the anonymity period, which runs from 1 month before the submission deadline (starting October 27, 2020 11:59PM UTC-12:00) up to the date when your paper is either accepted, rejected, or withdrawn (January 22, 2021).

You may not make a non-anonymized version of your paper available online to the general community (for example, via a preprint server) during the anonymity period. By a version of a paper we understand another paper having essentially the same scientific content but possibly differing in minor details (including title and structure) and/or in length (e.g., an abstract is a version of the paper that it summarizes).
If you have posted a non-anonymized version of your paper online before the start of the anonymity period, you may submit an anonymized version to the conference. The submitted version must not refer to the non-anonymized version, and you must inform the program chair(s) that a non-anonymized version exists.
You may not update the non-anonymized version during the anonymity period, and we ask you not to advertise it on social media or take other actions that would further compromise double-blind reviewing during the anonymity period.
Note that, while you are not prohibited from making a non-anonymous version available online before the start of the anonymity period, this does make double-blind reviewing more difficult to maintain, and we therefore encourage you to wait until the end of the anonymity period if possible. Alternatively, you may consider submitting your work to the Computational Linguistics journal, which does not require anonymization and has a track for “short” (i.e., conference-length) papers.

Instructions for Double-Blind Review

As reviewing will be double-blind, papers must not include authors’ names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references or links (such as github) that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.

Papers should not refer, for further detail, to documents that are not available to the reviewers. For example, do not omit or redact important citation information to preserve anonymity. Instead, use third person or named reference to this work, as described above (“Smith showed” rather than “we showed”). Papers may be accompanied by a resource (software and/or data) described in the paper, but these resources should be anonymized as well. Authorship

The author list for submissions should include all (and only) individuals who made substantial contributions to the work presented. Each author listed on a submission to EACL 2021 SRW will be notified of submissions, revisions and the final decision. No changes to the order or composition of authorship may be made to submissions to EACL 2021 SRW after the paper submission deadline.

Citation and Comparison

You are expected to cite all refereed publications relevant to your submission, but you may be excused for not knowing about all unpublished work (especially work that has been recently posted and/or is not widely cited). In cases where a preprint has been superseded by a refereed publication, the refereed publication should be cited instead of the preprint version. Papers (whether refereed or not) appearing less than 3 months before the submission deadline are considered contemporaneous to your submission, and you are therefore not obliged to make detailed comparisons that require additional experimentation and/or in-depth analysis.

For more information, see the ACL Policies for Submission, Review, and Citation

Multiple Submission Policy

Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must indicate this at submission time. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at EACL SRW 2021 must notify the program chairs whether the paper will be presented.

All accepted papers must be presented at the workshop in order for them to appear in the proceedings. We will not accept for publication or presentation papers that overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere.

Double submission to the EACL SRW and the main EACL conference/other EACL workshops is prohibited.

In the case of two different submissions, the authors must ensure that these submissions do not overlap significantly (> 75%) with each other in content or results.

Reviewing Procedure

The reviewing of the papers will be double-blind, so submission should not contain author information or self-identifying citations.

Reviewing will be managed by the Student Workshop Co-Chairs and a team of reviewers on the Program Committee. Each submission will be matched with a mixed panel of student and senior researchers for review. The final acceptance decision will be based on the results of the review.